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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:06 PM
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Default Anyone Here Have a Republican Congressman

In article ,
says...

angry children are often armed with automatic

weapons, .
. . maybe I'll listen to you for advise as to what is and what is not
reasonable.

Dave
Ideology fa schifo



You forgot dogs and cats living together........angry children armed
with automatic weapons???? Talk about fear-mongering.
- Ken

P.S. Before you give yourself a heart attack responding, do yourself a
favor and look up automatic weapons. Automatic weapons are practically
outlawed (there's about 200-300K mostly owned by Hollywood and
collectors) and are rarely used in crimes.


Hey, I could go for a positive note. So . . . where might you suggest I
"look up automatic weapons" to get your sublime point of view. And please
let me know what non-automatic weapons the various kid shooting up their
school mates, and doing the drive-bys etc.. favor.


Think the Department of Justice is a relatively unbiased group?

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/guic.pdf

Percent of gun tracing requests by weapon type:
Handgun: 79.1%
Pistol: 53.0%
Pistol Revolver: 24.7%
Pistol Derringer: 1.4$
Rifle: 11.1%
Shotgun: 9.7%
Other (including machineguns): 0.1% ---- This is automatic weapons.

"Automatic weapons are considered machineguns subject to the provisions
of the National Firearms Act." - Same webpage, page 2 under 'What are
the different types of firearms?'

- Ken