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Bud Helms

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Dear Violence Policy Center Action Network Member:

The news this week was particularly tragic: Ten Amish school girls shot execution-style in their one-room schoolroom. This horrific shooting comes on the heels of a Colorado man taking six high school girls hostage, shooting and killing one after sexually molesting several of the girls.

These tragic events highlight the importance of the work of the Violence Policy Center. The VPC's recently released study on murder-suicide, "American Roulette," has already become an important resource for the news media. See coverage of the study in Pennsylvania: http://www.blogs.pennlive.com/default.asp?item=206293

VPC research is also shaping editorial comment on how a gun-saturated America contributes to tragedies like the Amish schoolhouse shooting. See a recent column in the Baltimore Sun:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/lo...t05,0,5894911.column?coll=bal-news-columnists

The VPC is also getting out our research that convincingly refutes the gun lobby's argument that arming teachers is the answer to school shootings: http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/Armingteachers.fs.pdf
This week's tragic events reinforce the importance of the VPC's solid research and policy proposals. To keep updated on our activities, please visit www.vpc.org.

Thank you, as always, for your efforts to stop gun death and injury.

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This makes me think of something that happened in my past....

It never ceases to amaze me how two people can walk away from an experience with completely different viewpoints. For example, there was a shooting by a crazed gunman at my university where I worked a couple of years ago. It was in the building right next door to mine so I wasn't in immediate danger. A professor in the building where it occured was in her office and opened the door, the shooter was right there, she saw the shooter and closed the door - the shooter fired at the same time. The round went through the door and hit the professor in the chest but it was a superficial wound since it was mostly stopped by the thick door. Afterwards the professor started to be very vocally anti-gun when she hadn't been before. She was upset that people are allowed to have guns. While I didn't get shot and I wasn't in the same building - I was affected by this incident because we were locked down and then evacuated after some time. Anyway, I remember being very angry that I was not allowed to have a weapon at work. And, if I had been in the shoes of the professor - I would have been so much more angry, and vocal about it, that I wasn't allowed to be armed. Many people don't understand my point of view and I guess I won't understand the point of view of many others.
 
This week's tragic events reinforce the importance of the VPC's solid research and policy proposals.
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Head solidly inserted in dark and smelly region. Helps reinforce bogus research and useless policy proposals.
 
http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/Armingteachers.fs.pdf


And this is supposed to tell us what exactly, that people who the antis think should have guns are not proficient with them. Seems they need to make laws so LEO's have to go qualify every week to lower those stats then.

Also, the fact that they lost all those guns in a 60 day period, hmm, wonder how that could've happened. The people handling the guns are irresponsible and complacent, but I bet very few in the chain of custody were ever reprimanded or fired so incidents like this don't happen again.

Have a great Kenpo day

Clyde
 
Thank you, as always, for your efforts to stop gun death and injury.
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For once I agree with them, stop injuring and killing guns!

But wait, aren't they the ones that want to hurt, injure, and kill the guns by cutting them up :confused:

I get so confused when I read the anti's. If they are so against guns why do they advocate for others not to kill or injure them?
 
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