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In article <395s80$ob3@crchh518.bnr.ca> tomg@bnr.ca (Tom G) writes:
>From: tomg@bnr.ca (Tom G)
>Subject: Re: GUN CONTROL (was: Re: I'd just like to say I support Ann for Governor
>Date: 1 Nov 1994 11:00:48 -0600


>In article <wcaspers.50.00020535@bangate.compaq.com>, wcaspers@bangate.compaq.com (William Casperson) writes:
>> 
>> Also, the NRA introduces LOTS of crime bills.  The NRA is for criminal 
>> control. 

>Give us a break please.  The NRA is for GUNS, period.  If it means 
>suggesting legislation that ensures guns are available then they
>do it.  But the bottom line is free gun availability.

>This is like saying that cigarette producers give a crap about
>"freedom of choice".  All they care about is selling cigs.  Now
>that hardly anyone believes their former claims that cig smoking
>is not unhealthy, they have switched to this new approach, making
>it look like their main goal is support of rights.

>Cig companies wanna sell cigs.

>NRA wants guns.  Lots of 'em.  

So what if the NRA is for the second amendment?  The fact that I brought 
to light is that the NRA has also introduced quite a few bills to congress 
that support criminal control.  Some of them pass, a lot of them don't when 
people get wind that the NRA is backing them.  The NRA realizes the scope of 
the problem, criminals are not controlled in this country period.  The NRA 
does do a lot of good, IE.. who else is educating children of the harm of 
playing with guns?  I don't see Brady's group doing it.

Guns are a right and a reality in this country.  Criminals are a problem.  
Until we start spending more energy on dealing with criminals, and less on the 
use of firearms by the law abiding community, nothing useful is going to be 
accomplished.




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