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As Public Enemy once said "911 is a joke"

However, the problem with guns is, and has been since the advent of the pistol, that it gives power to morons to do great harm. Guns, whether legally or illegally owned, are only as safe or unsafe as the person who has them.

Can a gun save you, yes. Can a gun take another life (yours or someone else's), again yes. So do a self-analysis and ask yourself if you are really secure enough in your own temperament to handle having the ability to take another life. Personally, I don't feel that secure and wouldn't want most people to have them.

Remember, the shooters at Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech had legally purchased guns.

Amen to the article, but the reply left me puzzled. That the victims at Virginia Tech et al had 'legally purchased guns.' So what? The University officially and publicly announced that there 'were no guns on campus,' and the students obeyed - like sheep to the slaughter. They followed the rules -- and were murdered by someone who didn't care about university regulations. MSD

Ditto to second reply above. CNN (yes, CNN) actually did an article a short while back about how Utah (of course, Utah) universities and colleges permit their students to carry weapons and it may be the reason why their campuses are safer.

Second comment: C'mon Shira. I know you're hiding that girl somewhere.

#3: SOOOOO many of those home security system employees are actually felons. It's scary.

#4: I actually do think the noisy alarm will scare off SOME of the robbers, though. Think of it, these people are targeting homes under the cover of darkness for a reason. But I don't dispute your support of a gun. Home invasions are on the rise and those intruders, by far, fear nothing, have nothing to lose, and will do anything.

How annoying is the following blog entry on CNN?

GUN INCIDENT NEAR PRESIDENT BUSH'S RANCH
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot Saturday by an elderly woman packing a pistol near President Bush's ranch here in what was easily the strangest incident I've ever witnessed covering the White House.

It all started so innocently as I sat with a group of Danish journalists just down the street from Bush's ranch during a visit by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The two leaders were having lunch on the ranch, so I was waiting at a nearby historic one-room schoolhouse with White House staff to interview Rasmussen after the meal. Then the prime minister was going to do a brief press conference with the Danish press corps.

Terkel Svensson, a writer for the Danish News Agency, could not get wireless Internet access at the schoolhouse to file a story. But Svensson could get his cell phone working so he called his editor in
Copenhagen and started wandering across a quiet country road as he chatted away.

"I was just so occupied dictating my story that I didn't really see where I went," Svensson told me later. "I was just walking and talking."

What Svensson didn't realize was that he had stopped walking a couple hundred feet away, on the front lawn of an elderly woman. An elderly woman who looked through her window and didn't like that a strange man was standing outside her house. An elderly woman who had, um, a gun.

Next thing you know the woman is outside, no more than a few dozen feet from the journalist, demanding that he leave. "Suddenly she comes out and she says, 'Get off my property. You're trespassing,'" recalled Svensson.

Svensson was too preoccupied to notice the pistol, and was not aware that Texas law gives homeowners leeway on using a weapon when someone is trespassing on your property. All of us journalists across the street were too far away to see the pistol at first, until a Danish photographer with a telephoto lens announced to a bunch of us that there was indeed a weapon in the elderly woman's right hand.

As word spread that the lady had a gun - which she did not use - I can tell you it's a severe understatement to say White House and Secret Service officials were a bit concerned about the fact that they had just dodged an international incident. Ditto for Svensson, who was alarmed when he safely crossed the street and was shown dramatic still photos of the lady holding the gun.

"I will show the photos to my wife and children," Svensson told me. "They thought I was on a safe trip."

CNN was not able to reach the woman for comment.

–CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry

If large numbers of gun owners made people safe, then, by that logic, Detroit should be safer than the the suburbs, and Texas should have a murder rate far below Massachussets, and Europe would have a far higher murder rate than the US. In reality, all 3 are far from the truth. As well, the idea that having heavily armed teenagers with alcohol and guns would make their university's safer is laughable. I suspect that there has been no appreciable difference in the murder rate on Utah campuses since students were allowed to carry, though I would be interested if it has been studied.

A gun is neither good not bad, it is a tool. The problem is, that it is a tool that gives psychotics a far greater ability to cause damage. The simple fact is that the vast majority of people are far too prone to anger and violence to be entrusted with that kind of tool.

So long as the NRA controls the gun debate, we will never have a meaningful dialogue on the role of guns in America, because far too many people have nothing more than a bumper sticker mentality on this issue. While it may be true that guns don't kill people, people kill people; guns make it a heck of a lot easier to kill lots of people.

It is true that guns are a tool. And yes, it is true that it is a tool that can be found in the hands of the wrong people. However, eliminating guns or suggesting that law-abiding citizens would be better off without them is illogical and absurd.

Guns make it easier to kill people, but there is no way to take the guns away from the "bad guys." Those "bad guys" will ALWAYS have access to guns when they want them, and suggesting that the "good guys" give them up only worsens the ratio of good to bad, and takes away one of the most effective methods of protection and self-preservation.

Further, it is patently untrue that the "vast majority of people are far too prone to anger and violence to be entrusted with that kind of tool." If this were truly the case, we would have far more incidents than we do.

NRA members, 2nd Amendment supporters, hunters, and gun supporters are some of the most responsible people out there simply because they understand that the gun is a dangerous weapon, and that it must be handled, and used, wisely.

We do not have a "bumper sticker" mentality, and making such a generalized comment displays a misunderstanding of, and insult to, the important role of the 2nd Amendment's supporters. It further attacks and degrades the ideals of freedom, safety, and rights established by the Second Amendment, and one must wonder why there are groups - both conservative AND liberal - which support this Amendment.

While I'm sure I don't need to enumerate the conservative groups, here are just a few of the liberal groups and individuals that support the 2nd Amendment:

*Pink Pistols (www.pinkpistols.org)
*Governor Bill Richardson (New Mexico)
*Laurence H. Tribe, Law Professor at Harvard
*Governor Ted Strickland (Ohio)
*US Congressman Zack Space (gun owner and NRA member)
*Shooting Liberally (a liberal social club in support of gun rights in Colorado)

Lastly, some statistics:
*Over the last four decades, while the stock of civilian firearms rose 262% (largely due to population growth), fatal gun accidents dropped nearly 70%.
*More people drown in backyard swimming pools than are killed by accidental gun deaths.
*Alcohol is involved in more crimes than guns, and it kills more than 100,000 Americans a year.
*Only 2% of civilian shootings involve an innocent person mistaken for a criminal; the error rate for police is 11%.
(check it out yourself: all these statistics are from a liberal author: http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/11/liberal-case-for-gun-ownership.html)

Guns are a tool - yes. And thank goodness we have them. They are a tool that protects ourselves, our families, our freedoms, and our rights. While every tool has a downside, this one has the best upside there is - the future of our lives and liberties.

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www.localprice.com/atlanta/homesecurity.html

The only reason why Brinks are promoting in this way as they are selling their product. Probably the majority of alarm cases would turn out this way, its only the minority few that dont. Its better to be protected than not.

I was a brinks customer now broadmview security.

A thief removed the electrical can from the home. It was for sale and vacant. This house was unprotected for 33 hours before the breach was discovered. A police report was made, the electrical company put a lock over the can. I contacted Brinks and was informed they were not responsible for upkeep of the system. They just could not understand that the battery went dead because of a thief.

I canceled the service and am now using Secure Net. Very satisfied.

I contacted brinks and offered to return their equipment but they refused to pick it up.

2 years later I start receiving calls and letters from a collection agency regarding this matter.

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