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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rose says in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“I don’t think that Dan meant to leave the impression that he believes the “freedom” to own guns was the root cause of the tragedy in Phoenix.”</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are correct. I mean freedom in general. We live in a free society. You can buy whichever car you can (or can’t) afford, you can cross state lines without needing papers, you can live anywhere in this great land you choose, shop online, buy locally, burn a flag, give someone the finger, assemble and demonstrate, march, whatever . . . I may not agree with whatever it is you do (who the hell would want to live anywhere but here?) but you have the freedom to do it. Even if you are mentally ill. It’s a risk we take as a free society. Sometimes it bites us in the ass. All we can do is learn from that “bite” and try and prevent the next incident, hopefully without squashing anyone’s rights as a citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mind you, from what I’ve seen of this Laughner fellow, he’s a sick and twisted man, almost bordering on evil. I’m not defending him by any means, nor giving him any excuses. It might not matter one iota if he’d received the best mental health care or was banned from purchasing firearms. If not a gun, it might have been a knife. Or a car. Or anything. If one is determined, one will find a way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your pal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Rosemary Huskey [mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 28, 2011 9:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Dan Carscallen'; 'vision 2020'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>An interesting background explanation (written with lay people like me in mind) of the second amendment can be found at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution</a>. Untreated mentally ill people are found in all cultures/societies. I don’t think that Dan meant to leave the impression that he believes the “freedom” to own guns was the root cause of the tragedy in Phoenix. However, it does seem likely that the ease with which innocent people can be shot, rests entirely on the availability of guns in this country. I am a gun owner, and I am disgusted beyond measure by the NRA’s “control” over legislators. What kind of unfathomable jackass would trade unlimited access to guns and bullets for campaign support? It is astonishing to me how gun rights issues makes super, constitution-loving patriots out of folks who couldn’t intelligently articulate any other section or amendment in the constitution. Does anyone know how many gun owners - protecting their lives (not their property which, frankly should not be on par with bodily harm) - against the villains among us, occur each day? How does that number compare to the number of accidental deaths or gun related murders? And, while the vicious rhetoric spewing from Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and their remarkably stupid and ill-informed female counterpoints, of yeah, I mean Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and the profoundly confused Virginia Foxx - may not drive relatively mentally healthy person to become killers, those struggling with significant mental illness (with components of severe paranoia) may, in some degree, be encouraged by these predatory agitators. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]">[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Carscallen<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 28, 2011 7:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'vision 2020'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vizzz peeps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We live in a free society. One of the prices we pay for living here is that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any minute. Should they be? Probably not, but who is to say when and how these folks should be rounded up and treated? Sure, I think all of us can talk about the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are we supposed to do? Call the cops and have them haul him in because he doesn’t fit society’s norm? I think there are a lot of folks, right here on the Vizzz even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”. But we go along and live our lives in our free society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors, and they said “yes, he seemed like a nutjob”, but what were they to do? They watched him, kept their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could. Unfortunately, he “slipped through the cracks”. Should he have been prevented from buying a pistol? Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn’t a convicted felon, he answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money. It’s not a speedy process, no matter who or where you are. Even with a concealed weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by any means. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This can’t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps, the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the United States of America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your pal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>