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| 1 | As I looked at the question again I realized that I neglected to reference the commentary on the question. It is actually a verbatim quote from the column "In The Loop" by Al Kamen from The Washington Post dated May, 17 1999. When I read the column it suggested the question to me, I thought it would be equally thought provoking if I were to include it with the question. I did not intend to steer responses with the quote, I merely thought that it would be impossible to give an informed answer to the question if that particular nugget of information was unknown to the survey answerer. Mea culpa. | Do you think the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia on purpose? |
| 2 | If the kid does harm to anyone with his fathers' guns then the father should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. However, the father should be trusted to keep the guns away from the kid. | Should a child's threat allow authorities to take away his parents' firearms? |
| 3 | What a clever way to get The Chicago Sun Times mentioned...their publicity department must be pleased. | The Chicago Sun-Times has refused to put coverage of the Littleton shootings on the front page of their paper. How do you feel about this? |
| 4 | This survey is biased. In my opinion, at least. | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 5 | You know, if you really want to get gun control legislation enacted then you should start shooting politicians. Jim Brady has been more instrumental in the institution of firearm control than all of the thousands of people who die from firearms every year. All he did was get shot...oh, to be a Washington Insider... One statistic that anti-gun-control advocates cannot refute is that there are no shootings that are performed by people without guns in their possession. None. Second, sociological statistics are difficult to interpret because real events in complex systems do not follow smooth linear trends. The nature of chaos theory dictates isolated mass murders in countries with strict gun laws. This does not mean that gun control does not reduce gun crime any more than the existence of one bad ball bearing means there is rotten quality control at the ball-bearing factory... | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 6 | Twister---He was a friend of President Reagan...I think that would be a pretty fair indication. Hunter--I didn't intend to belittle the suffering of Jim Brady. I feel generally sorry for him and only wish that somehow Hinckley found it difficult to get his hands on a gun. Bill--Most (nearly all) policemen are decent people who have respect for the law and a desire to serve society...why else would they take such a crappy job. Despite all of their training and expertise they manage to shoot and kill some innocent people every year. Such accidents are inevitible just as car accidents are inevitable. (I am not referring to the NYPD doing a Sam Peckinpah on an innocent immigrant, I am talking about sincere mistakes, stray rounds, and honest lapses of judgement.) Do you honestly think that things would be made SAFER by the presence of 200 million armed, untrained and unregulated self-appointed peace officers. I personally have fired 9mm pistol rounds through car doors, aluminum engine blocks, cinder blocks, two by fours and numerous other junk on my friends' grandfathers' farm, the bullets keep going on the other side of the target. (Or worse they ricochet...) The collateral damage from all those gun-toting maniacs in your alternate Littleton would result in a worse blood-bath than occurred. One of the first things police are taught, and IMO the most important, is when NOT to shoot. Romkey--The ownership of personal weapons is not any assurance against the government. I would think that Waco and Ruby Ridge would illustrate that. The only real protection that we have from the state is the assurance that it will follow the law of the land. The only assurance that we have of that is to actually elect people we can trust to keep their eye on it. Having guns doesn't make us any safer from oppression. It is only the social contract that protects us. | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 7 | romkey---Granted. EB---Have you ever been on a police ride-along? I would recommend that anyone who wants to dog about law-enforcement officers should make the effort to walk a mile in their shoes. Furthermore, I would hope that police officers were paid well; they do a critical, stressful job under less than ideal conditions. Police officers may be shot or assaulted any day they go into work, can you say the same? | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 8 | EB--Furthermore I don't see how your comment invalidates my point. Which is that having 200 million untrained, unregulated, self-appointed peace officers would make things less safe and not more safe. People who are on here would presumably all be armed under Bill's proposal. I freely acknowledge that police officers sometimes make poor decisions. However, I think that police officers generally make better decisions under the same circumstances than most people would simply because they have experience and training. | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 9 | EB--- I don't know where you work or what you do so I won't attempt to compare the relative hazards of your job with the hazards of a police officers job. I would hope, however, that if your job is as hazardous as a police officers' that your compensation would reflect that level of risk. I think it is unlikely, however, that your job requires you to confront, arrest or apprehend armed criminals. You are entitled to your opinion of police officers. That they are dull conventional people whom you neither like nor trust. You are also entitled to say that they are not decent people, they lack a respect for the law and to say that they are self-important and abuse their power. I would not dream of curtailing your right of free-expression and I am glad we live in a society where you can say such things and not fear for your freedom, safety or life. I wonder, however, whether this opinion is based on fact or is merely the result of your own prejudices. Considering your antipathy for the police I wonder, also, if you could suggest some alternatives. Would the police, for example, do a better job if we were to replace all of the current officers with different people? Presumably you think that there is some pool of people who are not dull and conventional. Some pool of people who you like and trust and who are decent and respect the law. Presumably these people could serve as law officers. What, then, is preventing these people from doing this important job? Presumably, also, you would include yourself in this pool of qualified people. What prevents you from doing the job and thus making a change in what you consider to be a deplorable system? Could it be that law-enforcement is, in fact a hard, crappy job that most people don't want to do? Your hostility towards constructive means of participating in community policing such as ride-alongs, and presumably also community advisory panels and citizen review boards, causes me to wonder how deeply you disapprove of the current system if you are unwilling to act to change it. Admittedly I am presuming a lot over what may be simple hostility directed towards me, but what I have written is at least plausible based on the virulence of your post. | The recent school shootings in CANADA has taught us that . . . |
| 10 | I quote things from Shakespeare all the time. I recently re-read MacBeth and I was reall really amazed at how many lines from that play are sayings that I use regularly and without thinking. | Has any particular line or phrase from any entertainment source become part of your vocabulary? |
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