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To: Grainne who wrote (90)	5/5/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 174

Being able to carry a gun everywhere is not something I'm advocating. On the one hand, a citizen with a clean record should be able to carry a gun on his person in his car, the street or a shopping mall. There are places where I'd find it a sound and prudent idea to post a sign saying "Carry of firearms not permitted on premises". Venues that spring to mind are sports arenas, courtrooms and schools. The right to keep&bear arms is as subject to legal circumscription as any other Bill of Rights item. I would like to see the courts stop trying to phase out gun ownership/carry on a "preventive" basis. I don't know where you heard the "domino" argument, but I don't think it was from me or the Judge!!! Statistics. Okay 200 million guns, 400 children a year. While I'm not gonna get into the briar patch of what is an acceptable level of risk, I would opine that more children in the USA are killed by air bags than guns. And if you consider that one person in a million are killed by spoiled peanut butter (300 million Americans) we're in the same ballpark. Maybe we should not allow concealed carry of peanut butter and peanut butter based snacks :-) It boils down to your and my (probably different) assessments of what constitutes acceptable risk. One thing that's impossible to measure is how many children in the USA last year were saved from harm by a civilian adult producing a gun in a tough scrape! I think that the personal choice of to carry or not to carry (where legal) is deeply personal, like the right to have an abortion. It's not a thing I want to be told I cannot do. As for America falling apart - you're probably wise to say that it's tough for us to reasonably debate that. We come at a charged topic like that carrying so many biases and personal value beliefs that it gets too easy to get hung up on these.

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