<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">William Flynn Wallace, I would recommend for your wife any of the new breed of high quality compact 9mm handguns. A few hours surfing and researching will result in several good candidates for her. <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Be careful and work out a system so that you and your wife don't end up accidentally shooting each other!</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Definitely get training together on the safety and use of firearms. Include yourself even if you are a veteran or at least already knowledgeable about guns.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> And if you have not already, have a good home security system in place, with full cctv coverage of your property. And having a dog can help, too.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Be safe! Be smart! Take care!<br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John : )</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2194126204908813458WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>….I don’t see why you should leave out suicide; if you have an argument with your spouse and then shoot yourself in the head, that is a serious problem.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Stathis Papaioannou<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I do see why that should be a separate category. Suicide accounts for a large percentage of death by firearm. If I decide I want to end it all, then that is my choice. It isn’t the fault of the gun or the fact that I have one. There are legitimate reasons why people make that choice, and I respect their choice. Of all the ways to finish oneself, I would think that method would be the least painful.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding statistics: things change. Because of the verdict in today’s trial, life in the USA just became dramatically more dangerous. Police everywhere in the USA will be seriously rethinking their career choices. We can easily anticipate that plenty of them will say adios amigo to the force. Result: they will be less likely to come to your aid in a timely manner should the bad guy come to visit. One can scarcely blame them: their job was already dangerous enough. Add to that the legal liability in the event they make a mistake, law enforcement is a lousy career choice.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Result: we the people need to be ready to carry out homeland security ourselves. But this carries at least one advantage: far faster response time.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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