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badams@cow-net.com wrote:

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>The Des Moines Register, Tuesday, December 23, 1997, Page 11A
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>                                ESSAY/COMMENT
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>                         IOWA VIEW / IVAN T. WEBBER
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>Gun control: Repeal 2nd Amendment
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>    We are not a safe country.  Our country has become a nation
>holding on to its civilization while camps of lunatics and
>marauders wander among us armed to the teeth with the most
>sophisticated and dangerous of high-tech weapons. 

Is this really happening in Des Moines, Iowa? 
Or anywhere in Iowa?

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>    But as complicated as the causes are, the solution is simple. 
>We need look no farther than Canada, Western Europe or Japan for
>the results of effective gun-control laws. 

If the Canadian gun control laws were effective, then the
crime rate involving firearms would be the same in all
regions of Canada.  It isn't.   Nor is the crime rate
dependent on the number of firearms available in a region.

There is a regional disparity in the United States regarding
firearms crime.   Des Moines, Iowa does not have the same
crime rate as New York City, or Fargo, N.D.  
Restrictive regulation of firearms will not regulate the
values and morality of those inclined to commit criminal
acts.  They will ignore the firearms law as they ignore
other laws.

>    Or if that is too much, then think of the choice as between a
>system in which young people can safely gather in a circle to pray
>and one in which guns are so easily obtained that even the most
>gentle of our young can have their lives taken by a teen-ager with
>a high-tech weapon.

A small proportion of young people have not learned respect
for others, for some this includes respect for human life.  
There have been teenage gangs in Canada who have beaten
their victims to death, run them over with automobiles or
set fire to them. 
They have boots, chains, knives, cars, gasoline, and
matches.
- they don't really need "high tech weapons".
What they do need is a respect for other people and the law!

Some  young people think it is acceptable to break the law,
whether it be "smoking a joint", breaking and entering,
lying and fraud, etc.   These kids think it only
unacceptable to be caught.   Gosh, they could be politicians
in a few years.


>IVAN T. WEBBER is a Des Moines attorney.
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>The Des Moines Register, Tuesday, December 23, 1997, Page 11A Fax
>515-286-2511 * Email: letters@news.dmreg.com
>http://cud.cow-net.com/badams/index.htm
>Barry Adams  
>Duncan,B.C.,Canada

Kindest regards,

Jerrold