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Thread #21277   Message #225919
Posted By: GUEST,Common Sense
10-May-00 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: It was the guns (Columbine HS)
Subject: RE: IT WAS THE GUNS-
When you strike your thumb with the hammer, don't blame the hammer. Like a hammer, firearms are tools. It is a tool of precision and of destruction.

Restricting access to someone with an 'undiagnosed' condition is not possible without restricting or infringing upon the rights of others to keep and bear arms. That right is the key to our freedom.

Scottish games are a holdover from when large rocks and heavy poles were used to train for war by the Scots. The Scots did this because thier ability to keep and bear arms was denied by the King of England.

That King's successor wanted to do the same in the Colonies. He sent troops to sieze the colonial's arms at Concord Mass. En Route at Lexington, a shot was fired that was hear 'round the world.

We do have restrictions on those already diagnosed. We have controls on youths carrying firearms. We do not enforce those existing laws yet. Let's keep pressure on the politicians to enforce those laws now. It will work. If it doesn't, then we can worry about new laws.

In reality, it is the population who enforces any compliance with gun control laws now. The honest citizen complies, the criminals do not.

Common sense.