Reply #28: and how about [View All]

... if he had pulled out the gun and "accidentally" shot HIS WIFE in the leg rather than himself, and it had been HIS WIFE who died rather than him?

I'm sure you know the answer. If he had just followed those four rules or whatever they were, his wife wouldn't be dead.

If the dog hadn't stopped to pee, it would have caught the rabbit.

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

If some idiot hadn't broken the rules of firearm safety, somebody else wouldn't be dead.

The damned thing is, somebody always seems to be dead -- very often not the person who broke the bloody rules.

A lot of people seem to want to overlook that little problem. Person A broke the rules -- PERSON B DIED. People who break the rules of firearm safety very often are not risking their own death or injury, THEY ARE RISKING OTHER PEOPLE'S.

But hey, if somebody else dies, it's the dummy's fault. That's all we need to say, as I understand it. We've figured out where to lay the blame, and that is all that matters. Don't you watch Jerry Springer??

So I vote that we make anthrax generally available, at a low price, to anyone who wants to experiment with it. If somebody breaks the rules of safe anthrax handling and dies as a result, well, it's his/her own damn fault. If SOMEBODY ELSE dies as a result, well, it's the dummy's fault. Why should anybody else care?

Forgive me. I'm sure they all care, truly and madly and deeply. Just not enough to agree to do anything about it. No, their "rights" are just so much more important than other people's lives. And that's the bottom line.

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