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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Little Joe who wrote (133936)	3/28/2001 6:52:21 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769667

Hitler won over the German people, and there was no serious internal opposition to his coming to power. Hence, there is no connection between your Hitler example and gun control. I believe the chances of a military overthrow of the government are nil, simply because our military are not the robotic automata that was the Prussian military of the '30s. I have much more faith and trust in our military leaders. I think that most pro-gun people, if they are really being honest with themselves, are not so much worried about national security as they are their own security. It is a much more understandable argument; there are threats of crime everywhere, but little threat from internal insurrection (outside of the militant Militias). In removing handguns, but not rifles and shotguns, couldn't legitimate citizens still have the protection they desire, while at the same time removing the concealable weapons from the criminals? It is much harder for someone who obtained a rifle from a gun show to commit a crime than with a handgun. I understand the argument of how hard it would be to get rid of handguns, but isn't that what the milder 'background' checks are also supposed to do? Make guns less available to those who shouldn't have them? I'd understand more the argument to take one extreme or the other; get rid of all handguns, or don't bother doing any checking. Either we can make guns less available, or we can't. But I do appreciate your honesty on being uncomfortable with the NRA. I know a lot of gun owners who feel the same; agree with basically what the NRA was about 10-15 years ago (education and safety), but uncomfortable with their direction now (pure political lobbying).