On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:01:15 -0400, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

When free people use their minds instead of letting foolish emotions be
their guide, the concept of restricting firearms from law abiding citizens
is one of the first things to go.

Hi Jack,

The D.C. sniper (a known non-law abider) got his firearm from non-law
abiding citizens out the back door of a local gun-shop here. Foolish
emotions had nothing to do with their inability to account for several
hundred missing guns they just shrugged off as bookkeeping
discrepancies. Clearly they had more guns than necessary to stay
profitable. Imagine how long your supermarket would stay in business
at that kind of employee pilfering rate.

Now, if we bring the foolish emotion issue into it, then Mr. John
Allen Muhammad, clearly an emotional person, could now simply walk up
to the counter and get more bang for his buck. And if denied, I
suppose he would have had to pay more at the back door.

James D. Martin,
James Buchanan,
Kumar Walekar,
Sarah Ramos,
Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera,
Pascal Charlot,
Woman shot, wounded,
13-year-old boy wounded,
Dean Harold Myers,
Kenneth H. Bridges,
Linda Franklin,
37-year-old man shot,
Conrad Johnson,
killed or wounded between October 2 and October 22.

Another foolish, emotional personality that appeared before committees
to argue that we retain the prohibition against assault rifles was
Reagan's Press Officer James Brady. One may say he is emotional
simply because he survived being shot (the alternative is being
un-emotionally dead).

Well, let's just mark it up to the dispassionate tenor of the
Republican Guard who have over the years jettisoned Reagan's mandates
as easily as they shrugged off the prohibition against assault
weapons. The Republican Guard has even offered laws to reduce the
liability of the local gun shop and emotional others like them that
whine they are too hard pressed by rational laws to balance their
books or lock their back doors. The example of the Russian school
debacle where the collapse of rational law has seen plenty of assault
weapons were available makes the Columbine massacre seem like a
Saturday afternoon picnic.

"In countries like the Untied States, it's
perfectly legal for members of the public
to own certain types of firearms. If you live
in such a country obtain an assault rifle
legally, preferably an AK-47 or variations"
-- Al Qaeda training manual
the Ossama seal of approval to our nation's administration

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC