Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 18:12:16 -0500 From: Four Weis <mweinopsamcom> Subject: Re: Saab is Anti-Hunting and Anti-Gun
--------------2F605C9B68B893E022C1C3BB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For what it's worth, I live in the US, and I still can't figure out the gun thing. To explain the "gun thing" in a nutshell (I have read too many O'Reilly books) is that it is a hot political issue, just like abortion. It is an issue that is used to polarize voters. If you asked most people, they probably would not have an opinion either way. You would also probably find that most of the people who say that the public should not have guns, have guns themselves. Carl Rowen was a vocal anti-gun TV personality in DC, where handguns are illegal, until he shot a tresspasser with an illegal handgun. Sharon Stone made a news event out of having the police come out to her house to pickup some guns she wanted to turn in. She did not turn in all of her guns, she used it as a publicity stunt. So the "gun thing" in the US is only what the politicians and news media use to get votes and boost ratings. Remember when it was "politically correct" to bash foreign cars, like Saabs and Toyotas, because it was un-American? You should have heard what some GM worker said about my Volvo. Winston Legthigh wrote: > As the comedy group The Kids in the Hall once put it in one show in which > they were trying to explain the difference between Canadians and > Americans, "We're like Americans, but we don't carry guns." > > For what it's worth, I live in the US, and I still can't figure out the > gun thing. > > In article <3873543f_2nopsam.pi.se>, rvnopsamtail.com (Robert Virding) wrote: > > > I must admit that sometimes I have a little trouble understanding US > > rights and freedoms. :-) --------------2F605C9B68B893E022C1C3BB Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <font color="#000099">For what it's worth, I live in the US, and I still can't figure out the</font> <br><font color="#000099">gun thing.</font> <p>To explain the "gun thing" in a nutshell (I have read too many O'Reilly books) is that it is a hot political issue, just like abortion. It is an issue that is used to polarize voters. If you asked most people, they probably would not have an opinion either way. You would also probably find that most of the people who say that the public should not have guns, have guns themselves. Carl Rowen was a vocal anti-gun TV personality in DC, where handguns are illegal, until he shot a tresspasser with an illegal handgun. Sharon Stone made a news event out of having the police come out to her house to pickup some guns she wanted to turn in. She did not turn in all of her guns, she used it as a publicity stunt. So the "gun thing" in the US is only what the politicians and news media use to get votes and boost ratings. <p>Remember when it was "politically correct" to bash foreign cars, like Saabs and Toyotas, because it was un-American? You should have heard what some GM worker said about my Volvo. <br> <p>Winston Legthigh wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>As the comedy group The Kids in the Hall once put it in one show in which <br>they were trying to explain the difference between Canadians and <br>Americans, "We're like Americans, but we don't carry guns." <p>For what it's worth, I live in the US, and I still can't figure out the <br>gun thing. <p>In article <3873543f_2nopsam.pi.se>, rvnopsamtail.com (Robert Virding) wrote: <p>> I must admit that sometimes I have a little trouble understanding US <br>> rights and freedoms. :-)</blockquote> </html> --------------2F605C9B68B893E022C1C3BB--
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