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Professors, phd holders, do they practice the 2nd Amen.(2 lng, cnt spel)?
Even a NRA member like Michael Moore?
Even a NRA member like Michael Moore?
Adyssa said:Out of interest, how many times has he had to defend himself with the gun?
Wrt the title question, yes. But, in my experience, most of the highly educated people I know don't bother owning guns. I think that that's primarily due to the fact that they tend to live in safe, upscale neighborhoods (the sorts of places where you can actually walk around at night unarmed and not worry about getting mugged).Alex_Sanders said:Professors, phd holders, do they practice the 2nd Amen.(2 lng, cnt spel)?
ThomasT said:tend to live in safe, upscale neighborhoods (the sorts of places where you can actually walk around at night unarmed and not worry about getting mugged).
I have no idea about that. I would guess that there could be quite a lot of them. I just don't know any.Pythagorean said:They must also lack the motive of hunting.
Alex_Sanders said:Professors, phd holders, do they practice the 2nd Amen.(2 lng, cnt spel)?
Even a NRA member like Michael Moore?
Well, you live in the country, right? That's different. I'd have a few guns, and maybe a lot more, if I lived 20 minutes from nearest response.turbo said:I don't consider myself "highly educated", but I live at least 20 minutes away from a nearest response. I'd rather have a couple of loaded pistols at the ready than not be prepared. I hunt with a single-shot rifle because I want to be sure and humane when killing a deer, so it's not like I'm some nut blazing away when I see a deer. I have spent too much time tracking wounded deer for others, and eventually I stopped doing that. It seems like that encouraged ###holes to blaze away with no clean kill-shot and no respect for the deer.
A doctor and a lawyer. Yeah, that qualifies as highly educated, albeit in a niche sense. But then, I suppose that's characteristic of all high education.turbo said:A couple of people that I knew as a kid (fathers of close friends) were reloaders. They wouldn't buy new ammunition when they could could reload their own. One of the fathers was a doctor and the other was the only lawyer in town. They weren't ignorant people. They would sometimes spend quiet evenings in their basements resizing shell casings, re-loading shot shells, etc. They might not have been the smartest people in town, but they had the most college education.
I don't shoot bears because I don't eat them. I have had bear steaks and roasts (thanks to neighbors when I was a kid), but that meat doesn't compare with venison. I am a still-hunter, so I see more potential game than most people in the woods, but I still won't shoot a bear.fluidistic said:Hi turbo,
have you ever shot a bear? My cousins have a country house a few km away from Maine's fronteer (in Québec). The neighboor has shot bears and many other animals I think... but he worked in the wild forest.
It's always a good idea to stay away from any large "mama" when they have little ones. Not just bears, but moose, too. A very large protective mother can be dangerous, so it's best to give them room.fluidistic said:I see, thank you very much.
P.S.:In Québec they warn people about bears when the mothers get the children. Apparently they can be aggressive during this period (I don't remember if it was automn). When you're alone in a forest and in front of such a bear, I guess it's always good to have a weapon, just in case.
alexg said:Besides, target shooting is fun.
I went to one of the best engineering and science schools in the US, and we had both rifle and handgun teams. (as well as a fencing team).
mathwonk said:Basically there are two points of view on this: there are those who believe there are good and bad people, and that the good people need weapons to protect themselves from the bad people. There is some truth to this of course.
But then there are those who believe there are calm people and angry people, and that when people get angry it is better if they are not armed. There is also some truth to this.
Alex_Sanders said:Yes, one of the best, let's see:
MIT
Stanford
UCB
UIUC
GT, TA&M, MSU,SCU, UCLA...
did I hit anything?