<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:36 AM, <a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><br>Wolfe's readers are a diverse, and an international bunch, and I for one<br>am curious to hear the views of the various literate and intelligent<br>readers who frequent this list upon this subject, here in the early 21st<br>century, some 90 years into the international disarm-the-citizens campaign<br>that began after WWI.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I myself am pretty much a Second Amendment fundamentalist. Guns are extraordinarily useful tools for putting holes in things a long way away. Like all powerful tools, they can cause great and unintended harm if misused or used carelessly. Making the tool unavailable to responsible adults is not the solution to that problem. There's something about power and responsibility and werearachnids to be said here.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>