<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Won't an insane person with a gun just shoot his gun buddy first? Who wants to be gun buddies with a trigger happy fellow about to go postal? On the other side, Bonnie and Clyde and the boys at Combine were gun buddies, they did it together. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Vision2020 discussions <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:22 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Guns and the Buddy Principle<BR></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>People who enjoy swimming underwater often use devices called SCUBA, an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, to allow themselves more depth and time under the surface. More prudent and safer SCUBA
users only dive in pairs, so each person can be the <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>other's</SPAN> safety buddy. Dive buddy presence yields safer diving and fewer accidents.<BR><BR>I suspect that if people who enjoy using guns were to only use guns in pairs, so that each person in the pair could be the <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>other's</SPAN> safety buddy, Americans would suffer fewer gun accidents, and lower rates of conscious malicious gun usage and outright murder with firearms. If dual-person firearms usage were to become a cultural norm, and were single-person gun usage, outside of a demonstrable, and reported, safety emergency mandating gun usage, required to be investigated by a local court analogous to a coroner's jury (regardless whether a death occurred), I further suspect that gun related injuries and deaths could be significantly reduced.<BR><BR>Analogous to dive buddies, trigger buddies could prevent injuries and save lives,
and be able to say to themselves and others that their interest in firearms can be put to productive public use. NRA members should be eager to volunteer as trigger buddies. In the absence of their eagerness to volunteer, public policy might provide some encouragement to participate in public service.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> http://www.fsr.net<BR> <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>