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To: greenspirit who wrote (18849)	5/14/2000 1:19:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Heard Boxer on this morning. Said the vast majority of Americans are in favor of sensible gun laws. *DUHHHHHHH!!!*

To: greenspirit who wrote (18849)	5/14/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>I mean really, do you lay awake at night or have a passing fear of guns inflicting your children? I sure don't.< I do. I have guns in the house (all locked up of course) and I have primers, cast bullets (perfect choking size) and whatnot. It is not impossible that one day my kids get a hold of a gun, or reloading goodies, and do something stupid or mean. I will do my best to teach them, hands-on, that guns are dangerous and very unforgiving in the hands of someone who isn't clear on the concept. And their friends might have guns in the house ... I can be sanitary with mine, but what about their friends? So yes, I do worry. Having living breathing kids of my own activated deeply latent Daddy genes. I agree with the bit about enforcing the laws that we have, combined with rolling back some of the horsepoop laws - like gun prohibition in Boston and Washington, DC. But I always worry about the safety of my children, be it from that crazy jerk who runs his Explorer down our street at 50 mph, or the Ultra Weed-stop in the garage, or some other kid's dad's Ruger Mark 2 left loaded cuz "it's just a 22". Hypothetical, of course, but you get my drift. Life is about balance. I want to balance my civil liberties to keep&bear arms against the need to reduce violence, either deliberate or accidental. The liberals are drawing the simple equation, Guns = Violence I stand to refute that at every turn, but the need to deal with violence remains even after we agree that civil gun ownership isn't the root of the problem. The onlyy reason I'm nitpicking with haqihana's original post is that I see it providing a wedge for "told you so" antigunners. I'm not disagreeing with either of you on principle here; I hope I made that clear.

To: greenspirit who wrote (18849)	5/14/2000 2:29:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Just heard some female up on stage saying that she (and all of them) would NOT be happy until the USA is like UK, and Australia. And then a man?hollering for the women to scream louder, so that congress will hear that they are stronger and more than the NRA.. Just as I suspected, clintoon, has polarized the NRA into looking like the bad guys.. Hey I got news. This corrupted administration cares NOTHING for the law, and they want ALL your firearms, so at the NEXT Waco, no one will be able to even shoot back at the tanks. Wonder why clintoon has not got a march going into TENNESSEE(home of algoredom) to protest all that Jack Daniels being made that is killing our children at an alarming rate in DRUNK DRIVING accidents? Legacy building is such dirty work, if you no longer have interns to help.........