[lit-ideas] Re: Gun Control

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:25:08 -0400 (EDT)

I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the worst school shooting incident in history was in Germany, and they have very strict gun control laws.  All countries have school shootings.  I don't know if we have more or fewer.

Regarding the 28,000 square foot house, maybe he needs to get it out of his system.  Sometimes it takes someone rich to be generous and sometimes it doesn't.  Warren Buffet is still living in his colonial that he bought in the 50's, but he wouldn't give his wife a $15,000 kitchen renovation, won't give a dime to his kids.  FDR was as sympathetic with regular people as he was because of his polio.  Without it he would have been just another rich guy hording stuff under his mattress.  It gave him a heart and he turned against his class.  I wonder, if I made millions (and he did do it prosecuting corporations), would I build a 28,000 square foot house?  No.  I'd buy an island.  The guy has no taste at all.  On the other hand, islands have bugs on them, don't they?  On second thought, maybe I'd just hire someone to do my grocery shopping for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Geary
Sent: Apr 18, 2007 5:18 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Gun Control

From the Washington Post today:

"Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) boasts of a favorable rating from the National Rifle Association, which lobbies against gun control, and House Democratic leaders are in no rush to jeopardize conservative freshmen elected from Republican-leaning districts in Indiana, North Carolina and Kansas."

God, we live in a sick country.  I remember when President Kennedy was shot, remember all the talk of gun control that came to nothing, then Martin Luther King, then Bobby Kennedy -- all the talk of gun control that came to nothing.  Then Reagan was shot and Brady and all the talk that came to nothing.  Then on Feb. 2, 1996, the school kids started killing one another with guns.  The list of incidents: Moses Lake, WA;  Bethel, AK; Pearl, MS; Paducah, KY; Stamps, AR; Jonesboro, AR; Edinboro, PA; Fayetteville, TN; Springfield, OR;  Richmond, VA; Littleton, CO; Conyers, GA; Deming, NM; Fort Gibson, OK; Mount Morris Township, MI; Savannah, GA; Lake Worth, FL; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Santee, CA; Williamsport, PA; Granite Hills, CA;  Gary, IN; Caro, MI; New York, NY; New Orleans, LA (2nd time); Red Lion, PA; Cold Spring, MN; Red Lake, MN; Jacksboro, TN; Essex, VT; Bailey, CO; Cazenovia, WI; Nickel Mines, PA; Tacoma, WA; and now, Blackburgs, VA.  More details at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

Dead kids, that's regrettable, but at least there's no more talk of gun control.  And that's a good thing.  There are too many sick fucks out there getting their jollies from touching their guns to ever get guns outlawed.  Guns don't kill people, bullets do.  Ammo control -- that's the way to end this shit.  As Chris Rock advocates, tax the ammunition so that every single bullet costs $5000.  There won't be any innocent bystanders shot then, he avows and I agree.  Let the phallic-challenged have their foolers, but keep all ammo out of everyone's hands, even the police -- especially the police.

Mike Geary

 

 

 

 

 

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