Guns will protect you from tsunamis.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by yesman065

1) No society is composed of Joe Average - but the laws should be designed to benefit the many, not the few.

And uncessesary laws shouldn't be designed at all, they should be forgotten.

Joe Average may be Christian, shall we forbid all other religions? Or only shall we only require that someone show a "realistic purpose" to their religion, and prove that they're not going to go "a bit overboard"?

Originally Posted by yesman065

2) I planned on taking my son out to a local club for firearms safety training, but decided against it for a number of reasons.

Why?

Originally Posted by yesman065

3) I meant accidents, as in a child or other person unfamiliar with firearms getting their hands on one. Like one of my children or their friends, nieces, nephews, neighbors - whomever. Nothing more "sinister" no need to be paranoid.

I don't think I'm being paranoid, I just wanted to know why you put quotes around the word, surely a reasonable question. Why did you do that?

"I wanted to avoid accidents." carries a very different meaning from "I wanted to avoid 'accidents'"; your use of scare quotes carries the implication that what you feared wouldn't actually be accidental.

[yesman065]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

I don't think I'm being paranoid, I just wanted to know why you put quotes around the word, surely a reasonable question. Why did you do that? "I wanted to avoid accidents." carries a very different meaning from "I wanted to avoid 'accidents'"; your use of scare quotes carries the implication that what you feared wouldn't actually be accidental.

Because accidents do happen. Thats all nothing more. Please don't try and read into what I write just read what is written.

And I chose not to take my son hunting because his grades were not what we discussed for him to EARN the right to do things like that.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by yesman065

Because accidents do happen. Thats all nothing more. Please don't try and read into what I write just read what is written.

I *read* what was written, and it was unclear; that's not my fault. "Because accidents do happen" does not explain your use of quote marks, which is what I was asking about. Were the quote marks an error?