Hello Brian....nice approach.  We in Arizona are very fortunate to have a balanced attitude toward firearms and their application in the great outdoor.  Have no grudge toward any I might encounter on the trails and if I happen to be packing, as is usual away from the urban areas, would hope all would remember that.  Somehow I perceived the overstatements in the humorous light that I would hope they were intended. 
 
Sorry about the grim encounter couple days back.  Christmas should be a joyous time...we owe it to the kids.  I'm back to the sidelines!
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From: Brian Casteel
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: It's THAT season

I agree with Gale.  But jokes about the use of firearms for anything (despite humorous intent) is something that shouldn't be done.  In some cases, it can be strong evidence to support a belief that a person might not be responsible enough to be in possession of a weapon for fear that one of those comments might be acted upon.

I'm not saying that Sprocket fits that profile, because I don't know him well enough to make such an accusation, nor would I do so in this type of venue.  I would hope that if anything like this were to happen with anyone on the listserv, that enough maturity would be displayed by contacting the person directly instead of going out to the proverbial playground and handling it with everyone watching.

But then again, everyone at some point is going to be offended by something, and even dead silence would be offensive to someoene who really likes to talk.

Brian
Team A.I.


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> From: Gale <sonoralovesmommy@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2003/12/03 Wed PM 06:06:00 EST
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> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: It's THAT season
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> Well Im not offended, but I am saddened by the callousness of the words. Four years ago, a family member was kidnapped and shot twice in the head by a low life vermin. Three years ago, Mike's cousin was shot an killed by a drug addict who flipped out and killed her in her sheep pasture. Joking about shooting or wounding someone is rather insensitive to the growing number of people whose lives are forever changed by violent crime. But feel free to continue with your jokes. America is a great country and we have great freedoms to speak out as we wish.
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>   On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
> "Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
>   "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
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Well Im not offended, but I am saddened by the callousness of the words. Four years ago, a family member was kidnapped and shot twice in the head by a low life vermin. Three years ago, Mike's cousin was shot an killed by a drug addict who flipped out and killed her in her sheep pasture. Joking about shooting or wounding someone is rather insensitive to the growing number of people whose lives are forever changed by violent crime. But feel free to continue with your jokes. America is a great country and we have great freedoms to speak out as we wish.


Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
 
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
  On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
  "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
 
Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898

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