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From: "Constance Tate" <[log in to unmask]>
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Cc: "Parkinson's Information Exchange Network"
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Non PD- Gun control/broken heart


> dear michel
>      thank you for correctly reading the constitution. i have been saying
> this for years. if a
>  person feels the necessity to own a gun then let them join the state
> militia or national guard
>      i would never allow any fire arm in my house.you can't have an
accident
> with a gun if there
> is not a gun in the house.
>
>    my personal knowledge of guns is
>              1 -  one of my moms brother-in-law after a party decided to
> scare  hisbrother-in-law Tiny.
> outcome    Sammy went by Tiny and wife's bedroom and rattled the window..
> Tiny half asleep
>  heard the noise -thought it was a burgler and aimed his gun and fired.
> thankfully bullet hit
> Sammy in the arm and didn't kill him. Tiny got rid of his gun .
>           2 -  one of our boys at age7 was visiting his aunt in las vegas.
> he played with a boy
>  next door  and suddenly came running to his aunt and said that the boy
> invited our kenny into
> his house to show our boy something. he took kenny into a closet and
climbed
> up on some boxes
> and showed our boy his daddy's gun bragging that daddy was a guard. kenny
> knew we told
> them never to touch any gun. thank fully he told auntie who then went to
> speak to neighbors who
> were in the house and didn't even hear the kids. the father said he didn't
> realise his boy knew
> where re kept the gun on a top shelf.
>      3 -  a neighbor of ours that thought he was quite a hunter and
laughed
> at jack cause jack
> wouldn't go hunting.  after a successful hunt when friend walked into his
> yard the gate bumped
> his rifle which he must have been pulling it along the barrell because he
> shot himself in his butt.
> of course i told him he got what he deserved for being so stupid.
>     4 -  a 20 year old son of my cousin killed himself. his father
actually
> bought him the gun and
> never told the boys mother that he had given the boy a few lessons. the
> young man had been
>  upset when he spoke to his mother so she told him she would drive over to
> see him.she had
> car trouble and got there about an hour late to find her boy dead. she
> called the police thinking
> a burglar had done it.  the police said it looked like suicide but his
> mother insisted he didn't
> have a gun.  his father came from out of town and accused the police of
not
> investigating a
> crime.  took a year before the parents to accept that it was suicide. very
> sad case.
>      to this day i still feel the same. i don't say  guns should be
totally
> outlawed. if you need a gun
> so be it but stay out of my house with it.  we have lost too many young
> people from guns something
> must be done. parents must be held responsible for the crimes of their
> children and also be
>  punished  with them when their kids cause harm or loss of life.
>       okay thats my soap box speech
>                      why isn't is easier to spread love instead of hate is
> beyond me.
>       love
>        connie
>
>
>
>
> > The Constitution, according to my reading, clearly stipulates that the
> > MILITIA may bear arms, not individuals....not even if you have PD.
> > Love
> > Michel
> >
>