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To: wallacestevens who wrote (868)	8/27/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 67261

<<<If so: are you saying that people who send their kids to public school should just shut up about their worries that guntoting children of guntoting wacko rightwingers might show up and shoot their kids?>>> Well right now, they are half as dangerous as you. You keep this up and you'll kill half the population of his thread from excessive laughter alone on both sides of the political aisle. Gee, maybe those kids get their ideas from brief case totin' wacko left-wing movie producers! Yeah, that's it...yeah...left wing liberals don't own guns...yeah that's the ticket.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (868)	8/27/1998 5:13:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Actually no I wasn't, somehow my response to Michelle Harris was routed to you. I am saying that you have the option just like Bill & Hill to send your child to a private school if you find something objectionable about your local public school. That's exactly what I did. Rather than try to impose my values and standards on the public school, I chose to send my children to a private school. BTW, schools have prohibitions against bringing weapons, irrespective of the gun totin' childs' parents' politics......I'd say if any knowledge of a child violating that rule, needs to be brought to the attention of the proper authority.....I think they're supposed to be suspended for such.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (868)	8/27/1998 11:36:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

are you saying that people who send their kids to public school should just shut up about their worries that guntoting children of guntoting wacko rightwingers might show up and shoot their kids? wallace, you're sounding stupider and stupider by the second, and more and more offensive with your stereotyping insults. For Your Info, buckshot, when the Oregon High School had a kid shoot up the cafeteria earlier this year, it was a couple of NRA trained "right-wingers" who wrestled the gun away from the kid, saving lives. And no, the shooter was not a fellow "right-winger" OR an NRA member. So shaddup.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (868)	8/28/1998 4:22:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 67261

<<<If so: are you saying that people who send their kids to public school should just shut up about their worries that guntoting children of guntoting wacko rightwingers might show up and shoot their kids? >>> I love it. Guntoting wacko rightwingers that weren't even of voting age much less capable of having a politial leaning. Great logic wallace. But to answer your question people shouldn't shut up about their worries of guntoting children of guntoting wacko rightwingers any more then they should shut up about their worries about guntoting homies of guntoting wacko leftwingers.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (868)	8/28/1998 10:04:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<< guntoting children of guntoting wacko rightwingers might show up and shoot their kids>> I'm afraid you've finally pushed one of hotbuttons. The number of incidents related to misuse of guns by non-gang, non-drug using whackos is so small compared to the number of legitimate gun owners or of people of faith, that having you sterotype and pigeonhole people in this way is not only offensive, but dangerous. By your definitions, the Pope would be a right-wing whacko - after all, he believes religion should be the basis for the way you run your life, doesn't believe in abortion, etc. However, I doubt you would consider him a gun-toting whacko right-winger. Or are you saying only American right-wingers become whacko? This may also come as a shock to you, but not all NRA members are right-wing and not all right-wingers are NRA members. Not all gun owners are right-wing, and not all criminals are right-wing. This may REALLY come as shock to you, but very few young children actually have reasoned political views. The children of left-wing whacko PETA members or Earth-Firsters don't necessarily run around spiking trees or freeing animals. Children with emotional problems (they torture small animals, for instance) generally exhibit the problems in obvious ways long before they commit violent crimes against people. We need a way to recognize those early actions and develop ways to deal with them. To put it another way, far more children die from drowning in 5 gallon buckets than die from schoolyard shootings, but I doubt you are advocating the ban of those buckets. This country has guns since its beginnings (and prior) but gun control never even came into the discussion until after the 1930's. More people were familiar with the use of guns then, and guns were actually more prevalent on a per capita basis. What has changed? Probably the move from rural to urban settings. Also a change in attitudes away from personal responsibility to blaming other people. Maybe even our insistence on immediate gratification and lack of ability to control our impulses.