Noel...
Have you corresponded with her personally? I ask because if not, her request is just rhetoric.
I read her article and I'm afraid it would be a total waste of time and effort.
She has succumbed to the histrionics and hysteria the anti-gunners have shoveled out, and she has a fundamental misconception of this principles of this country and of history.
What she is unaware of is that this country is not a democracy it is a democratic Republic. I don't have to get her ok or anyone else's ok for anything....I have certain basic unalienable rights and am not required to accomodate her neuroses and phobias. Statistically speaking....how many female killers have been brunette? Likely more brunettes than blonds. If she develops a fear of brunette females, must I change my hair color or move to a country more tolerate of brunettes? What other traits do I have that she wants to outlaw? I also have an extensive library of scientific texts, chemistry, physics and biological. I have 2 post graduate degrees and enough theoretical and applied scientific knowledge to be able to kill all life in the Western States. I'm by no means unique either....every year this country turns out thousands and thousands of young people with this kind of knowledge. No boast, this is pure statement of fact. What does she want to do about us?
She doesn't wish to be educated or even argue from a fact based position. She recites the same bogus discredited arguements. She has made up her mind and she isn't interested in seeing reality or facts. She isn't interested or even comforted by the fact that she and everyone she knows has a less than 0.0012% chance of being killed by a gun....whereas she does have better than 30% chance of dying front breast cancer...she has a 25% chance of being raped.
My brother and I had free access to guns from day one and all the kids we grew up with did too....the only people I personally know who have ever killed anyone were Dad, uncles, and other men who were in a war. My infant son is going to be raised like I was...he will be exposed and instructed in firearms. I will take him hunting as my Dad did me, if he likes it we will always go hunting. I will give him the very best fundamental value system I can while he is in my charge. He will learn responsibility and duty. He won't be allowed self-pity or self-indulgence for the experience of normal trials and tribulations of life. He will know he is special to me, but he is equal to other people and they must be respected. He is and will be loved, never ignored and will forever know that he can talk to mom about anything and at anytime in his life as long as I am alive. I will never fear my son, never give him cause to fear or distrust himself. No one on earth, least of all a government, will do this better than me.
If people would get off their lazy asses and get involved in their kids lives, none of this will happen. I'm not talking about activities I'm talking about knowing what they think, how they feel, their worries, dreams, pain, etc.
These people never squawk about bank robbers and hold ups killing people....they fear their kids. The concept of a kid going off is their horror and is blown totally beyond proportion. This country is held hostage by the acts of maybe 20 abberrant kids.
Sorry, I can't and won't let her neurotic phobias and personal failings influence my life.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"
[This message has been edited by DC (edited May 21, 1999).]
