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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (599270)	1/30/2011 4:58:23 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578483

Give a few examples... IPSC and self defense is pretty obvious even to you. The Arizona killer was not a criminal when he bought his weaponry... and murder is a crime there as well - no matter magazine capacity. Did the NRA fight like hell against the bans and lead is still not banned everywhere or for everything Yes - because it's expensive, it rusts inside wounded ducks and causes festering wounds and it made generations of shotguns unusable as steel shot would tear them up. Newer steel alternatives have made the old guns usable again but at the time - no such alternatives existed besides steel. Although the argument regarding ducks eating lead in water is entirely possible - there is no equivalent case on dry land to require banning lead shot for other birds like grouse, quail or rabbits.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (599270)	1/30/2011 5:19:43 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578483

Liberal Hostility to Second Amendment Explained Posted by Van Helsing at January 29, 2011 4:52 PM moonbattery.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (599270)	1/31/2011 12:05:56 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578483

Rare sane liberal on gun control: ..... Much has been made of Arizona's notoriously lax gun laws. But Arizona law was irrelevant to Jared Loughner's purchasing the gun. The background check is federal, and he passed it. Yes, his carrying concealed to the Safeway, without a permit, was legal under Arizona's new law, but if it hadn't been, would he have been dissuaded? He headed off to commit murder; he was already far over the line where a concealed-carry law would have made any difference to him. As a liberal Democrat, I worry about the damage we might do by rushing toward a fresh raft of gun-control laws. It's very hard to demonstrate that most of them -- registration, waiting periods, one-gun-a-month laws, closing the gun-show loophole, large-capacity-magazine restrictions, assault-rifle bans -- have ever saved a life. It's a hard thing to accept, but in a country of 350 million privately owned guns, the people who are inclined to do bad things with guns will always be able to get them. One might as well combat air crashes by repealing gravity. ...... huffingtonpost.com