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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (134275)	3/7/2001 7:45:57 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574262

Jim, The "right to bare arms" crowd goes way back and is mired in the distrust of the government. For some reason some people think they could overthrow the government if need be or protect themselves from overzealous police etc. I don't buy the argument. At this point, overthrowing the Government would require nuclear, chemical or biological arms. The public has accepted the ban on nuclear weapons as an acceptable "infringement" of their Constitutional rights. It is just a matter of degree. Automatic weapons have already been banned. Why not semi-automatic weapons? When people get fed up with their children being murdered in school, they will demand an end to the choke lock of the gun lobby on Washington. The shooting was the latest of more than a dozen incidents of gun violence in American schools in recent years, including multiple killings in Oregon, Arkansas, Kentucky and Colorado. dailynews.yahoo.com This is the real stuff which affects people's lives. The Republicans have diverted the public's attention with meaningless issues (the President's private life) as a way to distract from what we should be concerned about. Gun lobby Congressional corruption is serious business that affects real people's lives. Scumbria