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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (22914)	6/15/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Alex, I have never really lived around guns, and feel extremely uncomfortable with them everywhere. While I owned a gun when I had a business, it stayed there. I have never even known anyone who had a gun, to my knowledge, or been in a house where there was a gun, until I went to Texas. My daughter knows that if she ever encounters a friend's household where the presence of a gun is made known, she is not allowed to be there. Am I implying that the mere presence of guns is enough to quality for violent? Not exactly. I am saying Texas was a very strange environment for me, and guns was part of what made it seem violent. Also, there was an analysis over the weekend in the press about the preliminary conclusions about what the contributing factors were in the school shootings. Besides a troubled home, access to violent media, and feeling like an outcaste of some sort, and depression or some other mental disturbance were evident in each case. The other factor in all these cases was having a lot of guns around. Several of these children had taken the NRA child safety course or the equivalent, so ignorance about guns was not a factor. What the article concluded is that when you take troubled teens who need help and add easily available lethal weapons, that is when the school shootings occur. So in these cases, the "mere presence" of guns did make the difference between deadly violence and something that was very treatable, or would probably have resolved as the child grew out of the troubled stage.