<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>Some forefathers thought we all ought to own guns, yes. They also thought we all ought to own slaves, <span id="misspell-0"><span>subjugate </span></span>women to men's demands, and slaughter the native people. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>We need to think for ourselves, and decide for ourselves and live for ourselves. Sure there are things, people, and ideas we should learn and take from the past, but they are just that, the past, people, and ideas. They are not absolute truths, Gods, or edicts. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>The Constitution is a living document, it was meant to be a document of the now and future not the past, and not to allow it to change and adapt to the time in which it is now, is to <span
id="misspell-0"><span>squelch</span></span> the life out of it and render it worthless.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span></span> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Wayne Price <bear@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Jus' Another Day on Campus . . .<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1351595151"><div>Oh Paul, There you go with all that Constitutional stuff again! Don't you know that there are local luminaries that KNOW BETTER than you and the founding fathers do and THEY <div>will decide who can have firearms! Besides, don't you realize that the POLICE will decide what is best if they don't? Just as the green house owner that the POLICE gunned down on his own </div><div>property up in Spokane, or Otto Zehm! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wayne <br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:</div><br class="yiv1351595151Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span>That would be a great argument if our forefathers hadn't decided to put the right to bear arms in as the second amendment,
which leads me to believe that they thought it was important. Important enough, perhaps, that the benefit is not outweighed by the added danger of guns being used at drunken brawls at fraternities at 8am in the morning.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I also tend to believe that simple access to weapons does not ensure their use, even by drunken frat boys. Besides, if someone had said "I have to warn you that I'm armed, so why don't we all just calm down and go our separate ways?" might have led to a better outcome overall. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Paul<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height:
0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:19 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Jus' Another Day on Campus . . .<br> </font> </div> <br> <div
id="yiv1351595151"><div><div>Mr. Rumelhart sarcastically suggests:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 16px;" class="yiv1351595151Apple-style-span">If we hadn't had the foresight to restrict their Constitutionally-mandated right to bear arms then I'm sure this little fist fight would have turned into a reenactment of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys."</span></div><div><font class="yiv1351595151Apple-style-span" size="4" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="yiv1351595151Apple-style-span"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="yiv1351595151Apple-style-span" size="4" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="yiv1351595151Apple-style-span">The likelihood of serious injury (or worse) is drastically increased by the introduction of firearms into such a mature, responsible activity as a multiple-fraternity brawl at 8:00 in
the morning. Dontcha think, Mr. Rumelhart? Or dontcha think?<br></span></font><br><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Spokane, Washington</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div><div><br>On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">If we hadn't had the foresight to restrict their Constitutionally-mandated right to bear arms then I'm sure this little fist fight would have turned into a reenactment of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys.</blockquote><div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></div>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the
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