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Subject: [Leica] Gun Control
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:27:24 -0600
References: <AC0BD21D-77D4-4FA5-8B76-0883CD98A9B6@yahoo.com.sg> <A8AB9D49-47F1-4053-8912-CD80AD87144D@gmail.com>

That is a sensible article, Leo.  Quite different from this morning's quote 
from Mike Huckabee, blaming the shooting on lack of God in 
schools..............

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo Wesson" <leowesson at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Gun Control


> As I was folding my 7 year olds clothes last night I had to fight back a 
> tear as I thought of a parent doing the same for a child who along with 
> 19 of her friends would no longer need those clothes.
>
> A well written article from our local paper.
>
> http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/15/4487753/school-killers-mom-made-irresponsible.html?storylink=addthis#.UM3mYCPPkll.twitter
>
> Leo Wesson
> www.leowesson.com
>
> On Dec 15, 2012, at 23:18, David Ching <davidhhching1 at yahoo.com.sg> 
> wrote:
>
>> I suppose you use your hammers more often than guns. Or had improper 
>> training. Hence the smashed fingers.
>>
>> By the same logic, as you are more careful as you are with guns, you are 
>> less likely to shoot yourself or others by accident. Same goes for the 
>> hammers.
>>
>> BTW, guns are permitted by the authorities in Malaysia, Thailand and 
>> several other Asian countries for wild-life hunting especially in farmed 
>> lands. Will you really need guns to protect yourself from other humans 
>> assuming all the two-legged do not own guns? But only to get rid of 
>> dangerous animals?
>>
>> Despite certain civilians being allowed to have guns under strict rules, 
>> there has never been incidences of mass killings amongst the civilian 
>> populations here. Obviously guns are too easily available despite all 
>> measures of gun control in the USA.
>>
>> Interestingly it was the armed civilians of pre-Independent America who 
>> got rid of the English. But today, who are the armed citizenry of America 
>> trying to get rid off. The drug lords, the mafia, the school bullies? Arm 
>> the peace-keepers only. Let them do their jobs. Disarm everyone else, 
>> except farmers and the like.
>>
>> And let the rest of us shoot our cameras in peace.
>>
>> For the sake of our children, bite the bullet.
>>
>> David Ching
>>
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>>                    : +65 92321098 (Singapore)
>>
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