Did you read any of the articles of this month's Rolling Stone? For your enjoyment:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Letter from the editor
We know what they did last summer. At the height of the campaign season, they summoned the heads of the great American entertainment companies to Washington, D.C., and chastened these executives about peddling violent music, films and games to kids. Even into the early days of autumn, it was hard to escape the horrible sound of politicians moralizing. The recent Federal Trade Commission report (which documented a few excesses among marketers of films) gave license to anyone who doesn't like the drift of today's popular culture - a bipartisan lot of bloviators that includes Lynne Cheney, Joe Liberman, John McCain and Joe Biden. Since they piled on from the left and the right, it was worth asking: What is behind the actions of these people? To grab easy headlines and avoid tough issues? Or to actually reduce violence among young people? Let's presume best intentions, even if there is actually no evidence that violent entertainment causes violent behavior (and there is some indication that it might even mitigate a kid's desire to act out). Then riddle me this: How is it that the rest of the world - even a neighbor as close as to Hollywood as Canada - happily consumes our culture but refrains from killing one another at the rate Americans do? The answer is guns, the easy availability of guns. There will always be schoolyard fights, but they don't have to be lethal. Guns are the second-leading cause of death among people ages fiften to twenty-four and the leading cause of death among African-American males in the same age group. Sixty-five percent of suicides comitted by boys ages ten to nineteen are carried out with some kind of firearm. The idea that films and music have made our society violent is utter bull****. The voters don't want the government censoring entertainment. Parents know this is a parent's job. Despite the depth and extent of the moralizing in Washington, this is notgoing to be an issue in the presidential campaign. As it was in previous government attacks against comic books and rock music, this is the worst kind of cynical posturing. It was bull**** then, and it's still bull****." --Robert Love, Managing Editor[/quote]
and
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>GUNS
GORE POSITION
*Supports mandatory registration of new handguns and a state-run system of photo-ID licensing for handgun owners.
*Wants a ban on "junk guns" and so-called Saturday night specials.
*Favors mandatory child-safety locks.
*Backs limiting gun purchases to one per month.
*Opposes the National Rifle Association: "Let us create a family lobby as powerful as the gun lobby."
GORE RECORD
*As a member of the House from pro-gun Tennessee in the 1980s, he voted often in support of NRA positions.
*But in 1984, he co-sponsored a bill to impose a five-year mandatory sentence on those using "cop-killer" bullets in federal crimes.
*He co-sponsored the Brady law, passed in 1994, which imposed a background check and a waiting period on new gun purchases, and supported the 1994 ban on certain semiautomatic weapons.
*In 1999, he cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on the bill to require background checks on buyers at gun shows.
BUSH POSITION
*Opposes new gun-control laws, preferring tougher enforcement of exisiting laws: "The best accountability for somebody who breaks the law with a gun is jail, certain jail."
*Opposes the '93 Brady law's required waiting period before gun purchases.
*Supports the law allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons.
*Opposes registration and licensing, and criticizes lawsuits targeting gun manufacturers.
*Supports a continued ban on assault weapons.
BUSH RECORD
*Supported and signed a law in 1995 extending the right of Texas citizens to carry concealed handguns in public places.
*Signed a '97 law extending that right to include churches, hospitals and amusement parks.
*Backed a law prohibiting cities in Texas from suing gun manufacturers for the cost of gun violence in 1999.
*Launched a satewide program that increases penalties for crimes committed using guns.
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Now, what do ya think about that?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Letter from the editor
We know what they did last summer. At the height of the campaign season, they summoned the heads of the great American entertainment companies to Washington, D.C., and chastened these executives about peddling violent music, films and games to kids. Even into the early days of autumn, it was hard to escape the horrible sound of politicians moralizing. The recent Federal Trade Commission report (which documented a few excesses among marketers of films) gave license to anyone who doesn't like the drift of today's popular culture - a bipartisan lot of bloviators that includes Lynne Cheney, Joe Liberman, John McCain and Joe Biden. Since they piled on from the left and the right, it was worth asking: What is behind the actions of these people? To grab easy headlines and avoid tough issues? Or to actually reduce violence among young people? Let's presume best intentions, even if there is actually no evidence that violent entertainment causes violent behavior (and there is some indication that it might even mitigate a kid's desire to act out). Then riddle me this: How is it that the rest of the world - even a neighbor as close as to Hollywood as Canada - happily consumes our culture but refrains from killing one another at the rate Americans do? The answer is guns, the easy availability of guns. There will always be schoolyard fights, but they don't have to be lethal. Guns are the second-leading cause of death among people ages fiften to twenty-four and the leading cause of death among African-American males in the same age group. Sixty-five percent of suicides comitted by boys ages ten to nineteen are carried out with some kind of firearm. The idea that films and music have made our society violent is utter bull****. The voters don't want the government censoring entertainment. Parents know this is a parent's job. Despite the depth and extent of the moralizing in Washington, this is notgoing to be an issue in the presidential campaign. As it was in previous government attacks against comic books and rock music, this is the worst kind of cynical posturing. It was bull**** then, and it's still bull****." --Robert Love, Managing Editor[/quote]
and
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>GUNS
GORE POSITION
*Supports mandatory registration of new handguns and a state-run system of photo-ID licensing for handgun owners.
*Wants a ban on "junk guns" and so-called Saturday night specials.
*Favors mandatory child-safety locks.
*Backs limiting gun purchases to one per month.
*Opposes the National Rifle Association: "Let us create a family lobby as powerful as the gun lobby."
GORE RECORD
*As a member of the House from pro-gun Tennessee in the 1980s, he voted often in support of NRA positions.
*But in 1984, he co-sponsored a bill to impose a five-year mandatory sentence on those using "cop-killer" bullets in federal crimes.
*He co-sponsored the Brady law, passed in 1994, which imposed a background check and a waiting period on new gun purchases, and supported the 1994 ban on certain semiautomatic weapons.
*In 1999, he cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on the bill to require background checks on buyers at gun shows.
BUSH POSITION
*Opposes new gun-control laws, preferring tougher enforcement of exisiting laws: "The best accountability for somebody who breaks the law with a gun is jail, certain jail."
*Opposes the '93 Brady law's required waiting period before gun purchases.
*Supports the law allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons.
*Opposes registration and licensing, and criticizes lawsuits targeting gun manufacturers.
*Supports a continued ban on assault weapons.
BUSH RECORD
*Supported and signed a law in 1995 extending the right of Texas citizens to carry concealed handguns in public places.
*Signed a '97 law extending that right to include churches, hospitals and amusement parks.
*Backed a law prohibiting cities in Texas from suing gun manufacturers for the cost of gun violence in 1999.
*Launched a satewide program that increases penalties for crimes committed using guns.
[/quote]
Now, what do ya think about that?
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[This message has been edited by KaMaKaZe (edited November 05, 2000).]