[Vision2020] Hmmm . . .

Wed Feb 20 08:48:19 PST 2013

Wow.  I completely missed the Monkees reference.  My only excuse is that I haven't had my customary gallon of Mountain Dew yet this morning.

Paul

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 From: Gary Crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com>
To: Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> 
Cc: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hmmm . . .

Now you're just monkeeing around.

g

From: Sunil Ramalingam 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:07 PM
Cc: vision 2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hmmm . . .

The premise of your post was that he was breaking into homes when 
people were there. Now you're inventing his motive to kill you. No, if he saw 
your face, he'd be a believer, not a killer.

Sunil

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 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:56:57 -0800
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: 
[Vision2020] Hmmm . . .

It didn't say he was.  If he did, though, 
I'd want to be able to protect myself if he ran across me in a home he thought 
was empty and he got it through his head that I had to die because I'd seen his 
face.  Or maybe he's desperate, and now he's willing to try hitting a house 
that is occupied but looks like he could rob it regardless.

It's a tool 
of preparedness.  I'd rather not assume that he's harmless if he's breaking 
into houses and robbing them.  If my assumption is wrong, I could 
die.  I'd rather not throw away my chance at survival because "OMG!  
Guns are bad!"

It doesn't mean, by the way, that I'd just shoot this guy 
for breaking into my house.  But a loaded weapon is a good deterrent, and 
if it turns out my life is at stake, I'd rather have a gun than a shoe I could 
throw at him, or whatever I happened to have at hand.

This isn't rocket 
science.  Be prepared.  It's the good old Boy Scout motto.   
I also have a smoke detector and a fire extinguisher.

Don't let the "guns 
are killing our kids!" narrative drive your views.

Paul

On 
02/19/2013 10:43 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:

>Paul,
>
>Where does it say he's breaking into homes when 
  people are in? I had a lot of burglary cases, and my mistakenly charged 
  clients were usually alleged to have entered homes when no one was there. Lots 
  easier to leave with stuff that way, said the 
authorities.
>
>Sunil
>
>
>
>________________________________
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:02:25 -0800
>From: godshatter at yahoo.com
>To: thansen at moscow.com
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: 
  [Vision2020] Hmmm . . .
>
>
>
>What's paranoid about locking up when you're 
  out and being ready to defend yourself when you're at home when there is a 
  known burglar in the area?  Being prepared is not the same thing as being 
  paranoid.  If someone is crazy enough to break into your home while you 
  are there, you can go ahead and classify that as a situation fraught with 
  danger, in which case having some means to protect yourself might be called 
  for.  There are plenty of reasonable scenarios where a would-be burglar 
  happens upon a member of the household when he thought the place was empty 
  that could end up very badly for the person he stumbled upon.  If the 
  burglar knew you were at home and invaded the home anyway, then you've 
  definitely got a problem if you are happily unarmed.
>
>Better to have 
  that gun when you need it than not.  If guns frighten you, which I find 
  hard to believe because of your military background, then at least pick up a 
  good aluminum baseball bat.
>
>Do you think I'm paranoid because I keep a 
  set of jumper cables in my trunk in case my battery dies and I need a jump 
  from a kind stranger?  Are you one of those people that joyously flit 
  from situation to situation relying on the gods to keep you out of 
  trouble?
>
>Paul
>
>On 02/19/2013 01:18 PM, Tom Hansen 
wrote:
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>
>>
>>Paranoia . . . self-destroya.
>>
>>
>>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>>
>>"Moscow Cares"
>>http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>  
>>Tom "Proud to be a Filthy Liberal Scum" Hansen
>>Moscow, Idaho
>>
>>
>>"There's room at the top they are  telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you  kill 
>>If you want to be like the folks on the  hill."
>>
>>
>>- John Lennon
>> 
>> 
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