# Guns and 6 year olds..... (in response to Jab1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 2, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669 "2000-03-02T23:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freedomx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4af34b/32.png) [@Freedomx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedomx)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669/101 "2000-03-09T04:39:00Z")

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I would buy one, and I think you would see many people start carrying them for self-defense. My big concern with any electronics in a gun is the possibility of someone making up some device that jams all the guns withing a certain radius.

So in your example, I will assume they have a fail safe weapon with no battery problems. 🙂

However, until the government turned in and destroyed all it’s lethal weapons, I would still support the right of the people to own guns.

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**Author:** ![Edward\_J\_Cunningham\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@Edward\_J\_Cunningham\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_J_Cunningham_1)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669/102 "2000-03-09T11:10:00Z")

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What truly scares me about this tragedy is that this **isn’t** the case of a kid bringing his Dad’s gun in to show and tell and the gun accidentally firing. The six-year old in question threatened the other girl’s life, so it looks like he **INTENDED** to kill her. If it had not been a gun, maybe he would have done it with a knife.

Twenty one years ago, _Halloween_ was just a movie. Now we have Michael Myers in the flesh. That truly scares me.

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**Author:** ![Glitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glitch)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669/103 "2000-03-09T13:43:00Z")

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Jab: Couldn’t you order Ayoob’s “The Truth About Self Protection” from the local bookstore?

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**Author:** ![Freedomx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4af34b/32.png) [@Freedomx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freedomx)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-and-6-year-olds-in-response-to-jab1/17669/104 "2000-03-09T14:33:00Z")

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From other posts, I think Jab is on a serious budget. That is why he was looking for it in the library.

Hey Jab,

When my library doesn’t have it I use Barnes and Nobles 🙂 They have a better selection anyway. I skim through tons of books there that I would never get a chance to read if I had to buy them.

If you buy a coffee and cake, you can even feel justified 🙂

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