From: bing@jazz.concert.net (Carter E. Bing)
Subject: Re: Eva Clayton bio
Organization: Center for Communications, MCNC; RTP, NC
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:58:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.190026.16431@dg-rtp.dg.com> meyers@leonardo.rtp.dg.com (Bill Meyers) writes:
>I've set "Followup-To: talk.politics.guns" above,
>and cross posted this reply to that group as well.

>(Note that Carter did -> NOT <- say:)
>  "Racism isn't that big of a deal to me for various reasons."
>  "Sexism isn't that big of a deal to me for various reasons."
>  "Free Speech isn't that big of a deal to me for various reasons."
>  "Violence isn't that big of a deal to me for various reasons."
>
>(But:)
>  "Firearms Rights aren't that big of a deal to me for various reasons."
>
>Yeah, Carter, we get it.
>
>
	Young Bill,

	It shows how little you know about me to make such
foolish generalizations. Gun Control isn`t on the top of my
"concerns list".  Your living in Cary shows just how concerned
you are about those issues. :)

>Carter's been reading this thread for the last week or so,
>and says "guns should be regulated" ...
>
	To be honest with you I haven`t been reading this
"thread" for weeks. I posted the original story because of
it`s importantance to the AA and political community in North
Carolina. That accomplishment was brushed aside because of her
stand on gun control.  

>I'm speechless.  (To everyone's relief, no doubt.  :-)
>Done.
>
>
>>ps. working in cary i can understand why you hold such
>>right-winged ideas. :) (that is a triangle joke)  a durham
>>native...........
>
>As a Durham native, Carter is from the only place in North Carolina
>where already-owned handguns must be registered -- in this case, with
>the County Clerk's office.  That system has been in place since 1935,
>well before electronic computers were invented.  Guess which North
>Carolina city criminologists are now describing as "out of control"?  
>
	Out of control because of gun control or out of
control because of the flow of drugs into this area. As you
know the majority of crimes in this area have been the result
of drug wars between rival dope dealers. They have been using
a variety of automatic weapons that should be outlawed making
it possible for the imposition of larger prison terms for
them.


>I live close enough to Durham that this is a personal concern for me,
>and I'd _love_ to see something done -- or to help do it -- so that
>Durhamites no longer rob each other at record rates, and shoot each
>other for $1.00 (The Durham Sun, Saturday, October 6, 1990, p. 1-A).
>I simply believe that it won't do any good, in fact it will do harm,
>to (further) limit firearms ownership by honest people.
>
	There are racist implications in that paragraph which is
common for residents living in the triangle area. The common
myth is that because Durham is has a larger AA population it
is "out of control". Raleigh has had bank hold-ups this year
than a majority of cities in the area. In any city you can
find people holding each other up for a number of foolish
reasons. This has nothing to do with gun control but more to
do with the socio-economics factors.  Things are being done in
this city as well with the other cities in North Carolina. 


				Carter


--
"Why, have you never noticed that opinion without knowledge is
always a shabby sort of thing? At the best is blind. One who
holds true a belief without intelligence is just like a blind
man who happens to take the right road, isn`t he?"  Socrates
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