Ted Ashton wrote:
>
> John,
>   While you're considering Wirt's bridge offer, let me comment a moment on the
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> To that, I'd like to reply with a quote (or as close to it as I can get :-)
> from the season-opener of West Wing.  The President is undergoing surgery
> following what appears to have been an assassination attempt and the Press
> Secretary is briefing the Press on the situation.  She says, "The President was
> not the only one shot tonight" and then proceeds to list of a number of murders
> which occurred elsewhere.  And then she says, "to those who say that those
> murders would not have happened if everyone owned handguns, let me say this:
> The President was shot tonight while surrounded by the best gunman with the
> best weapons the country has."

Obviously, they were the 2nd best gunmen in the country. Having a gun
doesn't make you more powerful than the lawless, it makes you equally
powerful instead of an unarmed victim with no means of defense. Shall we
disband our military since having one doesn't stop wars?