LK>  This "editorial" appeared Friday, May 17, 1996 in the Trenton Times. 
LK> It's 
LK> author is Arnold C. Ropeik, senior editor.
LK>  One of the most dangerous, deadly and dispicable policies ever 
LK> perpetrated
LK> in the name of the government of the United States will begin this 
LK> October 
LK> unless a whole lot of people start screaming their heads off.
LK>  Despite a scattering of stories in the press and probably futile 
LK> protests 
LK> from decent legislators in Washington, very few people realize what a 
LK> catastrophe will happen in less than five months.
LK>  Under the dark umbrella of a virtually invisible provision slipped 
LK> into 
LK> the Defense Department budget for 1996, the pentagon will legally 
LK> authorize
LK> the giveaway of over 176,000 never issued World War II and Korea 
LK> carbines, 
    What a "catastrophe"?
    DCM has done this for decades, and very few homicides are done with 
rifles of _any_ kind.  (Maybe the editor could look up the FBI Uniform Crime 
Report stats on what percentage of homicides involve rifles.)
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