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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Porter who wrote (134208)	3/6/2001 5:33:54 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573738

Steve, RE: <Why is it, that the only way anything is resolved on TV anymore is with a gun? > Because it gets great eyeballs, silly! Two guys/gangs/countries sitting down to negotiate their differences wouldn't sell ads for Johnson's Baby Powder! And the people who buy Johnson's Baby Powder aren't the ones the advertisers are looking for anyway (except for JBP) -- they don't have any money left over after buying all that damn Powder/Diapers/Gerber's (watch out for the glass but trust your baby to us), etc. At the same time, I doubt there's a whole lot more gun violence now than in the '50s & '60s (per capita, of course), and I'm pretty sure guns were at least as available then as now. They certainly were in my case. In the late 50s in my early teens I had a Browning light 5 SemiAutomatic shotgun for hunting (Still have it), and my dad had a Winchester Low Wall Single Shot 22. A group I associated with went shooting at a local gun club every Saturday morning during several winters (targets at rifle range.) When it wasn't winter (or not Saturday morning) we seldom bothered with the rifle range, but went into the woods with the rifles on the handlebars of our bikes -- or shot in our cellars. And in hunting season were driven to farms where we had permission to hunt (Shotguns, no rifle hunting allowed in NJ). I never heard of one of my friends ever being questioned about why he was riding around with a rifle on his handlebars -- & mine, at least, was NEVER cased! This was in New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the union, within 10 miles of the Trenton(state capital) City Limits. Times Change. tgptndr