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To: American Spirit who wrote (114805)	2/18/2008 10:16:42 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

In IL, one has to be registered to be a gun owner and to buy ammunition. It is a pretty tough state gun-control wise. But as usual, these laws are just money raisers. Do you think progressives like you with psychiatric histories should be banned from gun ownership?

To: American Spirit who wrote (114805)	2/18/2008 11:18:31 AM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I figure more Americans have been killed by guns, many more, since 1950 than all Americans who died in all the wars we have fought since 1776. In years of the late 1980's early 1990's US gun deaths easily exceeded 35,000 a year; from murder, accidents, homicides and suicides. _Homocide is slightly different than murder but the person is still dead.- One could argue that some of the people would have died from other means , but guns provide instant opportunity so the death levels would have been quite a bit less. Gun deaths have gone down in this decade, in large part due to better medical services, and also due to declines in drug related shootings. Actually we also have a severe problem with prescription abuse, this is replacing gun deaths as the biggest cause of accidental death; however, this does not excuse the horrible toll of guns. When compared to any industrial country we are so far off the charts negatively , it is totally embarrassing. How can we let the NRA dictate the gun agenda. Most people, including me, would just want to get rid of automatics and killer bullets and have tighter licensing laws.

To: American Spirit who wrote (114805)	2/18/2008 4:21:44 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I'm surprised that as a well known "liberal" you are so "anti-privacy". Personally I'm not too sure the solution to gun crime is to allow Johnny Redneck down at the local gun shop access to everybody's medical records. The number of people in the US on anti-depressants is easily in the tens of millions. Anti-depressants are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs. Don't be surprised if many people in your life you have loved or respected have been on an anti-depressant at some point in their lives. it's totally ignorant to engage in stereotyping a huge portion of the American population who are 99.9% peaceful. I doubt very much that criminals in general are high users of anti-depressants. You've just fallen for the NRA's tactic of blaming "psychos" for gun violence. Its that fact that its so easy to get a gun thats the real reason so many Americans die at the hands of "shooters".