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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1355)	7/21/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

So your typical response is that because Texans own guns, you needed one too for your own safety, but not in Ca. cause all you are hi tech. law abiders and you don't need guns?? That about it?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1355)	7/21/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

to: Michelle Harris from: truedog What the heck do you mean "everyone in Texas owns guns"? You haven't been in this state enough to know doodely squat about it. The cowboy and indian mentallity has long since gone by the wayside, even though we still remember those days. There are very few guns owned by upright citizens and they are all hunting rifles, hunting shotguns, and small caliber target pistols. Many of the collectors have a lot of guns but they are chains and locked in a cabinet and are for viewing only. The only automatic weapons are owned by the lawless elements which, as in every state, they seem to multiply faster than law enforcement can find and arrest them. As usual, you spew out non-sensical statements thinking you will automatically be believed. If you want to use that tactic, you should reserve it for the cocktail party circuit. TD

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1355)	7/22/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Michelle, The only kind of gun control I'd like to see is if Hollywood and the TV studios gave up their guns and didn't use a gun in a production for one year. I wonder what would happen then? Could you imagine being able to watch TV without someone getting their head blown off every ten minutes? The fact of the matter is that our media has used violence to sell its products and Americans are now saturated with images of death and destruction. We don't even bat an eye now when we fire cruise missiles into some nation that didn't even threaten us. I loved the way Bill Clinton said "We need to teach children that violence is not a solution to our problems" the same day we flew hundreds of bombing missions over Yugoslavia killing dozens of people. Americans are violent people. This Nation was born of violence and now contributes much to the death and destruction we see every night on the six o'clock news. We are the problem. Not guns. You and Handgun control inc. are trying to treat the symptom, not the problem. Gun control will fail as long as the liberals in our society continue to blame inanimate objects for violence. -John