Evaluation on "Why handguns must be outlawed" by Nan Desuka.It is a piece of old writing in 1985 though...
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Desuka's basic premise is flawed.  The argument is that outlawing handguns will remove them from both the criminal and the non-criminal, thereby eliminating handguns as a cause of death, either intentional or accidental.\n\nThe fatal flaw here is that ablsolute enforcement of such a law is impossible (note the total lack of cocain on the streets?).  In which case the BEST possible result would be the elimination of most accidental deaths (even some criminals probably shoot themselves accidentally), and a few intentional deaths.  However, even this does not consider the increased use of "illegal" handguns for "illegal" purposes that would result if the criminal knew for certain that no one would have the abilty to defend themselves adequately.\n\nBased on the statistical evidence seen in violent crime rates of states who have adopted "right to carry" legislation, one could well assume the opposite of the intended outcome; the total number of deaths caused by handguns would increase as a result of outlawing them.
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I don't know if this fits the bill, but it makes for interesting reading.  \n\nPhrack magazine issue 60 (2002-12-28)\nArticle 14: Traffic Lights \nhttp://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=60&a=14\n\nHell, the entire Phrack magazine catalogue is worth reading.
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tee hee...I have heard it before.  Fist time to read it though.  Have a good day hippy girl.
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Fever 1793 is a great book! It is about this girl who lives through her mother's death (she died from yellow fever). she is sent away to [a place that I don't quite remember] with her grandpa so that she will not get sick. She came very close to becoming ill. I'm sorry that I cannot help you anymore, because I read it three years ago, and my memory is very poor! :~}
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Wow...that is incredibly dated, since Powell resigned. \n\nBut it's soooooooooo original...never heard that one before *yawn*\n\nOn to the next idiot.
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This is a tough one!  It looks as if this volume wasn't widely reviewed.  I search and searched using the ABELL (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and couldn't even find one of the review that I knew existed.  This is probably because the citation below includes the Rock book in a comparative review with several other books.  You have probably already come across The New York Review of Books review by Gordon Craig "Making way for Hitler" in Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989.\n\nYou probably also found the review by Alex Danchev in Reviews in American History © 1990 The Johns Hopkins University Press titled "Tiger Shooting Together: The Grand Alliance in Embryo." It can be found online at http://www.jstor.org/view/00487511/dm980069/98p0096z/0.\n\nThe Rock volume was written in the waining years of the cold war and there is no doubt that the author will show influence and bias based on this context.  This is true for all historical periods and the impact that current thinking has on historical analysis.  Go with you gut and call the author on the bias just be sure to put his thoughts in the appropriate historical context.  We have the benefit of 20 years of hindsight since the writing of this volume.  Not to mention that Rock appears to have been at his prime 20 or 30 years before this book.\n\nGood luck!
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You're cool. Just cite City of Chicago stature #389483 that states "in order for laws to be enforced they actually have to be laws, they can't just be shite that your crazy hoe neighbor makes up". If that doesn't work, stature #89683385 states that it is not a crime to "kill old women, as long as 51% of those living within a 5 mile radius find her to be annoying" Another useful stature is #95607973. This states that "16 year old girls can not get pregnant". Happy Drinking.
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I think its been long forgotten....I have read it as well, and know about the violations.....Perhaps that is why there is some hidden animosity from the Mexican govt. towards the US govt....They don't want to drudge up the past, because the last thing they want is a war with US....We are neighbors....
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No, I actually liked it, too. The lottery at that time had an absolutely different meaning from today, and it was kind of misleading, consequently giving more impact for present readers. I like her style. If I was one of the villagers, I'd get out of there immediately. Stoning someone to death as a means of sacrifice for the community is just brutal and violent. Arrgh, it gave me the creeps when I read it.
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Ridiculous.  Is the law requiring cars to stop at a stop sign based on a Nazi law?  Because the laws are remarkably similar to laws in Nazi Germany requiring cars to stop at stop signs.\n\n(One group has claimed that the origin of the distinction between guns suitable for sporting use and other guns comes from Nazi Germany.  And the group further claims that when the Brady Bill attempts to outlaw private ownership of semi-automatic weapons (which are only good for killing large numbers of people quickly, in war or otherwise, or practising to do so) it is applying this distinction first developed in Nazi law.  But 1) that is a far cry from the Brady Bill being a "translation" of Nazi legislation, 2) the Brady Bill ban on selected semi-automatic weapons is not the same as a ban on private ownership of any weapon not suitable for sporting use, and 3) the concept of a ban on such weapons in private hands goes back way before the Nazis, and existed throughout Europe, back into the days of Kings and nobility.  It was not invented by the Nazis.\n\nOppose gun control if you like.  But this is not a reason to do so.
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i know this one. got the same assignment when i was in high school. hmmm... oh yeah! never read it! and i needed it in college. damn should have read it! damn
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I have lived in Calif. for 42 years and have never heard of this magazine. Best of luck in finding it. You may want to try your local library and see what they suggest.
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go to:\nhttp://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=1997;volume=43;issue=2;spage=50;epage=1;aulast=Deshmukh
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They won't even go to trial!  The local DA will review the case after the department or State Police conducts an investigation.  Everything I have read shows that SHE shot first.  Whether she was 92 or 18, she shot first and the police responded with the same level of force.  Justified shoot with no legal recourse.  Local DA will go with whatever decision the investigating PD recommends.  Lesson learned for Grandma.....Don't bring a rusty wheel gun to a semi-automatic weapon firefight.
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I agree that <http://www.100words.net/entry/read_member_batch.cfm?entry_member=Laura%20A%20Hill&entry_batch=November&entry_year=2003> is the only site that talks about this poem.  Don't try pinkmonkey.com and the other sites.  I couldn't find the poem comments in their results.
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Good evening Major,I'm a retired Sergeant in the U.S. Army, possibly at the same time as yourself,oh well.Man, our Country's have really put us lifers through some stuff HUH? Late December 1966,Kontoum Provence,Search & Destroy,monsoon, my Stevens & Savage 12 Ga. Pump shotgun lost a spring,an important spring,Ord. had to have the weapon to fix it. The only replacement weapon was a captured Kalishnikaugh,Model 47.I had that weapon five(5) days,it saw action twice,two good fire......the 47 was flawless,I didn't want to give it up when that hillbilly shotgun came back,it was and is the World's finest Gererilla warfare weapon......Sir.It's almost mid-night here, whatever time it is there Sir,I hope you're good!
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Someone in a forum wrote that it first came about in the US in a novel in 1921, and was also related to fighter jets in WWI. I don't know how valid this is, but feel free to check it out at the link below.