Words well spoken...Recieved in Email

[Edwina's Secretary]

CHECK THIS OUT!

I am afraid of hand held power tools now...


Some guy mutilated a woman with a circular saw.....THEN KILLED DHIMSELF WITH IT!


I'm getting kinda nervous....There is a router just outside the door...

How amusing RICHARD. How many Amish school girls were killed with it?

And you...who doesn't like Happy Cinco de Mayo...

The difference is...a circular saw has a purpose other than self-mutilation. A handgun is designed for one thing. Killing people. Easily.

Oh! Let's make a joke about that......

[Edwina's Secretary]

Just read the newspaper ...on the same page with the story of the man who killed his mother with a circular saw...

A college student who killed one and wounded two...with his concealed weapon. Why? Dispute over a video game.

[Randi]

was it an actual concealed weapon with a permit or just a gun he was hiding in his shirt?

Does it matter? .... the shooting continues. No one seem to realise that when people are P.O. or feel threatened, they will use their gun, whether they got it legally or not!

Not sure which paper ES and Richard is referring to, but here's the front pages of quite a few Newspapers around the world.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

[Edwina's Secretary]

Randi, you are right! I don't know if the shooter had a permit, if the gun was in his shirt or sitting on the game console.

I doubt it makes much difference to the dead guy.

It was Cal State Fresno. But a college shooting with one dead and two injuried isn't enough anymore to be on the front page. Or even the front section. It was on page 3 of the second section in the LA TIMES.

[Randi]

... a college shooting with one dead and two injuried isn't enough anymore to be on the front page. Or even the front section. It was on page 3 of the second section in the LA TIMES.

Here, it would certainly be on the front page, even for two or three days - and people would go: Oh my God, someone has been shot!!

It seems to be quite a normal occurance in USA these days.

[RICHARD]

It seems to be quite a normal occurance in USA these days.

With 300 million looney tunes in the country, you have to have some fallout!

--------------

ES,

My point is ANY household item can be used to kill a person.

I am not a gun nut, collector or ?? I have inherited all my guns and they have never caused any problems, as a matter of fact I forget I even have them!


I loaded gun in a room will never kill anyone on it's own. It's the idiot who picks it up and abuses it that causes problems.

[Puckstop31]

In the end, to me, this entire debate comes to one about freedom. It may seem obtuse and illogical to some of our more "enlightened" members, but my ability to own a firearm is, IMHO, the last thing allowing us to have any amount of freedom. This freedom will be taken from me only if I no longer walk this Earth. Period. Men better than myself have fought, suffered and died to make this country what it is. I refuse to let our government take even more of our freedom. The "Patriot Act" et all is horrible enough, why let them take even more?

The SOLE intent of the 2nd Amendment is to provide a way for the people to fight a tyrranous government. How far away do we all really think armed revolution is? All I ever hear from liberal people is how screwed up our government is. Is the answer really MORE laws and government? Sooner or later we will say enough is enough... What will our urbanite, liberal friends do then???


As has been said many times before... If people are willing to give up some freedom for a little "security", they deserve nor will have either.

[Randi]

With 300 million looney tunes in the country, you have to have some fallout!

Yes, Richard, that is SO true, unfortunately! So much more a reason to NOT let everybody have a gun.

I’m sure you’ll agree, that in a given situation someone down the road, who you’d never dream would use a gun, just might!

I know that other things can used to kill people, like a knife - but you’d have to get a lot closer to the person to do so, and you won’t have time to kill quite as many.

[sparks19]

Yes, Richard, that is SO true, unfortunately! So much more a reason to NOT let everybody have a gun.

I’m sure you’ll agree, that in a given situation someone down the road, who you’d never dream would use a gun, just might!

I know that other things can used to kill people, like a knife - but you’d have to get a lot closer to the person to do so, and you won’t have time to kill quite as many.

But you can take out so many more people with a home made bomb.... and you can get instructions for that on the internet.

[wombat2u2004]

But you can take out so many more people with a home made bomb.... and you can get instructions for that on the internet.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd once again we get back to INTENTION !!!!!
The REAL problem.
Wom