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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: epicure who wrote (1963)10/10/2000 11:13:53 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
a pool is not a weapon

Oh? I'm not so sure about that. Back in my university days, some buddies and I moved into a pad with a 20,000 gallon pool and jacuzzi... (we rented the place for $850/month.. :0)

But when we first saw this pool, one of my friends made the quip that it looked as if the Government had been using it for culturing biological weaponry... <VBG>

Took us 3 weeks or hand scraping/scrubbing and 3 "shockings" of muriatic acid to kill all the slime that had been permitted to grow over the previous winter...

That pool WAS a weapon... I could have thrown someone in it and they would have been lost forever... LOL!!

And btw, yes.. I want background checks (instantaneous ones) for weapons buyers. I do not believe mentally ill people should own them. I do not want children to play with them. I do not want them allowed at school.

And I do not want a law-abiding, mentally competent, person's right to bear the means of protecting themselves revoked, restricted, or infringe upon.

And that means that hand guns, rifles, shotguns, or even semi-automatic military weapons are fine with me.

I would rather our society endure that potential risk associated with having firearms in the hands of citizens, than the alternative where the only security is provided by the government.

In either scenario, criminals will have little problem obtaining firearms for themselves....

Regards,

Ron
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