In a message dated 07/12/2000 8:42:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
type79@ix.netcom.com writes:
<< This is an interesting story.
I don't think it has a great deal of relevance to those of us in the United
States, >>
OOPPPS, almost missed replying to the opening gambit (aside from the bag o
worms bit..I was just trying to stir up the list a little, and I did just
receive the story and thought it was important to spead).
I think it is indeed relevant to those of us in the United States because I
truly think that there are a great number of narrow thinking people in the US
that would just as soon have guns outlawed altogether. I say narrow and
unthinking because I live just north of a country where private ownership of
a gun is almost impossible, but public machine gunnings are almost common
place. A young mother just died last week in Juarez when the shooters (not
leagal owners of any weapons) offed a fellow drug dealer and sprayed down the
neighboring filling station at the same time.
I would not join the NRA for years and did not want to be considered a "gun
nut" but it seems clear to me now that there is an agenda being pushed that
will regester, then restrict, and finally outlaw gun ownership.
RH
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