I Feel For You
I really do.

But I'm a gun-control nut. I don't think there's any reason, ever, for a private citizen to have guns in their home.

But I'm all in favour for privately owned guns to be held, very securely, in a gun club, where the owners can blaze away at whatever they feel like. If the weapons are held at a gun club then I don't see the point of any restrictions. You can own and shoot what you like. 'Cos guns are cool as fuck as long as you're not actually killing something/body.

But the gun laws in Britain, strict as they are, should be stricter. A lot of people I know own shotguns as they're farmers.

Have you seen what a shotgun can do when used by someone who's grown up with them....?

Legless Edit: By a spooky coincidence I've just been looking at the x-ray of some poor 22 year old who accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot. It's a fucking mess. Three toes are just powder and the other one is shattered in several places. The contamination from the lead shot is immense, a lot of the shot broke up and is now tiny fragments suffusing the tissue. The actual wound is a fairly small entry wound, indicating that the barrel must have been really close to his foot, but the exit wound is a fucking crater. He doesn't have much left of the sole of his foot.

The only bright spot is that he still has a completely intact big toe. Another plus is that he still has blood supply to what's left of his toes but fuck knows how they can repair or reconstruct what's left. My bet is partial amputation. He'll have a big toe and half a foot.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Aug 2008, 15:00, Reply)