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To: Srexley who wrote (40561)	4/3/2005 12:15:44 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Does the constitution guarantee that I can also have an automatic weapon like an assault rifle? How about hand grenades? Tanks? Shoulder fired missiles? Apparently our love for weapons comes with a price: www-medlib.med.utah.edu Gallup polls show that just under half of Americans claim they own a gun. The more guns you have...the more gun deaths. Often by accident or suicide. Imagine the mess you leave behind when you blow your head off with a firearm. I think some people do it to be rude...making a big mess for someone else to clean up. If you're going to blow your head off...at least go out in the woods and do it. Gun ownership does come with a lot of responsibility. Problem is...most people are irresponsible. When you intersect a large number of households with guns and a large number of households with irresponsible people...the result is obvious. Orca

To: Srexley who wrote (40561)	4/3/2005 2:54:23 PM
From: fresc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Like I said Guns are useless( for home protection) What ever NRA example you give, there are many more reasons not to have a gun.

To: Srexley who wrote (40561)	4/3/2005 2:58:07 PM
From: fresc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

To the best of my knowledge the Wild West was tamed quite a while ago. If Americans genuinely care about all their children's futures and put their priorities in the right order then they have no other option than to ban weapons in the home. What possible harm can it do? Law enforcement agencies would all agree. Go on USA, make a change and really impress the world. People like RED are not the FUTURE!

To: Srexley who wrote (40561)	4/3/2005 3:13:28 PM
From: fresc	Respond to of 173976

Of course handguns should be banned in the United States. For more than 30 years I've been a journalist here. I've covered death and tragedy in every form. In most cases, the cause of which has been the handgun. These people who say we have a Constitutional right to own and carry arms are absolutely correct. But I can't believe that the people who framed our Constitution had any idea that we would turn into a nation of paranoid idiots, who think that if we don't have a house full of guns, we are apt to be invaded by villains from at home and abroad, and lose all that we hold precious. The fact is, we lose a little bit of freedom in the United States every time a tragedy like that in Jonesboro occurs. It has reached the point in this country that we don't dare honk our horns at an absent-minded driver because we might get shot. We don't stop our cars in some neighbourhoods, because we might get shot. We don't complain about our neighbour's dog barking, because we might get shot. The governor of Arkansas, like many politicians who receive a lot of money from the National Rifle Association, didn't blame guns for the Jonesboro tragedy. He blamed television. It was as if he thought a couple of boys, aged 13 and 11, pulled a fire alarm and began lobbing televisions at their schoolmates. I think the British should be commended for banning handguns. When I visit England, I feel safe. I don't think you can feel the same way when you come to the US. Look at all the horrible incidents that have occurred to English tourists just in Florida. That's just one State. Magnify that by 50. It's a disgrace... Randall Collier, USA