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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (688300)	12/15/2012 1:03:17 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 1575626

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the phrase "automatic pistol" means that "semi-" is implied, right? You are wrong.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (688300)	12/15/2012 1:24:29 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575626

Why America Lets the Killings ContinueBy GREGORY GIBSON Gloucester, Mass. MY wife and I learned about the Connecticut school shootings on our way home from the cemetery, where we had just finished observing the 20th anniversary of our son’s murder. Our son Galen, who was 18, and a teacher were killed on Dec. 14, 1992, by a deranged student who went on a shooting rampage at Simon’s Rock College in western Massachusetts. Galen was a gifted kid, and Simon’s Rock seemed like the perfect place for him. He’d never been happier. The killer had a vastly different reaction to this environment. After run-ins with college officials, he vowed to “bring the college to its knees.” He bought an SKS at a gun shop down the road, and obtained oversize clips and ammunition through the mail. In the wake of Galen’s murder, I wrote a book about the shooting. In it I suggested that we view gun crime as a public health issue, much the same as smoking or pesticides. I spent a number of years attending rallies, signing petitions, writing letters and making speeches, but eventually I gave up. Gun control, such a live issue in the “early” days of school shootings, inexplicably became a third-rail issue for politicians. I came to realize that, in essence, this is the way we in America want things to be. We want our freedom, and we want our firearms, and if we have to endure the occasional school shooting, so be it. A terrible shame, but hey — didn’t some guy in China just do the same thing with a knife? Still, whatever your position on gun control, it is impossible not to react with horror to news of the shootings in Connecticut. Our horror is nuanced by knowledge of what those families are going through, and what they will have to endure in years to come. More horrible still — to me at least — is the inevitable lament, “How could we have let this happen?” It is a horrible question because the answer is so simple. Make it easy for people to get guns and things like this will happen. Children will continue to pay for a freedom their elders enjoy. Gregory Gibson is the author of “Gone Boy: A Father’s Search for the Truth in His Son’s Murder.”

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (688300)	12/15/2012 9:01:21 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575626

When you abolish alcohol, you can have my gun. Deal?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (688300)	12/15/2012 5:55:31 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575626

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the phrase "automatic pistol" means that "semi-" is implied, right? You are wrong and in fact it's a 'mistake' made on purpose by the liberal media almost daily even after being corrected time after time. They know in the minds of the uninformed "automatic" weapons should not be in the hands of any American. That's why they continue to say automatic. then the very freedom to own and bear firearms is at risk Only by people that are easily fooled into thinking the gun was the issue - it's crazy people. And as the Chinese knife attack at a school on the same day as the Connecticut proves - the weapon is not the issue. If the 2nd amendment went away tomorrow, it's not going to affect me How nice for you - it would affect millions and millions of other Americans. Sad to see you giving up on individual freedoms so quickly.