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To: rich4eagle who wrote (238311)	3/15/2002 12:21:08 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

When phasors are available do perceive folks walking around and vaporizing a thug? I'm not sure what you're trying to say but I'll take a stab. (So to speak) To me it comes down to the question of whether or not you trust in the good intentions of the average citizen. I do. I know that the vast majority of policemen who deal with criminals everyday and carry firearms everyday, never fire those weapons. You can extend that to the citizenry. The overwhelming # of gunowners are lawabiding, trustworthy people who ought not have their Constitutional rights infringed upon.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (238311)	3/15/2002 1:25:53 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

PRIVATE FIREARMS STOP CRIME 2.5 MILLION TIMES EACH YEAR, NEW UNIVERSITY SURVEY CONFIRMS By J. Neil Schulman In an exclusive interview, Dr. Gary Kleck, criminologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee and author of "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America," a book widely cited in the national gun-control debate, revealed some preliminary results of the National Firearms Defensive Use Survey which he and his colleague Dr. Marc Gertz conducted in Spring, 1993. Though he stresses that the results of the survey are preliminary and subject to future revision, the survey's results confirm to Kleck's satisfaction his analysis of previous surveys which show that American civilians commonly use their privately-owned firearms each year to defend themselves against criminal attacks, and that such defensive uses significantly outnumber the criminal uses of firearms in America. The new survey, conducted by random telephone sampling of 4,978 households in all the states except Alaska and Hawaii, yield results indicating that American civilians use their firearms as often as 2.5 million times every year defending against a confrontation with a criminal, and that handguns alone account for up to 1.9 million defenses per year. Previous surveys, in Kleck's analysis, had underrepresented the extent of private firearms defenses because the questions asked failed to account for the possibility that a particular respondent might have had to use his or her firearm more than once. wizard.net

To: rich4eagle who wrote (238311)	3/15/2002 1:31:08 PM
From: d.taggart	Respond to of 769670

Your party I am sorry to say Rich is exactly why there are so many handgun deaths for inner city democrats.The dems controlled the US politically for 40 years what we ar and the problems we have are a direct result of dem policies directed towrds destroying the America of our founding fathers in favor of a socialist feel good do it high tax environment that has created much despair for those who followed this doctrine and allowed those who do not a vehicle for amassing wealth and power.It is a shame that the dems have filled the prisons with their power base but when complete power is the goal of a party it does tend to get a little messy.