[thechat] Bowling for Columbine

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon Jan 27 02:07:01 CST 2003


On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Erik Mattheis wrote:

> On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 04:02 PM, isaac wrote:
> > My favourite part of Bowling for Columbine was Chris Rock's comedic
> > routine
> > about the price of bullets.
>
> The opening line to the routine was classic: "Guns don't kill people,
> bullets kill people!"
>
> On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Ken Kogler wrote:
> > You don't see people keeping bows/arrows for self-defense, do you?
>
> Have to admit I don't know of any instances, but lots of people keep
> baseball bats and such in handy locations for such a purpose.

Indeed. Don't know about US law, but here we have the concept of
'reasonable force' which you're permitted to use to defend yourself and
your property.

Generally, I consider attacking someone with a (by design) lethal weapon
to be unreasonable.

Cheers
Martin

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