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Lucinda Roy has an op-ed in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/opinion/17roy.html
On 4/17/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jane Smiley on guns etc (in Huffingtonpost today:
>
> >>But that's how it is with the right wing, isn't it? Grievance is
> something they do, no matter how much power they have. They are
> shocked, shocked, that they don't have all the power, shocked and
> victimized and angry. You could tell it in Bush's response to today's
> shooting. First he said he was shocked and saddened. Then he said
> everyone has the right to bear arms. He wouldn't want to let any of
> those NRA-types imagine for a second that any amount of senseless
> killing could possibly shake his commitment to a fully-armed populace.
>
> Here's what I think about guns--guns have no other purpose than killing
> someone or something. All the other murder weapons Americans use, from
> automobiles to blunt objects, exist for another purpose and sometimes
> are used to kill. But guns are manufactured and bought to kill. They
> invite their owners to think about killing, to practice killing, and,
> eventually, to kill, if not other people, then animals. They are
> objects of temptation, and every so often, someone comes along who
> cannot resist the temptation--someone who would not have murdered, or
> murdered so many, if he did not have a gun, if he were reduced to a
> knife or a bludgeon or his own strength. I wish that the right wing
> would admit that, while people kill people and even an "automatic"
> weapon needs a shooter, people with guns kill more people than people
> without guns do.<<
>
> Doug
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