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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Make it pink and add a hello kitty picture----if he
can erectile function after that, he is a keeper! He's not testosterone
inflamed, he has a sense of humor, and he's not a "gun nut", just a
hunter.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=moscowcares@moscow.com href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">Moscow
Cares</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ngier006@gmail.com
href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">Nicholas Gier</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 09, 2013 10:38
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] The Gun-Crazed
Hermit of the Applegate: ChinesePhilosophy, Machismo, and Gun Violence (Part
1)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The NRA's cure for E.D. (Erectional Dysfunction) . . .</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><IMG id=21D86954-89C7-4A66-A76C-4A28B0DA5F88
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<DIV>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>"<SPAN
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room at the top they are telling you still</SPAN><SPAN
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first you must learn how to smile as you kill </SPAN><BR
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you want to be like the folks on the hill."</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN
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John Lennon<BR></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR>On Feb 9, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Nicholas Gier <<A
href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings Visionaries:
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>It's taken me a while to find my voice on this issue, but here it is.
The full version filled up an entire page of the Feb. 5 issue of The
Los Cabos Daily News, the Moscow-Pullman Daily New's totally unofficial
sister paper. I hope that Murf will publish the 650-word version
(very, very painful editing) for Palouse readers as well.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Instead of giving you the short version, I'm posting the full version
in two parts. I'm usually just a "Just the Facts, Madam" writer, but
I've resorted to satire and sarcasm for this one. For the few that can't
wait or even care, the full version is attached.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Although I support universal, interstate background checks, no gun show
loopholes, a ban on assault rifles, and a limit of 10-round magazines, we
will need to address basic problems of our gun-crazed culture. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>When I was hitch-hiking and climbing in the Swiss Alps in 1967, I was
invited into a Swiss home for a snack. I remarked on the
semi-automatic rifle standing in the corner of the room, and my host said
that nearly every Swiss home had one. This guy also had enough explosives to
blow up a local bridge if there were an invasion. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>But here is the catch: the Swiss have a gun death rate of 3.84 per
100,000, but we kill at a rate of 10.2 per 100,000. Only some violent
Latin American countries (where machismo reigns supreme) and Swaziland kill
more.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The sub-titles for Part 2 are "The Final Straw (Bean?): Tofu and the
Land of Hindu Effeminates," "Lederhosen, Kilts, Barbies, and Mounties,"
"Balance Yin and Yang for Less Bang," and "The Gun-Crazed Hermit of the
Applegate."</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Yours for a better balance of Yin and Yang,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Nick</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
Gun-Crazed Hermit of the Applegate:<BR clear=all>Chinese Philosophy,
Machismo, and Gun Violence</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Guns
may not kill people (on their own), but disaffected men</SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">with
easy access to guns and little understanding of how to <BR clear=all>safely
express their frustrations with the world certainly do.</SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></I></P>
<H1
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"
align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">—</SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: #111111; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Emma
Gray, <I>The Huffington Post</I> (12/18/12)</SPAN></H1>
<H1
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white"
align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN> </H1>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
school shooters and domestic terrorists all exhibit male rage. They
<BR clear=all>attempt to resolve a crisis of masculinity through violent
behavior, demonstrate a fetish for guns or weapons, and represent a
situation of guys and guns amok.</SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">—</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Douglas
Kellner, UCLA Professor of Education<I></I></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
things of the world carry Yin [female] <BR clear=all>on their backs, and
embrace the Yang [male]. <BR clear=all>They exhaust their </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">qi
<I>[cosmic energy] in harmony.</I></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><I><BR></I></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">—<I>Dao
De Jing</I>, #42 (trans. Robert Eno)</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
It was the summer of 1960, I was a naïve 16-year-old, and I was smitten.
Even though a family friend’s daughter had a mad crush on me, I had been
seduced by something even more alluring and far less complicated than
teenage romance. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<B>A Guy and His Gun: A Love Story</B></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
had bought an army surplus .30-06 Springfield rifle and I was in love. I
spent many dollars on a new stock and a 3 x 7 Bosch & Lomb scope. A gun
smith had completely refurbished the bolt action and barrel. There was a
spring in my step when I picked up boxes of army ammo at the Railway Express
Station. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
single shot .22 rifle that my dad bought me when I was 12 was just a
plinker. This army rifle made me feel like a man for the first time.
Instead of having a picture of a girlfriend in my wallet, I had a picture of
my reblued, scoped rifle.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
Bushmaster Man Card</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">According
a two-year ad campaign by Bushmaster, the maker of the AR-15 semi-automatic
rifle, I was a “card carrying man.” One of the principal
qualifications for getting your card is being able to stare down a tough
5<SUP>th</SUP> grader. Adam Lanza started with first graders, but I’m sure
that he was still allowed to carry his Bushmaster Man Card.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If
I could have bought an M-1 Garand, the semi-automatic assault rifle of my
gun-crazed days, perhaps I would become even a greater male. But the
real men of today would be terribly disappointed with its 8-shot magazine.
Today that unsuspecting deer, intruder, or grade schooler must end up
like Swiss cheese.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
.30-06 was gun enough for me. There were lots of squirrels out at an
abandoned army base near my home town of Medford, Oregon. Not
realizing the ricochet dangers, I shot up dozens of boxes of ammo at the
squirrels in the concrete foundations of dismantled barracks. I don’t
remember killing a single animal, and I never became a good shot. That
and my poor fly fishing skills have kept my karmic debt fairly low.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">During
my short hunting career I was lucky enough to get two deer at very close
range. The one buck was lame (I kid you not). One chilly afternoon in
Oregon’s Blue Mountains, I shot my first and only elk, a 500-pound spike
bull. I emptied my 5-round magazine on him and I was amazed that he
dropped. All the machismo drained out of me, however, when I went over
and shot him in the head with my .22 revolver. The hollow-point shells
simply bounced off his skull.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My
Slow Descent Into Unmanliness</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thus
began my slow but steady descent into unmanliness. Any card-carrying
man can send a request to Bushmaster to revoke another man’s card. If
you are “a cry baby,” “a cupcake,” “on a short leash,” or “just plain
unmanly,” you are unfit for male duty and cannot be trusted with a gun.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My
first step on this slippery slope was a cowardly transfer from the hard
sciences to the soft humanities at Oregon State University. Then I
received a Rotary fellowship for a year in Denmark, where the citizens,
softened by sissy socialism, refuse to protect their homes with
firearms. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Denmark’s
gun death rate of 1.45 per 100,000 stands in stark contrast to the U.S. at
10.2, but that is a small price to pay for the freedom to pack heat. For
every Dane who kills himself with a gun, there are six Americans who go out
in glory with their handy firearms.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bushmaster’s
“short leash” must mean that proverbial wifely tether. Well, here I
must also plead guilty. When we arrived in Moscow and settled in, I brought
out my .30-06 to show to my new Danish bride. She was not impressed.
She told me that it was either her or the gun. For 16 years I chose
her and a safe home for our wonderful daughter. Homes with guns have
far higher child deaths.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Armed
homes are not safe for women either. A study by the <I>American
Journal of Public Health</I> concluded that women were eight times more
likely to be killed in the home by abusive men if they were
armed.</SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
In the same year Douglas Wiebe of the University of Pennsylvania found “that
females living with a gun in the home were 2.7 times more likely to be
murdered than females with no gun at home.”</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To
be continued . . . .</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><GunMachismo.pdf></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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