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To: UpstateNYRouser
I am glad you are more careful than the "hunters" that are the subject of the Chicago Tribune article. And you are right that this country is full of double standards, including one standard for automobile safety and another for gun safety. But I think accidents involving gun accidents are newsworthy, even though they provide ammunition (no pun intended) for those who wish to subvert liberty by banning or restricting gun ownership, an express Constitutional right.
35 posted on 12/18/2001 11:11:36 AM PST by Atticus
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To: Atticus
Think that you and I agree more than we disagree.

My blood kind of boils when seeing threads like this from do good reporters and reporterettes who have no other agenda than to ban guns, hunting and take away our second amendment rights.

I totally agree that media articles which report on gun related issues are geared toward one thing. I hate the circumstances which give these radicals their "justification" in proposing that we limit legal gun ownership and all the rights associated with that right.

I will always rail against their hypocrisy in "caring" for human life and try to expose them for what they really are.

They generally have the comeback that someone has to care. How hypocritic is it to care only one a year? I'd wonder if that reporterette writes daily about the people who die of other causes. Maybe I'm being too hard on her, huh?

And I'd wonder if the people who are so righteous about gun hunting have always been "accident" free in their pursuits of life.

In all of life we have gotten to the point where we think the word "accident" means unpreventable. "Accidents" are, in the vast majority of instances, preventable acts which are caused by negligences, ignorance, stupidity - whatever. But I will also maintain that as a human, I am going to do stupid things and should expect the same from others. I try to confine my "stupid" acts to things which will not harm others. I only wish it were possible to expect the same from others. But, alas.....

40 posted on 12/18/2001 11:37:39 AM PST by UpstateNYRouser
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