<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Military weapons in civilian populations is <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>avoidable</SPAN></SPAN> but<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> handguns are not. Someone with a handgun is not capable of killing many people very quickly like someone with military grade <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0>weaponry</SPAN>. It can take minutes or hours for them to be disarmed while they kill everyone within sight. With a hand gun they get a few shots off and the people next to him/her have them on the floor disarmed and <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>incapacitated</SPAN></SPAN> within seconds. There also maybe a need for a hand gun, but not a machine gun on Main Street. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 11px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The right to have arms to protect yourself and property is a long held right even by <SPAN id=misspell-2><SPAN>peasants</SPAN></SPAN> and landlords when they were subjects of kings and queens. It <SPAN id=misspell-3><SPAN>didn't</SPAN></SPAN> start with the US Constitution. I believe people need something besides baseball bats and pitchforks to defend themselves and family, like a handgun. They do not need unlimited firepower or military grade weapons.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV class=yiv54886029moz-cite-prefix><BR>If people are so worried about guns, then why aren't we talking about handguns? Handgun-related homicides are much more frequent than "long gun" related ones, by an order of magnitude (6501 vs. 774 in 2009), according to <A href="http://gunpolicy.org/" target=_blank><SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>gunpolicy</SPAN>.org</A> (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states). Not every rifle-related homicide is a spree shooting, either.<BR><BR>Not that I want the gun control advocates to go there, mind you, but that would at least make sense. Otherwise, I have to conclude that it's the sensationalism of a spree shooting that has everybody incensed. I guess nobody gets fired up about the 17 (on average) people of all ages that are killed by handguns every day in the U.S., probably because it doesn't dominate the media for months at a time every time it happens, like we see with spree
shootings. <BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>On 04/10/2013 06:20 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:<BR></DIV>
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