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To: SilentZ who wrote (229916)	4/19/2005 10:09:54 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573763

Taro sometimes has a special variant of English which somehow only Steve can decode....

To: SilentZ who wrote (229916)	4/19/2005 10:10:42 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573763

Gun safety course a plus for the state The Sarah Brady crowd must have their hair on fire, but Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed a bill to allow Arizona high schools to offer a voluntary course that would require students to discharge a firearm safely at a target to pass. The law allows high schools to offer a voluntary one-semester course that will teach: … The rules of gun safety. … The basic operation of firearms. … The history of firearms and marksmanship. … The role of firearms in preserving peace and freedom. … The constitutional basis of firearms ownership and the right to keep and bear arms. … Practice at a shooting range and demonstration of competence with a firearm. Even people who despise firearms and never would own one under any circumstances need to know what the course will teach. First and foremost, everyone should know how guns work and how to handle them safely. Learning those things teaches responsibility, safety and basic "situational awareness." Secondly, flash back to Dec. 7, 1993, when Colin Ferguson shot 25 people on a Long Island Railroad train in New York. He had a semi-automatic pistol that locks open when the magazine is empty and is safe until the shooter removes the empty magazine, replaces it with a loaded one and drops the slide on a live round. As it happened someone with a quick learning curve realized that fact the second time Ferguson went to reload and overpowered him. Someone with a basic knowledge of firearms could have stopped him the first time the gun went empty. This course will do the students and the state nothing but good. prescottdailycourier.com