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In ca.general Dick <tjdick@my-deja.com> wrote:


: It bugs me that thinkers (such as Merlin Dorfman with whom I recently
: corresponded and who unquestionably has a mind) become quite irrational
: when it comes to guns.  I am *NOT* picking on Merlin, but here is a
: prime example of hysteria eclipsing reason:

: Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@netcom12.netcom.com> wrote:
:>>     It's not the CCW holders I'm worried about.  It's the arms
:>> race when the gang bangers, drug lords, etc. discover that the
:>> victims are shooting back.  Is the next step a permit to carry
:>> an Uzi to match the bad guys?

     Thanks...I think.  Anyway, it bugs me that SOME gun owners (I
don't know if you are among them or not) and the organization that
claims to represent gun owners stonewall over almost any regulation
of gun ownership, or even validating that someone who wants to buy
a gun is not an escaped mental patient or recently paroled felon, 
or sees a limit of one gun purchase a day as an unthinkable
subversion of the constitution.  

....
: People like us have nothing to do with the deranged shooters.  

      I never claimed you did, or tried to disarm you.  I would
sure like to make it more difficult for said deranged shooters
to get guns, however...and I would think you would, too.
    
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: 84% of line officers (the ones who do the work, not the chiefs) favor
: private ownership of firearms.

     I have to question that statistic...and wonder why the brass
would have an opinion so different from the guys in the trenches...
which used to include said brass.  (There are very few political
appointments of police chiefs, etc., who were never "line
officers" themselves.)