"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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I've heard quite a bit of gun control rhetoric on TV over
the past 18 hours,
and most of it centers around handguns, ostensibly due to
the concealability
of them. In light of this it's important to note that the
second worst
shooting of this nature occurred in the 60s with a wacko
picking 23 people
off from a clock tower on a Texas college campus using a
high-powered rifle
with a scope. Hardly a concealment issue.


Didn't the Amish Schoolhouse shooter use a 12 ga. shotgun?

I don't recall. Living here in Amish country and knowing them so
well--their absolute belief in non-violence and the sanctity of life--that
episode was especially painful. Amish are terribly vulnerable to such
threats. The ******* could have done the same thing with a machete or a
baseball bat. Every time I learn of such things, my first response is:
where in hell was the armed citizen who could have stopped the killer before
he wreaked havoc on an innocent population. Of course in Amish country,
that "armed citizen" doesn't exist.

Isn't ozzy an idiot?

Oz is actually a very intelligent guy. He's just typically liberal on the
gun control issue, though. Liberals get all warm and fuzzy from passing
meaningless, ineffective laws. Hell, they don't really care if anyone
enforces them--their work is done when the bill is signed into law. They
can sleep well at night with the deluded belief that they did something
"good."

Max