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Sorry for the delay. There were 37 people in the room. I sat in the back.Ralph Vashatelli started out talking about 30000 people killed last year and half were suicide, and this is a big PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM. GUNS ARE A BIG, HUGE, GIANT, PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM. This is there main line of attack. He talked about having a gun in the house makes you five times more likely to commit suicide and 22 times more likely to injure or kill a family member. He talked about all the things Mr Henigan and he had done today, going to Starbucks head quarters, and having their annual Cease Fire anti gun luncheon. He introduced Mr. Henigan as graduating from Duke and being a lawyer, and being with the Brady Campaign for 10 years.
Mr. Henigan started with some joke I can't remeber, talking about book stores and coffee. Then went into talking about the cops killed around here and the 270 people shot each day and the 85 killed each day, young people and gunshot wounds. He then started on the gun show loophole, and then started patting his group on the back for the Brady bill and how it had lowered crime from 1994, not mentioning anything about the growth of conceal carry during that time. Then he talked about private sellers and all the loopholes with that.
Then he started in on his main topic, bumper sticker logic, guns don't kill people, people kill people. This lead to reliving Columbine and the 13 killed and 21 wounded, and the cause was poor parenting , video games, no school prayer, bullying, were all deflections from the real cause, the killers got the guns from the gunshow that a prom date had bought them.
Then he got back to defeating the bumpersticker thinking, guns are tools, good gun users vs evil gun users, punish the criminals are what these pro gun people say. Then he pointed out about licensing gun owners and registration like we do with cars. I did laugh at one thing he said about if there were no guns then we would be left with drive by knifings, kind of funny if you imagine it. Little gang members hoping out of a car stabbing rival gang members and then hopping back in their car.
He talked about how two of the Beattles got assualted, one by a knife and lived, and one shot and died. I've got to stop for now, got to get to bed, more tomarrow. Sorry for the delay, busy at work. JS.
