To: Truth Telling Guy
Please help me understand this, the only homicides anyone in the article seems concerned with are the ones committed with guns, why are the others irrelevant, are the those victims less dead?
If they have a murder problem wouldn't it make sense to get murderers off the street, I didn't see that mentioned anywhere.
Maybe I do understand, these people are descendants of Druids, who believe "Evil Spirits," reside in guns.
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11/06/2002 10:47:18 PM PST by
c-b 1
To: c-b 1
If they(the crooked politicians and gungrabbers) take the murderers off the streets then they can't commit the murders that can be used as an excuse to take more of your rights away---especially your gun rights.
To: c-b 1; demosthenes the elder
Check out this stupid article and asks yourself what one of these punk kids will do if he comes home and a couple guys are raping his mom?
He's just gonna' peacefully talk it out with them?
Gun violence spurs students to act
By JILL PALERMO
DAILY NEWS STAFF
They say they dont worry about guns at school or anywhere else.
But in a town where plenty of people hunt and even more wear military uniforms, they know some kids have access to guns.
And thats why the Jacksonville High School Student Council got involved in a nationwide pledge against gun violence.
We all know theres a possibility someone could have a gun, said Jessica Bucklew, a 17-year-old senior.
But its remote, added William Gerichten, also a senior.
I think its not even a threat, said Ben McGlaughon, 17.
But if you know theres something being done about it, it makes you feel better.
JHS is one of several Onslow County middle and high schools collecting signatures for The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
By signing the one-page pledge, students make this promise: I will never bring a gun to school. I will never use a gun to settle a dispute. I will use my influence with my friends to keep them from using guns to settle disputes.
Nearly 3,000 Onslow students have signed the pledge, and the number is rising, said Anna Morgan, a Navy mom spearheading the local effort. She hopes to collect at least 5,000 signatures to contribute to the nationwide goal of 6 million.
Mary Lewis Grow, a Minnesota mother and anti-violence activist, developed the pledge five years ago. Morgan said she became interested when she read an article about Grow and the pledge in a national magazine.
Morgan says shes not the typical anti-gun type. She and her husband, a Navy corpsman, own guns but keep them locked up and away from their two small children.
The pledge, Morgan said, is not against guns. Its about empowering kids to take control of a problem affecting their generation.
I just like the idea of somebody having enough faith in the kids of today to let them have the power to control something in their own lives, she said.
Are guns a problem in Onslow County Schools?
Assistant Principal Darin Cloninger said JHS has had no gun-related incidents this year.
But having a gun turn up at a local school is not unheard of. According to the 2000-01 Annual Report on School Violence, the most recent available, Onslow County Schools reported two incidents involving possession of a firearm on campus.
After Morgan contacted JHS about the pledge, Cloninger offered the idea to the student council, who ran with it.
In high schools, you hear all the horror stories, he said. But we really have a lot of concerned and conscientious students Â
who want to do the right thing.
According to statistics compiled by Grows organization, 30,000 people die nationwide as a result of gun violence a year, and about 4,000 of them are under the age of 19.
Since 1998, organizers have declared a Day of National Concern about Young People and Violence to draw attention to the pledge.
This year, that day was Oct. 24 the same day Maryland police arrested the D.C. snipers.
The fact that one of the snipers ended up being a 17-year-old should make kids think about it a little more, McGlaughon said. Its not older white men who are doing this kind of serial killing. Its kids, too.
Contact Jill Palermo at jpalermo @jdnews.com or at 353-1171,ext. 228.
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