<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">From Knute Berger:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">...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="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">A democracy needs an educated citizenry. An uninformed society, James Madison said, </span><a href="http://classicliberal.tripod.com/madison/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;
vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; line-height: 18px; ">leads to “farce or a tragedy.</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">” 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="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Failing to follow through with sane policy also contributes to tragedy, as we’re learning the hard
way.</span> <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><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"> <hr size="1"> </font></div><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>