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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (238936)	3/17/2002 1:31:40 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I have a pool. It is covered with a lock. I believe they should all be covered or locked behind sufficient fences. What did the pollster in your consider a defensive use of a gun? Waving it around? I doubt that this number is even close to reality, because of the low ratio of 'incidents' to actual shootings. I simply cannot believe that 99.99% of these 'incidents' result in the perpetrator simply running away. With the proliferation of guns, a good number of these assailants are similarly armed. I wonder how many of these incidents were really someone stopping a potential crime. How many of them were some bozo branishing his weapon during a road rage incident? How many were at the end of a long night at the bar drinking, becoming obnoxious, and branishing at 'would be assailants'? Gun owners are very protectional of their firearms. I'm sure there are another high percentage of answers that were simply fantasy. Pollster: "Have you used your weapon to stop a crime?" Bubba: "Sure, dang, happens all the time. Put me down for 12 incidents". The 'service provided' by firearms pertains mainly to criminal actions. It's a lot easier to hold up a liquor store with a gun than a knife. And it's a lot harder to be a cop if you never know when a perp is armed. A couple of months ago, 1 mile from my house, a San Jose Police officer was shot to death as he approached a car he had stopped. I believe in a perfect world, law enforcement is the only one to have hand guns. Thanks to the NRA, we are continually pushed in the opposite direction. "Studies" like this one, self serving and likely funded by the NRA, are simply more disinformation used to prop up their morally indefensible argument. The gun lobbies that fight for access to assault weapons, who fight against mandatory gun locks, who fight for access to armor piercing ammo, are using fear and lies to further their cause. The one stand-up act performed by former president Bush was his resignation from the NRA for mailings he found disturbing and "beyond the mainstream by any definition."