Richard Casady ha scritto:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:26:36 -0400, "Dean A. Markley"
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:32 -0700 (PDT), george
wrote:

On Aug 22, 6:10 am, "William Black"
wrote:
"Rob Arndt" wrote in message

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So what? Sounds like Condi has more ****ing balls than you do. What do
you do when a hunter with a rifle encounters a hostile bear? Drop his
gun and get into the fetal position hoping it will just sniff around
you and leave? No, you aim and shoot the ****er dead.

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That's great, right up to when you realise that the bear has a gun too,
and so does his wife and his kids.

I can't work out as to why his only solution to a wild animal is to
destroy it.
The simile is absurd
Of the critters in North America, only bears, possibly moose, are
dangerous enough to occasionally need shooting in self defence. All
the rest get a pass unless one needs to eat them. [I haven't shot any
game in about thirty years.]

Casady
Disagree. Ever have a Northern Banded Watersnake come at you? Not big,
not poisonous but mean and scary as all hell.

Don't need a gun to kill one. It's a small snake not a Cape Buffalo. I
would hit it with my stick and not draw even if I was carrying. If it
is moving it would be a difficult target. Unless you are expecting a
war, the defence gun will likely be a pistol. A snake is a difficult
target for a gun and dead easy for a cane.

Pleaseeee..... I have haved here "close & personal" disagreement between
me, Vipers (Aspis) and my pickaxe handle and I can assure that isn't an
easy fight, because the basic tactics, somewhat opposite the "cross the
T" (you must be alongside, having more target area to aim and out of the
bite arc) are too well understood by these little, fast & nimbly 10"-14"
long reptilians whose countermanouvre really too well and in many cases
you must jump sideways to avoid the bite to the bare foot (here in
southern Italy you really need to wear sandals or even be barefoot
indoors, trust me...)

It's a really nonsense that here in Italy the "DDs" (that's, porcupines
& the tiny European hedgehogs) can't be privately owned, even if you
have a really large garden...

(Now the fellow s.m.n.ers surely understand why I have my peculiar
opinion on the whole counter-speedboat tactics & equipment issue..)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.