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To: E who wrote (53615)	8/31/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 108807

>But my impression is that the NRA supports the sale of those automatic weapons that spit out round after round of bullets in seconds, often so lethally. They don't seem like either hunting or sports or home-protection weapons, more just like killing machines; and it seems to me that not cooperating to the fullest in an attempt to severely limit those weapons, in particular, seems extreme to many Americans.< When I read this I get so exasperated at whoever has made this story sound so plausible. Is the NRA championing automatic weapons? NO. As for spitting out round after round in seconds ... think about that for a second. That is what a gun does.. "Automatic" means one pull of the trigger ... several shots. Y'know, machine gun stuff. Right now the legislators are concentrating on so-called "assault weapons", and they are defining them as just about any autoloader made. One pull of the trigger - one shot fired. This is what a gun does. After all if you can pull the trigger like Parkinson Man, you can send out round after round in seconds. How many seconds? Your mileage will vary. The real question here is when this stopped being a normal, unremarkable feature of firearms and some sort of Public Menace. And it is this sort of thing that has finally and irrevocably pushed me into siding with the NRA. The media and legislators are disguising it, but there is a survival struggle going on for the dignity and acceptability of the very idea of any sort of civil gun ownership. They're registering shotguns, plain ol birding weapons, in CA now because some illiberal State Senator has written a sweeping "assault weapon" registry bill and our socialist Governor has signed it. The goal is firearm confiscation ... just wait and see. Just like NYC in the Sixties. They're trying to make "a gun in the house" a beacon of moral failure. <long string of very old English> It is in the very nature of "balanced, reasonable" gun control law to go in one direction and one direction only. (So the tactic is to divide guns into categories and ban the "bad" categories - of course the "good" leftovers get divided some more ...) It is flat out not in the interest of the politicians and police chiefs to restore gun rights once they were taken away. The Framers realized it when they wrote the Bill of Rights. And I'm baffled at and p.o.ed with the ACLU for failing to evenly defend the Constitution.

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