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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (5661)	4/27/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Funny that you don't see that same outcry for a ban on drinking by teens or adults.>> This is not covered by constitution...so guns are political issue and autos criminal..

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (5661)	4/27/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 17770

<<derek, i might add a bit further in that regards.... Funny that you don't see that same outcry for a ban on drinking by teens or adults...I think the last figures I heard were something like 25,000 dead annualy just from drunk driving. that's a teensy bit more than 25 students... Not that i don't feel sorry for what happened, but it is just as tragic for the mothers and fathers of those dead drinkers and victims of same... This current spin on the guns is a joke.>> Exactly PK. Its also funny that guns are blamed for the violence as if they are a causative agent, and yet alcohol isnt. Its more acceptable to blame guns than to blame alcohol. What is completely missed by some people is that, like drinking and driving (alcohol abuse), abuse of firearms is a matter of individual responsibility. But such ideas as "individual responsibility" arent fashionable these days...