I am sorry to bring up such an "old" subject for you, but when I tried to
print out the stuff I missed when I was on vacation, my computer sort of
had apoplexy and froze. I only got to see some of the discussions on
several subjects, and am intrigued as to what, if anything came of them.
One of this cliffhangers was the business about a bfing mom being
"exposed to lead" on the firing range. This is something way out of my
ken - is this a documented fact that people X
amount of time on a firing range are exposed to Y amount of lead? Have I
missed something? Seems to me that there are plenty policewomen and
female soldiers around, many of them moms, some surely nurse their
babies....... and this hasn't been checked? This may sound harsh, but why
do I get the feeling that this woman is fantasizing? To get attention,
maybe? Can somebody make sense of firing and gun and somehow breathing lead?
OK. The assistant director of cardiology just wandered in and I ambushed
him on this question. He says that bullets either are not made of lead
any longer or are coated with something else (like nickel). This woman's
fears simply make no sense. Besides, after having my husband, daughter
and one son in the army, I never heard of anyone wearing "masks" on the
firing range, so much of her story makes no sense either. The discussion was
interesting, but I for one would like to stay within the reality dimension.
Judy K. in Israel, a meanie today