From: ljb@parkcity.dr.att.com (BLO54620-BonhamLJ(DR2194)240)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:32:55 GMT

In article <105088@bu.edu>, merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) writes:
|>
Folks can read the carefully selected news items below at their liesure.

The point I wish to make is that what one will not find when perusing the news
papers are any stories about crimes being foiled by gun owning victims, despite
the fact that the NIJ (Nat'l Institute of Justice) estimates that between
600,000-900,000 crimes are prevented or stopped each year in the U.S. by
lawfully armed citizens.  This out numbers by more than 3 to 1 the number
of crimes committed anually, with or with out firearms.  In other words, don't
believe everything in the papers.

One thing I do not ever hear from the "nasty black nylon gun"-phobes is any
curriosity or concern about what posesses a person to WANT to randomly kill
people.  If the "liberals" really wnat to do some good, why don't they take all
the energy they currently expend trying to control the lives of the common people
and direct it toward finding the real cause for people not giving a damn about
the lives of fellow humans!  I suspect that they don't want to look to closely
at that issue because it means questioning the situational morality drivel that
they tried so hard to push into the schools, the media, the universities,
politics, and business.  Just a thought here, but what if we started teaching our
children that there are certain things which are right and ones which are wrong?

Bear with me, as I have another politically challenged, self-esteme threatening
thought.  Maybe we should start holding individuals accountable for their actions
and fate from childhood to old age again?  Maybe we should re-learn that minors
are not fully functional either emotionally or rationally and control their
behavior closely to ensure that it conforms to what is truly right.  

But we can't have any of that , now can we?  No.  It looks bad in the papers and
upsets people at their breakfasts.
 





 
|> It's Christmas time and you've been thinking about getting that
|> semi-automatic rifle and going down to the local mall and
|> spreading some Christmas Cheer. 
|> 
|> Wayne Lo, an 18 year old American of chinese decent did almost
|> that on Monday night. Mr. Lo who was arrained yesterday, killed
|> two people and injured four others on the campus of Simon's 
|> Rock College in western Massachusetts. At his arraignment Wayne
|> showed a little emotion as he stood sullenly with his shaved head
|> and T-shirt that had the words "Sick of it all." printed
|> on it. Wayne was an `A' student and a basketball standout. He
|> hails from Montana where his parents operate a restaraunt. 
|> Mr. Lo a talented violinist is a bigot by his own admission
|> and advocated the killing of Jews and gays. He had argued in the
|> school newspaper that the United States should annex Canada and
|> send AIDS victims there to be quarantined. Last Sunday alledgedly 
|> called a student couple and threatened them, the couple
|> a white woman and a black man were told to "Watch out.". 
|> The assistant principal of Central Catholic High School in
|> Billings, Montana , said of Lo "He was a good student,
|> a normal kid.". Mr Lo immigrated to America from his native
|> Taiwan six years ago. 
|> 
|> Mr Lo puchased a semi-automatic rifle Monady, he was apparently
|> able to obtain the weapon without a firearms identification
|> card. The ammunition was puchased through the mail.
|> The rifle was a Soviet made SKS type, $300.00 retail.
|> There is a an exemption for out of state residents buying 
|> firearms, under Massachusetts law Lo had only to show his
|> Montana driver's license and fill out the correct forms.
|> 
|> The murder victims where a student and a professor. The injured
|> were a security gaurd(unarmed), and three students. 
|> 
|> It's been a bad week in the Bay State, what with the holidays
|> and all:
|> 
|> In an unrelated incident a man shot a woman whom she had a restraining order
|> out against and then killed himself, in Brighton(Boston).
|> 
|> Monday afternoon a 18 hispanic year old youth was killed by a shotgun blast
|> in what is described as a "gang killing".(Jamaica Plain, Boston)
|> 
|> On Friday two 16 year olds and a 20 year old were "ambushed" on
|> on a crowed street in Dorchester(Boston). They 20 year old 
|> was DOA and the two teenagers are in critical condition.
|> 
|> A .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol was taken form a 14 year old
|> female student at a Boston High School yesterday by school
|> security guards. She said she didn't feel safe in school without
|> her "piece". 
|> 
|> --sjm
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Sean J. Merritt		         | "Every revolt is a cry of innocence    
|> Dept of Physics Boston University|  and an appeal to the essence of being."
|> merritt@macro.bu.edu             | Albert Camus, The Rebel
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