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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (20389)	6/8/2000 4:13:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 769667

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. The changing circumstances are that city dwellers are often restricted from owning firearms (special permitting in New York) or at least severely inconvenienced (NO CCW permits or no carry in auto). Minorities, women and the elderly are the most common victims of violent crime and are most in need of firearms for defense. Women are 2.5 times more likely to suffer serious injury when offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. Quite a contrast. Cheaper or less-expensive firearms are beneficial to their cause. (The cheapest imaginable single shot pistols were distributed to the underground in France in WWII to allow them to obtain better weapons from their invaders. These were stamped out of sheet metal.) Full automatic weapons are often cheaper on the black market than in the legal market because some semi-automatics can be modified to full automatic with illegal parts. The ad-vantage always goes to the criminal or those with criminal intent in gun-control strategies because they pay no attention and circumvent the strategies. More Guns (for citizens) equals less Crime. Ask John Lott.

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