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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (5057)	4/22/1999 6:55:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<I think the problem is NOT "access to firearms for everyone", its this preoccupation of the media with firearms. Its not the firearms that killed, its the people who willfully fired the firearms. If the Trenchman didn't have firearms they could still have blown up half a stadium with pipebombs(possibly killing a lot more people). So you take away our constitutional rights to bear arms. What's next? Butane lighters, metal pipes, nails, fertilizer(I'd short the HD stock!)? Don't you think self policing or parents policing their own kids is better than a big brother policing us?>> This points to the real issue Paul, where were these kid's parents? Guns dont kill people, its the people who pull the trigger that kill. I grew up around guns, Ive been exposed to them all my life. According the logic of some, I should be at high risk to go out and mow down schoolchildren or postal workers. After all, I have always had, and still do, ready access to firearms, I have always been a fan of video games and especially strategic sims and first person shootemups. I watch violent movies. Ive never killed anyone. Ive never even taken a pot shot at someone in anger. So whats different with these kids? Could it be that they were first, mentally ill, and second, undersupervised and undereducated about firearms? What a shocking concept.