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Neal Boortz (www.boortz.com) linked to this story. More inane, uninformed drivel from the left. Enjoy!
Christina Freyman
Advertising Manager
Staff Editorial
ATLANTA
October 8, 1999
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Guns are bad. They hurt, kill, and affect millions of lives every year. There are very few people out there that haven't had their lives touched in some way by guns.
People try to convince me that society needs guns, the society can handle guns. Why exactly does one need a gun? One reason I have been told is to protect oneself. Hmmm, from what? Others with guns I assume. Now, if no one had guns then we wouldn't be threatened with guns.
You need to hunt. Even though I don't think people need to hunt because we don't live in a society where we need to scrounge for food, hunting has one good result: animal population control in a world in which we have destroyed the natural cycle of the food chain. Dare we stop our uncontroled sprawl into the animal's natural habitat or our killing of natural predators, we think that shooting is the best solution. One doesn't need a hand gun to shoot deer nor do you need more than a couple guns. Who really takes their guns out to the woods and chooses one out of a bag like a golfer chooses a club? One doesn't need fifty rifles, and one definately doesn't need hand guns to kill any type of animal that isn't human. This country has no need for hand guns unless we love reading about tragedies in the newspaper and really just want to experience one ourselves.
People say a solution would be to enforce the existing gun laws. Larry Ashbrook walked into the Ft. Worth church and started shooting with guns that he had acquired legally. The day he shot was the day of a national event called "See You at the Pole" where Junior and High School students gathered that morning around the flag pole at their school and prayed. Some prayed for their school, some prayed for the country. And one might have prayed for the sad guy who lived down the street. The guy had no criminal record and no existing law could have kept him from getting a gun. He walked into a church that evening that was holding a post "See You at the Pole" rally and took out his anger with religion on the innocent students inside.
George W. Bush responded with a call for more love. More love? We live in a world with very little love. People don't like other people because of a whole host of small details like the color of their skin, what religion they follow, who they fall in love with, what nationality they are, where they live, etcetera. This country is divided by bitter class and race lines and George calls for more love? Yes, we need more love. If we all loved then we would have no need for guns to protect us. People are taught to hate in this world, and until they are taught to love, people are going to keep on killing.
Yes, even if we take away all the guns, then people will still kill people. There is bunch of ways of doing it, knives for one. But one can't walk into a Jewish day care in California and stab a bunch of kids in a small amount of time. Guns allow people to kill lots of people in a small amount of time. If you have to walk up to someone and stab then you have to be close. Close enough to realize that you are killing them to really mean to kill them, to really think about killing them. It is a lot more personal. With guns one can be fairly far away. You can drive by, not even see your victim fall. Guns are impersonal. Guns are a more efficient way of killing and do we really want a more efficient way of killing?
Guns should be outlawed. At the very least, handguns should be outlawed. We are in a circular argument with the protection from others with guns argument. Guns won't be outlawed. We live in a society of self-centered people who are more afraid of their right to kill with guns being taken away than concerned with making this country a better place. The second amendment, the right to bear arms, was written to give the people of the 1700s the means to rise against a tyrannical government if needed. Let me break it to you. Your guns aren't going to protect you against the Defense Department's weapons. You shooting your .45 at the tank outside your house isn't going to make a dent. All the guns in the world won't protect you from the thermo-nuclear blast that this country could produce.
Until we, as a society, look beyond our selfish fears and give up our guns, we are going to continue to see tragedies like what happen in Ft. Worth, California, and right here in Atlanta this summer. Like I said, guns are bad.
Christina Freyman
Advertising Manager
Staff Editorial
ATLANTA
October 8, 1999
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Guns are bad. They hurt, kill, and affect millions of lives every year. There are very few people out there that haven't had their lives touched in some way by guns.
People try to convince me that society needs guns, the society can handle guns. Why exactly does one need a gun? One reason I have been told is to protect oneself. Hmmm, from what? Others with guns I assume. Now, if no one had guns then we wouldn't be threatened with guns.
You need to hunt. Even though I don't think people need to hunt because we don't live in a society where we need to scrounge for food, hunting has one good result: animal population control in a world in which we have destroyed the natural cycle of the food chain. Dare we stop our uncontroled sprawl into the animal's natural habitat or our killing of natural predators, we think that shooting is the best solution. One doesn't need a hand gun to shoot deer nor do you need more than a couple guns. Who really takes their guns out to the woods and chooses one out of a bag like a golfer chooses a club? One doesn't need fifty rifles, and one definately doesn't need hand guns to kill any type of animal that isn't human. This country has no need for hand guns unless we love reading about tragedies in the newspaper and really just want to experience one ourselves.
People say a solution would be to enforce the existing gun laws. Larry Ashbrook walked into the Ft. Worth church and started shooting with guns that he had acquired legally. The day he shot was the day of a national event called "See You at the Pole" where Junior and High School students gathered that morning around the flag pole at their school and prayed. Some prayed for their school, some prayed for the country. And one might have prayed for the sad guy who lived down the street. The guy had no criminal record and no existing law could have kept him from getting a gun. He walked into a church that evening that was holding a post "See You at the Pole" rally and took out his anger with religion on the innocent students inside.
George W. Bush responded with a call for more love. More love? We live in a world with very little love. People don't like other people because of a whole host of small details like the color of their skin, what religion they follow, who they fall in love with, what nationality they are, where they live, etcetera. This country is divided by bitter class and race lines and George calls for more love? Yes, we need more love. If we all loved then we would have no need for guns to protect us. People are taught to hate in this world, and until they are taught to love, people are going to keep on killing.
Yes, even if we take away all the guns, then people will still kill people. There is bunch of ways of doing it, knives for one. But one can't walk into a Jewish day care in California and stab a bunch of kids in a small amount of time. Guns allow people to kill lots of people in a small amount of time. If you have to walk up to someone and stab then you have to be close. Close enough to realize that you are killing them to really mean to kill them, to really think about killing them. It is a lot more personal. With guns one can be fairly far away. You can drive by, not even see your victim fall. Guns are impersonal. Guns are a more efficient way of killing and do we really want a more efficient way of killing?
Guns should be outlawed. At the very least, handguns should be outlawed. We are in a circular argument with the protection from others with guns argument. Guns won't be outlawed. We live in a society of self-centered people who are more afraid of their right to kill with guns being taken away than concerned with making this country a better place. The second amendment, the right to bear arms, was written to give the people of the 1700s the means to rise against a tyrannical government if needed. Let me break it to you. Your guns aren't going to protect you against the Defense Department's weapons. You shooting your .45 at the tank outside your house isn't going to make a dent. All the guns in the world won't protect you from the thermo-nuclear blast that this country could produce.
Until we, as a society, look beyond our selfish fears and give up our guns, we are going to continue to see tragedies like what happen in Ft. Worth, California, and right here in Atlanta this summer. Like I said, guns are bad.
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