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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (20384)	6/7/2000 2:44:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (5) of 769667

I grew up in a rural community. I had a pickup truck with a gun rack, which contained a rifle in full view while parked in the high school lot. Rifle practice (a part of the 4-H activities) was often in the school gymnasium. The guys who used to get into fights at my high school did not have guns. First they could hardly afford them. I have a revolver from those days that cost my dad $150. I saw one pretty much like it at a sportings good store for $125 a couple of months ago. There has been 3 decades of inflation between those pricings. The revolver was next to a equally priced semi-automatic pistol, which was a very exotic item when I was a kid. Second, if those guys managed to get ahold of a gun and showed it to pretty much anyone, the constable would have driven over to their house and confiscated it (and the JP would have backed him up). After all, everyone knew those guys and their bad habits. Today, not only can a gun be bought with payday's leftover money, the town has tripled in size and filled with people who sleep there, but work, shop, and socialize elsewhere. The changing circumstances lead to a much higher level of risk for violence than existed when I was a child. TP

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