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    <author><![CDATA[Drew Beeman]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["With the corporate take over of our government, and the militarization of our police forces around the country, do you really think that making the second amendment null and void will in anyway contribute to the observance of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights is constantly under attack by our government and the second amendment is meant as a safe guard against government tyranny.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wasn't the movie theater shooting a "gun free zone"? How did taking guns away from the law abiding people make them safer?<br>
And having the police protect us worked out so well in NYC where all 9 bystanders shot were shot by police.
        
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      <![CDATA["The Second Amendment, or rather the Supreme Court's intentionally incorrect reading of it,..." Interesting and fairly outlandish and unsubstantiated allegation that the Supreme Court "incorrectly read" the Second Amendment, and even more that there was an intentional misinterpretation.
        
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      <![CDATA["The majority, surely, fall into two groups: people who believe they need guns for protection against intruders and people who want to own guns for pleasure: hunting, target shooting.<br>
But if there were no guns, intruders wouldn't have them."<br>
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That's great logic - when a 240 lb criminal breaks into my house my 115 pound wife can take solace in the fact that even though she doesn't have a way to protect herself, he won't have a gun either.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why don't we ban abortion?<br>
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After all, it would be more rational than going after guns. You're vastly more likely to be an abortion victim than a gun victim.
        
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      <![CDATA[Don Murphy -  I submit that  when you talk about gun ownership as a "Constitutional right"  and then you state that  in the Civil War, "hundreds of thousands died to secure and protect theses rights" you're inadvertently shooting yourself in the foot (you'll excuse the expression). <br>
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Prior to 1865 the ownership of human beings was also a "Constitutional right"  in the United States,.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Bryan Thompson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The statistics say there are 90 guns for every 100 people in the USA. Most of those guns are owned for the purpose of hunting or target shooting, maybe someone who likes to collect them.
        
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      <![CDATA[In response to Mr. Penner. Mark, so what you are saying is that actually having a gun puts my family in more danger?
        
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          <a href="http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/Profile?oid=2135552">Don Murphy</a>]]>
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      <![CDATA[After reading this article, it reminded me of a few things I read recently in a book called “The Hidden Brain.” One of them was-- “The issue (concerning guns) is whether people who live in homes with guns are safer as a result of owning guns, and the answer, unequivocally, is no.” The book describes how simply having a gun in your home makes you and your family members much more likely to be killed or injured by that gun than if you didn’t own it. Whereas, the positive result of gun ownership (ie.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Don Murphy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hmmm, I believe the last time I checked gun ownership was a protected Constitutional right, rather like equal rights, the right to assemble and the right to free speech. And you know, each of these rights has lead to violence and sometimes death as well.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:06:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[On Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac show this morning on WXXI-FM, he read a brief piece by writer Molly Ivins that reminded me of your column this week: "I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife.
        
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