<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hmmmm, lets see... whats more likely to get you killed? Driving into a high crime area unarmed, or pulling out your six-shooter and playing Marshall Dillon with the bad guys. "Yes sir, this here cargo's so valuable, I'd give up my life for it." </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Stuff can be replaced (and it's probably insured). Lives can't.</span></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-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"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Ron Force <rforce2003@yahoo.com>; Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 5, 2012 2:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Second Amendment Remedy<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div style=""><span style="">One complaint about gun laws right now is that <span style="" id="yiv2073084644misspell-0">commercial</span> truck drivers, who live in their trucks, are banned from legally carrying any weapons for self defense. Many are also required for their job to drive into dangerous high crime areas with valuable cargo. <var id="yiv2073084644yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></div>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">From:</span></b> Ron Force <rforce2003@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:08 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Second Amendment Remedy<br></font></div><br>
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<div><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">From Knute Berger:</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">...Unfortunately, many pro-gun legislators in Oly are also pushing more and more to cut government funding. The result is an increasingly armed populace and fewer resources to identify and treat people who are mentally ill and potentially violent. Ian Stawicki, who shot down his fellow Café Racer regulars and the mom at Town Hall, was known to be mentally unbalanced by his family and friends, and he had a domestic violence record. Yet he was well armed and untreated.</span><br style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span
style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">A democracy needs an educated citizenry. An uninformed society, James Madison said, </span><a rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: invert none 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; " target="_blank" href="http://classicliberal.tripod.com/madison/">leads to “farce or a tragedy.</a><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">” But a heavily armed democracy must also have a commitment to sanity and humanity. It does little good to say the mentally ill can’t own
firearms if you can’t identify who they are, if you can’t disarm them and if you don’t have the resources to treat them.</span><br style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Failing to follow through with sane policy also contributes to tragedy, as we’re learning the hard way.</span> <br></div>
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