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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (13451)	10/30/1997 11:57:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Alex, I am frankly very confused about the whole gun issue. I am impressed with your very neat and graceful segue from abortions, however!!! Recently I read that in states where you can now carry guns everywhere with you, violent crimes seem to be going down as criminals become afraid. This is good!!! However, the rate of accidental deaths from guns, particularly among children, just makes me cringe, and every time I read a story about another little girl blown away by her sibling two years older, or something similar, I feel just terrible. Am I correct in assuming that your primary ideological stand is constitutional in origin? That an armed citizenry protects a free country? I have no problem with that, except that of course all of the militias are fully armed as well, and they want to overthrow the government in power. It all feels quite a bit like the lawless frontier in some ways. I know quite clearly that when there are guns around, arguments and despairs and depressions that would have ended nonviolently have more of a tendency to be final and fatal. What say you about the problems with guns? Are there ways we could regulate them and still make you happy? And why does anyone need armor-piercing bullets and extremely powerful, military-type weapons in this society? I often feel very sorry for the police, because they are so out-gunned.