Re[2]: [at-l] weight/use efficiency & Guns

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> "... HYOH doesn't seem to apply to this topic. " 
> (guns on the trail)
> 
>  Perhaps because a lot of innocent people are 
> killed by gun accidents each year
> -- certainly more than by marauding bears, maybe 
> more than by criminals. And
> perhaps, because carrying a gun on much of the 
> trail is illegal, i.e. a criminal
> offense. Some of us prefer not to hike in the 
> company of law breakers -- well at
> least those who carry around lethal weapons.
> 
>  Weary

Ok...  Sorry...  I tried not to, but here it is:

"My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car."

Anybody carry matches in a no burn zone?

Shane