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To: Ilaine who wrote (108210)	4/7/2005 1:10:25 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Respond to of 793917

Big Brother doesn't want you to have guns. And anything Big Brother wants, I oppose, just on general principles. Amen. And as my favorite bumper sticker says: Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people then my guns.

To: Ilaine who wrote (108210)	4/7/2005 2:35:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

I had brunch today with the one person in the world I know who has a carry permit. (He's had it for about two years now, I think, and the gun hasn't left his bedside except to be oiled. For the record, he lives way west of Alexandria. <g>) He told me a story about a friend who got one just after he did. The fellow was stopped by the police for a traffic violation. When the officer returned from his patrol car, his whole demeanor was different having discovered when he checked the license that that this fellow had a carry permit. The story made me wonder, if those with carry permits were such salt of the earth fellows as they are portrayed here, why would the officer change his tenor and become cautious? In the course of this discussion I learned something interesting. I'm told that they instruct you when you get the permit that, if you are stopped to the police, the first thing out of your mouth is supposed to be "I have a carry permit but am not armed." I can't imagine having the presence of mind to think to say that. I'd be preoccupied with wondering if I was going to get a ticket.