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To: WTSherman who wrote (217)	4/24/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

WT: Your rebuttal suggests unfamiliarity with insurgency and guerrilla warfare strategy. Too bad the Viet Cong didn't buy that crap. Next I suppose weapon confiscation by the nazis and Japanese should be interpreted as self-sacrificing, altruistic gestures. Hello? In these instances a gun, bomb, or whatever is only the vehicle of criminal expression. Responsibility for criminal behavior lies within the criminal -- stop excusing criminal behavior by blaming everything and everybody and stop changing the subject to advance knee-jerk political agendas.

To: WTSherman who wrote (217)	4/24/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Jsquared	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 368

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the fact of the Russian citizens resisting the German forces that kept the Germans out of Stalingrad? I agree that having an armed population wouldn't avoid the persecution of minorities. In fact, since the United States has an overall anti-prejudiced disposition, minorities in some parts of the country would be safer if the military had a monopoly on guns. On the other hand, it seems that somebody like those two kids in Colorado, who made bombs in their spare time, probably would have managed to get a gun (legally or not). One more thing: Paranoia is not the only reason to own a gun. I personally enjoy target shooting.