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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (47541)	5/20/2005 2:44:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Kids can always get at their parents guns. And kids can always buy weapons from unscrupulous dealers. Once you put assault weapons out there, some of them are going to fall into the wrong hands. No purpose or reason for them to be out there in the first place.

To: JeffA who wrote (47541)	5/20/2005 3:09:05 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You are so ignorant. You know absolutely NOTHING. "Seven months after the Columbine massacre, killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold finally got to thank the two young men who enabled them to pull it off. At a sentencing hearing for Mark Manes, who pleaded guilty to selling Klebold one of the guns used in the massacre, lead investigator Kate Battan read a brief transcript from a video the killers made for police. "I'd like to make a thank you to Mark [Manes] and Phil [Duran]," Klebold said. "I hope you don't get fucked." Harris laughs, and Klebold continues: "We used them. They had no clue ... Don't blame them. And don't fucking arrest them ... Don't arrest any of our friends, or family members or our co-workers. They had no fucking clue. Don't arrest anyone, because they didn't have a fucking clue." The video was made March 15, more than a month before the April 20 killings. Hours after the video transcript was read, Manes received six years in prison for selling Klebold the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun used in the massacre, and three concurrent years on a related charge. He could have received 18 years. Phil Duran is charged with assisting Manes with the gun sale. Both men also participated in training Harris and Klebold to use the weapons.... salon