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Hello, Rob.
<P>You wrote: <<I don't approve of guns (partly because I found them
strangely seductive as a cadet), but there are circumstances conceivable
in which I would feel moved, even obliged, to
<BR>pack a shooter. In that instance, I would bitch and moan about
guns whilst carrying one.>>
<P>Isn't that precisely the point that Jordan was making about double standards?
<P>You might be able to rationalize that (in the US, at least) because
of guns' pervasiveness and the possibility that the next person who wanted
to take a poke at you and yours might just have picked up a spiffy little
9mm--at a gun show, from WalMart, or from the law-enforcement agency that
employs them.
<P>How many people actually have carry permits in Oz?
<P>About Feinstein & O'Donnell and their respective hypocrisies . .
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<P>What does Dianne Feinstein think she will accomplish by carrying a gun?
(I didn't know she did until Jordan Hayes mentioned it.) High Noon
in the Rayburn Building? Gunfight at the Georgetown Corral?
Does she really believe that criminal circumstance will facilitate a neat
little confrontation in which her antagonist will either run away, surrender,
or fall down in terror?
<P>Rosie O'Donnell's recent pillow fight with Tom Selleck about his cold-dead-fingers
affiliation with the National Rifle Association doesn't exactly gain credibility
in the context of her cuddly endorsement contract with K-Mart which cheerfully
and (I assume) profitably peddles firearms in its Sporting Goods department.
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