<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ron,</div><div><br></div>And do you want to bet that Reginald Denny wished he was armed or was he better off unarmed?<div><br></div><div>From TIME: </div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Taking a shortcut off the Santa Monica Freeway down Normandie Avenue was nothing out of the ordinary for 33-year-old Reginald Denny. In the late afternoon of April 29, 1992, he had simply loaded up his 18-wheeler and headed down the road, driving for his employer Transit Mixed Concrete. Little did he know that he would drive smack into the middle of an angry mob looking for vengeance.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">As his rig crossed Florence, a group of rioters enraged over the Rodney King verdict rushed toward him, pulled him out of the cab and beat him to within an inch of his life. The attack ended when <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614510,00.html" target="_self" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; ">Damian Monroe Williams</a> took a cinderblock and bashed Denny's skull, fracturing it in 91 places and causing severe brain damage."</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><br><br></span></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wayne</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Ron Force wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><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 <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Ron Force <<a href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</a>>; Moscow Vision2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <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> <div id="yiv2073084644"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style=""><span style="">Easy access to guns and limited access to mental health services don't mix. </span></div> <div style=""><span style=""></span> </div> <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> <div style=""><span style=""></span> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><span style="">Donovan J. Arnold</span></div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><br style=""></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="" dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">From:</span></b> Ron Force <<a href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT:bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <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> <div id="yiv2073084644"> <div> <div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; "> <div><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">From Knute Berger:</span></div> <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; "><br></span></div> <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> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><br></div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><span><a href="http://crosscut.com/2012/09/05/mossback/110281/seattle-shooting-ian-stawicki-gun-control/">http://crosscut.com/2012/09/05/mossback/110281/seattle-shooting-ian-stawicki-gun-control/</a> <br></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"> </font></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/">http://www.fsr.net/</a><br> mailto:<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br></div></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 Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>