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oljames3 wrote: I have another perspective. Violence is a tool, just as a gun is a tool. Violence is not evil in and of itself just as a gun is not evil in and of itself.

George Orwell, referring to pacifism, wrote "Those who “abjure” violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." I have been one of the "uniforms that guard you while you sleep" that Rudyard Kipling describes in "Tommy." I appreciate the disciplined, controlled violence of our military and police.

Skiprr wrote:Being blunt, I view Lori Haas's situation as this:

If a drunk driver kills your daughter in an automobile wreck, you become a zealot to ban driving drunk. You join or lead MADD.

If someone shoots your daughter in a random act of violence, you become a zealot to ban guns.

In the former, no one ever speaks up to ban the tool because they all, every one, use it every day. So it can't possibly be the tool's fault. It's the drunk driver. We need to get drunk drivers off the road.

In the latter...ooh, it's a scary thing we know nothing about. The tool itself must be--is no doubt--at fault.

The average SUV weighs about 5,000 pounds, and on the Beltway in Houston is going 65 to 75 ...or with some idiots, 85.

Heck, on neighbor surface streets like 529 they typically hit 70+ in 45-mph zones.

And Liberals think guns are scary.

Since statistics were gathered in 1950, never once have firearm deaths per year even come close to deaths by automobile.

Your Second Amendment at work.

Just sayin'...

baldeagle wrote:We need people to attend these meetings and speak out, intelligently and reasonably. The first thing they need to understand is they are not going to get LTC information. That is against the law. They also need to be educated on what the laws are and what the record of LTC holders is over the past 20 years.

If they are serious about improving mental health reporting, all well and good, but people's rights must be respected as well.