Date: Mon Oct 25 06:44:00 1999 From: twep@FLASH.NET (Bernie Oliver) Subject: Re: carlos is quoted in republic To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
LARRY JOHNSON wrote: >
> Next came Alice Harbert, 79, handing > over a tiny, silver-and-pink, .25-caliber > Lorcin handgun. > > "My husband shot squirrels and rabbits > back in Iowa when we needed the food," > she said. "But he passed on, and I don't > want it."
"...shot squirrels and rabbits back in Iowa when we needed the food."??? With a .25 Lorcin handgun??? Damn! That's impressive. Were they in a cage?
> Wilcox knows that kids in gangs or > criminals won't turn in guns, that most > people dropping off their guns. haven't > used them in years and simply want to get > rid of them. She's read the studies saying > that the buybacks don't affect rates of > firearm injuries, deaths and crimes.
So what was the point? > > But Wilcox, who was shot in the pelvis by > a would-be assassin in 1997 as she left a > supervisors meeting, thinks the fewer guns > here are, the better.
Perhaps we should disarm the police. After all, fewer guns is better, given her logic (or lack of). > > "I think every gun you can take out, you > somehow affect how much violence is out > there," she said.
Ah, then Mary Rose has seen Rules of Engagement. >
> As much as it is about getting guns off the > street, Wilcox said the buyback is > symbolic: "We have to show we care. If > we don't do it, who will?"
To hell, you say. Who would have guessed that it was symbolic. This crap makes me want to hurl! I would be embarrassed to publicly admit that I was so stupid (I prefer to be a closet idiot, I guess). > Bernie -- This is the first day of the last of your Rights.