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Re: What Do Dictators Fear Most? GUNS in the hands of the People! Isnt that right Mr. Castro???????? Re: Shooting At The ...

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From: TxDude
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:29:14 GMT, gworley@brokersys.com (George Worley) wrote:
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>In 1995 (sorry don't have the figures for 1996 or 1997), there were
>more the 5000 innocent children killed by guns.

Actually less than 40 kids under the age of 12 are killed by guns per
year. More kids die by drowning at this age than guns. In order to 
get these stats......the gun control crowd counts "kids" as being up
to 22 yrs of age. Which includes many of the gang-banger drug dealing
crowd in the inner cities as part of the stats.


>gives you the right to own and carry guns.  Our forefathers when the
>wrote this probably was not referring to weapons of mass destruction
>like AK-47's and other assault rifles, these type weapons were made
>for only one purpose -- to kill another human being and at last check


I guess mine are all defective......for 30 yrs they haven't killed anyone.
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From: rduncan@ticnet.com (TxDude)
Subject: Re: What Do Dictators Fear Most?  GUNS in the hands of the People!  Isnt that right Mr. Castro????????      Re: Shooting At The Capital
Date: 1998/07/28
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