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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (134212)	3/6/2001 5:14:31 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575063

Eric, remember the L.A. riots? One thousand of the two thousand stores ransacked were Korean-owned. (There were about 5,000 in L.A. at the time.) Korean-Americans decided to arm themselves and defend their own stores, since the L.A.P.D. was certainly of no help. Middle-aged Korean men holding rifles were quite a sight to behold, since most of them looked like my own father (or some of his peers). Too bad the only one they actually shot and killed was another Korean in an incident of friendly fire. That made me realize that for a culture that certainly doesn't revolve around guns, the 1st-generation Korean-Americans sure knew how to use them thanks to mandatory military service. I'm sure this is one of those NRA textbook cases of Americans (immigrants, in this case) exercising their 2nd amendment rights and forming real militias for self-defense. Makes me feel really fortunate as a 2nd-generationer that I didn't have to go through mandatory service, nor do I have to run an inner-city business to be successful here. Tenchusatsu P.S. - My own father is the kind of guy that really hates guns and violence. But one time at an amusement park, we went to the shooting gallery. My dad picked up the rifle and started shooting targets with the accuracy of a sniper. I never expected that from him until I remembered that he too had mandatory service back in Korea.