You can relax! I don't own a gun. I did belong to the Junior NRA when I
was a teenager and had several rifles and a shotgun then. I appreciate the
mechanical and artistic aspects of guns, but choose not to own one.
Of all the gun owners I know (an ex-cop, a religious zealot, and an avid
hunter) share very conservative politics. If the military were to declare
martial law in the US to keep the peace or for some other fabricated reason,
these guys would join citizen militias to assist the military, not to stop
them! I would guess that the profile of these three guys is not all that
different than most gun owners.
Don Scott
At 02:20 PM 07/30/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Jeez don, as I may resemble certain parts of this, I sure hope you don't own a
>firearm. John
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>> The American fascination with guns (and big trucks and SUV's) accompanies a
>> rise in right-wing political extremism. They go hand in hand (no pun
intended).
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>> Our AM radio stations are full of ultra-conservative talk shows that seem to
>> have indoctrinated a rather uncritical naive audience. Rush Limbaugh is the
>> most famous of these talk show hosts. Americans are stuck in traffic in
>> their cars and just suck this crap up.
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>> Hell, the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates from the
>> Republican party are pro-military, anti-environment, allied with the
>> right-wing Christian movement, pro-gun rights, anti-conservation, favor
>> reducing taxes on the wealthy, anti-abortion, anti-mass transit, strongly
>> against drug use, anti-labor union, very pro-corporate, and so on. Hitler
>> and Mussolini would have been proud of them! Strangely, the F word
>> (fascism) is never mentioned in connection with the current brand of
>> extremism that is popular in this country. Chances are the Republicans will
>> be elected as they are running ahead in opinion polls throughout the
>> country. Not that long ago (pre-Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater),
>> Republicans did not represent this type of extremism. And sadly, even the
>> Democrats of today are not all that much different than the current
>> Republicans.
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>> Just my two cents as an MG owner whose politics are as anachronistic as his
>> car.
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>> Don Scott
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>> '62 MGA
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