(Fwd) Re:Juvenile Crime legislation

["Mike Curley" <curley@CYPHER.TURBONET.COM>]

Erik

Why would you need to post NRA materials?  You do a better job of representing 
it than the organization's releases would.

In answer to your question, yes, I think that occasional posting of information 
from organizations to which a V2020 member belongs is appropriate.  I guess 
we have to judge for ourselves individually the propriety of a specific 
posting and its relevance to our community.  I suspect that most folks, as you 
did, can figure out that if one "visionary" suggests that others write to 
support a proposition and provides addresses, that they can also write to the 
same addresses to oppose the proposittion.  And, yes, i would think that one 
consideration of propriety would be the "agenda" of the group.  I would be 
more circumstpect about posting notices from groups that are organized for 
the purpose of promoting a specific group or position (Republicans, Democrates, 
Teamsters, NRA).  But, if one of those groups sent a notice of a public debate 
(say Charlton Heston v. the President of the CDF), I think it would be 
appropriate to notify the list if the topic was significant to some list 
members.

Since I'm not sure that our gun debate (yours and mine) is significant to any 
other list members, so I will address you individually about your specific 
reply to the previous posting.

Mike Curley


> From:          Erikus4@aol.com
> Date:          Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:32:01 EDT
> Subject:       Re:Juvenile Crime legislation 
> To:            vision2020@moscow.com

> >Pls contact your Congressional representative re. S. 254 Juvenile 
> >Crime Bill if you support it or have questions and concerns
> 
> And please contact your Reps if you oppose the bill.
> 
> >Raise the age for legally buying from any source or
> >possessing a handgun from 18 to 21;
> 
> I agree here.  Let's also raise the voting age to 21.  Not responsible enough 
> for firearms - certainly not responsible enough to vote.  What happens after 
> the increase to 21 proves to be worthless as far as preventing juvenile 
> crime?  25?  30?  Just make up a new arbitrary line?
> 
> >Impose a one-gun a month purchase restriction so that
> >individuals can't intentionally purchase dozens of guns for
> >the purpose of reselling them to teenagers or convicted
> >felons.
> 
> Wow!  No ridiculous language in that statement . . .  
> 
> As long as we're using Vision2020 for the public posting of "Action Needed" 
> notices from Children's Defense Fund can I forward all my NRA alerts to 
> Vision2020?
> 
> Is that what we want Vision2020 to be used for?  I can understand, and 
> support, a simple reminder to contact your Reps, but including the notice 
> from CDF is rather too much, in my opinion.
> 
> E. O'Daniel
> 
>