PN>                               WHY  GUNS?
PN>                         -- by L. Neil Smith --
PN>      People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single-issue
PN> thinker, and a single-issue voter, but it isn't true.  What I've
PN> chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to
PN> focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably
PN> demonstrates what any politician -- or political philosophy -- is
PN> made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.
PN>      If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his
PN> average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking
PN> into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun,
PN> handgun, machinegun, _anything_ -- without producing ID or signing 
PN> one
PN> scrap of paper, he isn't your _friend_ no matter what he tells you.
PN>      He may lecture you about the dangerous weirdos out there who
PN> shouldn't have a gun -- but what does that have to do with you? Why
PN> in the name of John Moses Browning should you be made to suffer for
PN> the misdeeds of others?  
    Liberals hate gun rights because they have intentionally and openly 
created a system in the past 30 years in which individual criminals are not 
to be held responsible for anything.  A criminal is excused because he's 
poor, because he's a minority, because his mother beat him, etc.  And having 
seen crime rates skyrocket at the same time liberals took control of the 
parole and criminal courts systems, they need a scapegoat to get the public 
to blame crime on.
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