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

To: gao seng who wrote (160318)	7/12/2001 10:41:17 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), McCain's leading leading foe on the issue in the Senate, contended that the House reformers did themselves in. I think it is a case that the reform minded individuals preferred to be thrown into the briar patch than to be setup with a set of rules, hidden by the Condit story, that could not be passed. The reformers can see how much fur they lost in the briar patch next quarter. TP

To: gao seng who wrote (160318)	7/12/2001 10:44:49 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. --- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764