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Monday, October 30, 2006

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

From the New York Times


I think that we are quite familiar with this kind of picture.
( if possible, I sould have put the melody as well.)
actually I got it from a cowboy flim named "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral".
the article that I attached below also decribes the same accident.
frankly it was a little difficult for me to get the gist of the article,
however, it seems to provide a cutural background about gun control.

NY
Times article


1st Opinion of Gun Control

Today, the issue about Gun Control becomes a hot potato. It is heard from the various media, and especially seems to be an election matters because the election day is comming.(Nov. 7)
I'm against gun control. Basically the U.S.A was established as based on liberty and consists of immigrants from many other countries. They have enriched by democracy as opposed to monarchy that considered as common goverance through European history. American showed possibilities that democrary provides freedom and oppotunities for every citizen.
In the U.S.A having a gun is one of the fundamental human rights to protect themselves. They don't think that it is always safe enough to count on the government at all the time; it is still possible to encounter such a terrible incident in their daily life. In this point of view gun control seems to make people feel more nervous and insecure. Morever it could be an invasion of privacy.