<div dir="ltr" style=""><div>My computer has bee down for two weeks, so I am just now going through my email and doing mostly deletes.</div><div>In regard to Pitts's poem, I am not a big fan of open carry, but concealed carry is fine. There you have to have had some training and presumably know a little bit about gun safety. The people in the </div><div>south wanted to disarm the Negroes because that made it easier and safer for them to bully negroes. The Deacons for Defense were armed and said "If you shout at us we will shoot back"  Ida B. Wells as well as others were also armed and for good reason.</div><div><br /></div><div>Roger<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid;">-----Original Message-----<br />Subject: [Vision2020] "If I Only Had a Gun"<br />From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><br />To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br />Date: 10/26/15 12:06:42<br /><br />

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<b>"If I Only Had a Gun"</b> (words by Leonard Pitts Jr.)</div>
<div>Sung to the tune "If I Only Had a Heart" from the Wizard of Oz</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"When a man's an empty holster, no courage does he bolster</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What a difference he'd be makin', he could finally stop his quakin'</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If he only had a gun</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He could stand a little straighter with that ultimate persuader</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And wouldn't that be fun?</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He could put an end to static with a semiautomatic</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If he only had a gun</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Can't you see, how it would be?</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Woe would avoid his door</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crazy guy would pass him by</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or else he'd shoot - and shoot some more</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh, the shootin' he'd be doin', and all the ballyhooin'</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The way the folks would run</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His life would be so merry in a world of open carry</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If he only had a gun."</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span>
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