[Vision2020] How many more rounds are we going to let this go on for?

[Donovan Arnold]

Military weapons in civilian populations is avoidable but handguns are not. Someone with a handgun is not capable of killing many people very quickly like someone with military grade weaponry. It can take minutes or hours for them to be disarmed while they kill everyone within sight. With a hand gun they get a few shots off and the people next to him/her have them on the floor disarmed and incapacitated within seconds. There also maybe a need for a hand gun, but not a machine gun on Main Street. 
 
The right to have arms to protect yourself and property is a long held right even by peasants and landlords when they were subjects of kings and queens. It didn't start with the US Constitution. I believe people need something besides baseball bats and pitchforks to defend themselves and family, like a handgun. They do not need unlimited firepower or military grade weapons.
 
Donovan J. Arnold

From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> 
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] How many more rounds are we going to let this go on for?



If people are so worried about guns, then why aren't we talking about handguns?  Handgun-related homicides are much more frequent than "long gun" related ones, by an order of magnitude (6501 vs. 774 in 2009), according to gunpolicy.org (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states).  Not every rifle-related homicide is a spree shooting, either.

Not that I want the gun control advocates to go there, mind you, but that would at least make sense.  Otherwise, I have to conclude that it's the sensationalism of a spree shooting that has everybody incensed.  I guess nobody gets fired up about the 17 (on average) people of all ages that are killed by handguns every day in the U.S., probably because it doesn't dominate the media for months at a time every time it happens, like we see with spree shootings.  

Paul

On 04/10/2013 06:20 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:


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