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Pastimes : Guns and Weapons
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To: WTSherman who wrote (1)4/24/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Fangorn  Read Replies (1) of 149
 
WT,
If those kids in Colorado hadn't had guns they may well have set off all the bombs thereby killing everybody in the building instead of the thirteen they did kill before taking their own lives. If the teacher who died had had a concealed handgun there might have been only two deaths. If those kids had a reason to suspect that a teacher or janitor was carrying they might have reconsidered. You like most anti-gunners fail to acknowledge the fact that guns save many lives because the homeowner scares off the burglar, rapist et al. by brandishing a gun not to mention all the thugs who don't break in out of fear that the occupant may be armed. Explain to me why violent crime of all types has gone DOWN in the states that have relaxed the concealed carry rules.

There is no doubt that domestic altercations sometimes end in a shooting because a gun is handy. Would getting your head bashed by a baseball bat or your intestines sliced by a butcher knife be any less fatal? Guess we better ban bats and knives too. While we are at it lets ban propane tanks and steel pipe as someone like those kids in
Colorado may use them to make bombs. Of course we will have to ban fertilizer and diesel fuel too so another McVeigh doesn't blow something up.

As to automatic weapons they are already illegal but that doesn't stop gangs from using them.

If we do what you want the criminals in this country will have a field day because they will have ALL of the guns. I am certain that outlawing guns would be just as affective as the expensive sixty year old War on Drugs the results of which is more drugs, stronger drugs, more availability. A school kid has an easier time getting marijuana or crack than they do the legal drugs alcohol or tobacco. Yeah, let's do the same thing with guns, NOT!!!
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