BJT Pair for Push-Pull, 1W, 33V, 200mA, 1MHz (& maybe no heatsink)?

patentable.

Pffttt. We had a murder here a year ago ! A druggie 'fell' off a tall building. The news is still carrying it.

Graham

Is "gun free" desirable?

...Jim Thompson

(Please allow me to add some more bait to your hook... ;-) )

It probably is desirable for the predatory types of people, since it makes their "work-environments" less dangerous. And it's probably desirable for the Leftist/Democrat/Socialist types of people, who seem to not want to *trust* the rest of us with firearms. (Gee... Could that be because [if they ever regain control of the government] they want to do things that they fear will tend to cause most of us to want to overthrow the government? Or is it simply yet-another "issue" that they think they can use to try to instill fear in "the masses", so they can come up with yet-another "program" that might enable them to buy more votes using our money? Or..., why? [Or, perhaps they're thinking using incorrect "simulation-models" of people and society, etc etc, which may mean they're just not intelligent-enough. But that might be being way too kind to some of them.].)

I think of the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) as the "reboot" button for the Constitution, put in there by people who had just finished overthrowing their government, using firearms, so that we would always have the same option. It's one of the feedback loops, to keep the government from straying too far from where we want them. Just knowing that tens of millions or more of us are well-armed helps to keep them in line.

The right to protect oneself and one's family (and anyone else, I would say), using deadly force or firearms, seems even more obviously proper and right, and inalienable. Luckily for me, the State of Indiana just changed our concealed-carry law so that concealed-carry handgun permits are now issued for life, instead of for only four years. (Thank you, Republicans.) They're valid everywhere except on commercial airliners. And normally they "must" issue one to you, unless you have a felony arrest record.

Where I live (a town of about 12,000), virtually every household has at least several guns. And there hasn't been a homicide with a firearm (or even an intentional injury using one, as far as I know) for over

Obviously, widespread posession of firearms by the citizenry does not correlate with increased crime, or with firearms-related violence. So, some other things must be "the determining factors", for that.

At any rate, regarding whether it's better for a society to be "gun free" or not (with the goal of having less crime, I assume): Just off the top of my head, it's easier for me to imagine eventually having fewer criminals in a society where *everyone* has a gun, since, assuming that initially there are far fewer criminals than non-criminals, the worst criminals would tend to eventually all get shot and killed. And the not-quite-as-bad ones, and the smarter ones, would tend to quit risking getting shot and killed, by not committing as many crimes. Steady-state would be a society with little crime and lots of rarely-used guns. (Of course, I'm sure that that won't seem like a good idea, at all, to someone who doesn't trust "you and me" with guns. But, if their own mother, for example, were old and living alone in a dangerous ghetto, I bet they'd want HER to be able to have a gun.)

So, should it be "gun free", or "free guns for everyone"?

Carry on.

- Tom Gootee

We had a situation here in the past year...

Armed burglar on Meth literally *breaks* into a home by kicking in a rear window.

Home is occupied by a grandmother and a mother and female child.

"Grandma" grabs up her Colt and shoots burglar and he goes down.

Mother calls 911...

Scenario pretty much...

Mother: "Burglar broke in, shot."

Burglar tries to get up, "Grandma" shoots him again.

Mother: "Screaming"

Burglar tries to get up again, "Grandma" shoots him yet again.

On and on like that until officers arrive.

The 911 tape was hilarious!

The turkey lived, BTW... Grandma shot him only in the limbs... wish our cops could shoot as good ;-)

Grandma was not charged.

...Jim Thompson

Did they even bother to replace the ammo she used?

Should be part of the restitution required to be paid by the perp before release.

Plus an extra 10% as a restocking fee. ;-)

You mean that Grandma lost her stockings while shooting? That sure enough should have scared the guy and kept him quiet.

Bwahahahahaha!

...Jim Thompson