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Additional Text for the 10/31/04 Alumni Sandstorm 
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>>From: Terry Ganz ('68WB)

Re: Gun Control Discussion
    Ok, I want my say on this gun control discussion.
    Nowhere in the constitution does it talk about hunting 
and sports in relationship to guns. Guns are a necessity 
to a well regulated militia (that is every male able-
bodied citizen between the ages of 16 and 45). The reason 
for a militia is to either help protect this country from
outside attack or more importantly to protect the citizen
from the government that has gone out of control. That is
the reason that it says in the second article of the Bill
of Rights in the Constitution that "The right of the
people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
    I feel sorry that a few criminals have caused so much
damage with so called "assualt" weapons that I no longer
have the right to keep and bear the same type of arms that
the military could use against me. I don't think Uncle
Buck's double barrel shotgun or bolt action rifle is going
to be much use if the government decides to use the army
or other government agency against you or me. But with the
way gun control is going I may not even have one of those
to protect us if I want to remain a law-abiding citizen.
    It is a shameful that we have become so used to being
regulated for "our own good" that we blindly allow more
and more personal freedoms to be taken away every day by
the government because of the actions of a few criminals
and terrorists. Do people really think that the terrorists
who hijacked those aiplanes on 9/11 could have gotten 
away with flying those airliners into the towers and the
pentagon if some of the other passengers had been armed?
Would the terrorists even had tried knowing that there 
may have been many armed militia members (see the first
paragraph) on that flight if our right to bear arms had
not been so trampled on?
    I could go on but I will stop here and thank God that 
we still have a few rights left here in the United States.

-Terry Ganz ('68WB)
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