Million Mom thing

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Not to do with knives but it might in the future. CNN wants to know what we think about the gun hype. Log on into headlinenews.com and tell it like it is.


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There was an excellent article in the NYT's yesterday about this. It seems many Democrats in the key midwestern states are getting unhappy with Gore over gun control. It gives me some hope. It is one more issue that is going to make a difference this fall.

NYT's is a site that you have to register but there is no charge. They also move stories around but this link was working five minutes ago!
http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/051300wh-gore-guns.html

Gregg
 
I went to the one in Phoenix.

The cops wouldn't let us into the park where the "march" was held so we circled around them on the sidewalks.

Maybe 300 of them and 150 of us. They seemed to be mostly well-off white baby boomer types with a few hard-core anti-gunner types of varying age and social status. The hard-core antis seemed pretty fervent about their cause but were entirely unwilling to talk to us. The rest of them struck me as mostly just a bunch of Democratic Party True Believers; rather bored with their little rally but still coming out because the Clintons wanted them to do it and it was (therefore) the Right Thing To Do. Sheep being herded into a pen for a little while, IMHO.

Fearing possible police exuberance, I opted to ditch the fixed blades I usually carry along with most of the money I had in my wallet and anything else of value that a cop might like to keep.

Turned out better than I thought it would, though.
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Lots of folks were carrying openly, and I even saw an SOG fixed blade on one guy's belt.

Next year I will put a khukuri on my belt!

-Dave
 
145AM PDT - Vote com. running:

Pro MMM/Gun control - Nationwide 10%


Anti MMM/Gun control Nationwide 90%
Statewide 93%
District 94%
 
Uhh, not to wander off topic but...anyone can check this and I may be wrong. But, the figure "12 kids a day killed by guns" (qouted like a mantra) includes "kids" age 18 to 21. This is also of course the age group prone to violent crime; i.e. murder, not accidental gun discharges.

Further, the local paper include stories of kids around the Tulsa area who died in accidental gun deaths. What *is* the fascination with Russian Roulette among teens?
 
Kevinb17,

Hello, fellow NE Oklahoman. We have quite a few of us on here. re: russian roulette. I think two different impulses strongly intersect in this activity. One is teenagers inability to _really_ believe that they can die. Anything that let's them play around with danger is fun therefore. Especially since, point two, teenagers seemingly have to go through a period of rebellion. That makes dangerous activities that they have been strongly warned against by their parents almost irresistible.

re: 12 children a day who die from guns. Yes, you are right of course and I've been dismayed that despite the incredible amount of coverage this event got I've never even heard the news media question it. Hey, they don't even question how something can be a "Million" march when there aren't a Million. Why didn't they just go ahead and call it the Billion Mom March? The media would have gone along with big smiles. I saw a breakdown of gun deaths recently and the number of kids killed drops off rapidly with age. Once you get to age 15 or less the number becomes very small. That's the age I would call a child. I liked one of the signs I saw at the Tulsa "counter-demonstration." It read something like "17-21 year olds criminals who kill each other over drugs are not children." At least our Tulsa Pro-gun control march organizers came out before and during the march as being in disagreement with the national march. They favored trigger locks being sold with guns but they did NOT favor registration or other gun control. They said they just wanted to promote safety. I never did hear the national media say that there were local marches which disagreed with the national agenda.
 
tulsamal,

Believe or not, the NPR coverage this morning gave a fair amount of coverage to the "Second Amendment Sisters" in Washington, D.C. They let have Susan Sarandon have the final rebuttal, however. Ah well.

You are correct about teenagers, I'm sure. I wouldn't want anyone to lose a child, but if they play russian roulette...I mean, geez...how will more laws prevent stupidity?

Make it foolproof and they will build a better fool.
 
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