<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4807.2300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Yahoo...the wild, wild west...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Say, Kevin, if someone disagrees with you do you beat them up or shoot them or both?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David I.  (who doesn't carry a gun)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 9/30/01 at 6:52 PM Kevin E. Ramsey wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Dianne Hofstetter wrote;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    "<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>To many, if not most of us living in the US, it _IS_ new.  It has not been <BR>in our consciousness as a nation to live in fear that our flight is likely <BR>to be hijacked, or that we could be killed in our offices on Tuesday <BR>morning.  We have felt relatively safe, as long as we have avoided going <BR>down dark, unlit streets at night in bad areas of big cities.  It may not <BR>have been realistic, as you point out, but that is they way it has been in <BR>our country--until last week."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I kinda, somehow know what you mean, Dianne. But I'm sorry, I don't really feel that way at all. I refuse to live in fear; I go about my daily life the same way that I have for the past ten years, not looking for trouble, and not finding any either. I don't go into places like dark alleys, or bad parts of the city either, but if I had to, I wouldn't worry too much. You see, I live in a State were the Government has allowed me to carry a gun in my vehicle, and on my person. In the ten years that I've had that right, I've never allowed anyone ( other than a law enforcement officer who pulled me over for a minor infraction, and then only out of courtesy) to know that. That means that I've never abused the right, or the responsibility that goes with it. The most realistic scenario for me today, is that I may have to stop a "hate-crime" from being committed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Gee, I guess we're not all a bunch of Neanderthals after all....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry Gang, but that's just the way it is in the real world.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Flame suit isn't needed in this case; I'm right. Period.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2 Arial></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>