<div dir="ltr"><div>The rally may have been billed as "anti-gun violence" but the rhetoric, both spoken and printed, was with out question anti-gun and anti-second amendment. It would not have required much intellectual firepower to have been able to predict the <span>direction</span> the gathering would take and to react accordingly.
</div><div> </div><div>g</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Saundra Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue" bgcolor="white"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Uh, Paul – perhaps I’m missing your point, but I really don’t understand your post below.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Did you miss the fact that the rally at Friendship Square was a public statement against <b>gun violence</b>? Which, BTW, is why it was so stupid of those maroons to show up to protest. Surely they don’t support gun violence, do they? Or, maybe they do . . . maybe their intellect has been so poisoned by the NRA & 2A propaganda that they don’t realize that demonstrating against those who are against gun violence is ridiculous.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Also, do you think strengthening background checks only applies to long guns? That’s certainly <b>not</b> the message I got from reading the proposals, but if you understand something different, please do share.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">And, do you not think limiting the sizes of clips applies to handguns?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">What about closing the gun show loophole and putting in some specific and stronger penalties for straw purchasers – do you think neither of those apply to handguns?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Finally, you wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">“</span>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”<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">That’s utter rot, but I suspect you know that. Do you think those of us against gun violence just started our battle after the SHES shooting? If so, I can only suggest that you stop keeping your head where the sun don’t shine and get out of your echo chamber because clearly neither are good for you! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Saundra<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Moscow, ID<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">~ Aesop (The Lion and the Mouse)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181,196,223) currentColor currentColor;padding:3pt 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Rumelhart<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] How many more rounds are we going to let this go on for?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><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">gunpolicy.org</a> (<a href="http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states" target="_blank">http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states</a>). 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>
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