Luna's Mother's Death- Correction (Wizards and firearms )

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No: HPFGUIDX 123545


Becky:
> 
> I agree with all that's been said. I just want to add a further 
> complication to wizards defending themselves against firearms. It is 
> quite clear that most wizards don't know what a gun is. PoA -
>  'Muggles have been told that Black is carrying a gun (a kind of 
> metal wand which Muggles use to kill each other)' and in OotP we see 
> Kinglsey refer to 'firelegs' which Arthur corrects him should 
> be 'firearms'. Seems to me that it would make it much harder for a 
> wizard to defend himself against the un-known. If a Muggle pointed a 
> gun at them, would they even know how dangerous that could be? Would 
> they know to defend themselves?
> 

If it really were dangerous for them. Did anybody notice that at St.
Mungo's there is no ward for 'muggle' diseases, wounds etc? So
apparently they do not need to fear cancer, heart disease, normal
accidents and any other sure muggle killers. But with people who can
heal a broken ankle with a singel spell that does not surprise me much. 

About firearms and children's books. I don't know who posted that (and
 I'm a bit too lazy to search back for it, sorry) I think that this is
an American point of view. I don't know if the British firearm laws
are more or less stict as ours, but no way are they as lax as in the
USA, where you can actually buy guns and bullets at a supermarket
(gasp, I did not believe this was true the first time I heard about
it). What sane person would want such a dangerous thing as a gun in
his house anyway? So for people of the ww to get hold of a gun, they
would really have to know their way into the muggle world, especially
the illegal parts of it. Somehow this strikes me as unlikely. 

Gerry