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• Monday, April 16, 2007 03:50 PM

  "I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?"

  An earlier Salon post: "I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?"

  Was this earlier Salon story a 'little' peek behind the curtain??? In it, you have the 'musings' of an obviously disturbed adolescent -- or was this like the old Penthouse Forum kind of deal -- a contrived letter by someone with some real problems?

  "With at least 33 dead and 29 wounded, some ask why the campus wasn't shut down after an early-morning killing."

  Jaysus, in an ordinary country, the city would have been shut down. Not that America is an ordinary place.

  Guns, idiots, a domestic situation that went out of control -- and the same-old all-American solution -- you have a problem, take it out. Waste it. I dunno, "Guns Don't Kill People -- Gun Freaks Do." Question Number One. Why do people want guns? Or rather, what kind of a person believes they need a gun. The same old cliched answers -- from the wingnut's "it's my constitutional right". The coward's "to defend myself". To the Elmer Fuddish "I'm a sportsman -- I need a semi-automatic weapon to prove I can outsmart a duck". Whatever. The result is always the same. A disturbed individual. Access to not just a firearm, but to a highly powered, high tech killing machine.

  Sorry, but I really do believe that 'when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns'. Let's make it so. You wanna keep your gun? Then let's consider you not only a freak with some adequacy issues, but also an outlaw. I hope it doesn't come down to having to pry your shoootin' iron from your cold, dead hand . . .

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