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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#9D454F" vlink="#814E95"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I saw a NRA book title “More Guns, Less Violence” and immediately thought about a book title<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“No Guns, No Gun Violence”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jack Gilles<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] Fwd: more Moore!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I found this essay by Michael Moore on guns and violence.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jack<br><br>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> "M. Theophil" <<a href="mailto:weave.marga@gmail.com">weave.marga@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> December 27, 2012, 10:47:59 PM CST<br><b>To:</b> "M. Theophil" <<a href="mailto:Weave.Marga@gmail.com">Weave.Marga@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>more Moore!</b><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext'><image001.gif> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>December 24th, 2012</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'> </span></span><span class=date><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white'>5:13 AM</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style='margin-top:0in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:red'><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/celebrating-prince-peace-land-guns"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:red;letter-spacing:-.6pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=byline style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>By<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/blogger/mmflint"><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Michael Moore</span></a></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>After watching the deranged, delusional National Rifle Association press conference on Friday, it was clear that the Mayan prophecy had come true. Except the only world that was ending was the NRA's. Their bullying power to set gun policy in this country is over. The nation is repulsed by the massacre in Connecticut, and the signs are everywhere:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/jim-boeheim-gun-control-9000-wins_n_2321304.html" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>a basketball coach at a post-game press conference</span></b></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/joe-scarborough-newtown-shooting_n_2315100.html" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>the Republican Joe Scarborough</span></b></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/gun-seller-i-cant-do-it-anymore" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>a pawn shop owner in Florida</span></b></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-19/news/35914645_1_gun-owners-higher-ground-temple-church-camden-county-residents" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>a gun buy-back program in New Jersey</span></b></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/watch-tribute-newtown-voice-article-1.1222795" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>a singing contest show on TV</span></b></a>, and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/loughner_judge_conservative_gun_control.php" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>the conservative gun-owning judge who sentenced Jared Loughner</span></b></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>So here's my little bit of holiday cheer for you:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>These gun massacres aren't going to end any time soon.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I'm sorry to say this. But deep down we both know it's true. That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing forward – after all, the momentum is on our side. I know all of us – including me – would love to see the president and Congress enact stronger gun laws. We need a ban on automatic AND semiautomatic weapons and magazine clips that hold more than 7 bullets. We need better background checks and more mental health services. We need to regulate the ammo, too.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>But, friends, I would like to propose that while all of the above will certainly reduce gun deaths (ask Mayor Bloomberg – it is virtually impossible to buy a handgun in New York City and the result is the number of murders per year has gone<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/reported-shot-stabbed-slashed-nyc-monday-article-1.1209204" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>from 2,200 to under 400</span></b></a>), it won't really bring about an end to these mass slayings and it will not address the core problem we have. Connecticut had one of the strongest gun laws in the country. That did nothing to prevent the murders of 20 small children on December 14th.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>In fact, let's be clear about Newtown: the killer had no criminal record so he would never have shown up on a background check. All of the guns he used were legally purchased. None fit the legal description of an "assault" weapon. The killer seemed to have mental problems and his mother had him seek help, but that was worthless. As for security measures, the Sandy Hook school was locked down and buttoned up BEFORE the killer showed up that morning. Drills had been held for just such an incident. A lot of good that did.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>And here's the dirty little fact none of us liberals want to discuss: The killer only ceased his slaughter when he saw that cops were swarming onto the school grounds – i.e, the men with the guns. When he saw the guns a-coming, he stopped the bloodshed and killed himself. Guns on police officers prevented another 20 or 40 or 100 deaths from happening. Guns sometimes work. (Then again, there was an armed deputy sheriff at Columbine High School the day of that massacre and he couldn't/didn't stop it.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I am sorry to offer this reality check on our much-needed march toward a bunch of well-intended, necessary – but ultimately, mostly cosmetic – changes to our gun laws. The sad facts are these: Other countries that have guns (like Canada, which has<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/canada" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>7 million guns</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>– mostly hunting guns – in their 12 million households) have a low murder rate. Kids in Japan watch the same violent movies and kids in Australia play the same violent video games (Grand Theft Auto was created by a British company; the UK had<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb0212/" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>58 gun murders</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>last year in a nation of 63 million people). </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>They simply don't kill each other at the rate that we do. Why is that? THAT is the question we should be exploring while we are banning and restricting guns: Who<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>are</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>we?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I'd like to try to answer that question.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>We are a country whose leaders officially sanction and carry out acts of violence as a means to often an immoral end. We invade countries who didn't attack us. We're currently using drones in a half-dozen countries, often killing civilians.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>This probably shouldn't come as a surprise to us as we are a nation founded on genocide and built on the backs of slaves. We slaughtered 600,000 of each other in a civil war. We "tamed the Wild West with a six-shooter," and we rape and beat and kill our women without mercy and at a staggering rate:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/tables/vsextab.cfm" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>every three hours</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>a women is murdered in the USA (<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,164707,00.html" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>half the time</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>by an ex or a current);<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/09/cbsnews_investigates/main5590118.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>every three minutes</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>a woman is raped in the USA; and<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/factsheets/dv.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>every 15 seconds</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>a woman is beaten in the USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>We belong to an<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/abolitionist-and-retentionist-countries" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>illustrious group of nations</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>that still have the death penalty (North Korea, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran). We think nothing of letting tens of thousands of our own citizens die each year because they are uninsured and thus don't see a doctor until it's too late.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Why do we do this? One theory is simply "because we can." There is a level of arrogance in the otherwise friendly American spirit, conning ourselves into believing there's something exceptional about us that separates us from all those "other" countries (there are indeed many good things about us; the same could also be said of Belgium, New Zealand, France, Germany, etc.). We think we're #1 in everything when the truth is our students are<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-12-07-us-students-international-ranking_N.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>17th in science and 25th in math</span></b></a>, and we're<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/15/nation/la-na-womens-health-20110615" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>35th in life expectancy</span></b></a>. We believe we have the greatest democracy but we have the lowest voting turnout of any western democracy. We're biggest and the bestest at everything and we demand and take what we want.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>And sometimes we have to be violent m*****f*****s to get it. But if one of us goes off-message and shows the utterly psychotic nature and brutal results of violence in a Newtown or an Aurora or a Virginia Tech, then we get all "sad" and "our hearts go out to the families" and presidents promise to take "meaningful action." Well, maybe this president means it this time. He'd better. An angry mob of millions is not going to let this drop.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>While we are discussing and demanding what to do, may I respectfully ask that we stop and take a look at what I believe are the three extenuating factors that may answer the question of why we Americans have more violence than most anyone else:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>1. POVERTY. If there's one thing that separates us from the rest of the developed world, it's this.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/49-7-million-americans-poverty-census-bureau-says-1C7073315" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>50 million</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>of our people live in poverty.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/156806/one-four-mississippi-residents-struggle-afford-food.aspx#2" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>One in five Americans</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>goes hungry at some point during the year.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-usa-survey-paycheck-idUSBRE88I1BE20120919" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>The majority</span></b></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>of those who aren't poor are living from paycheck to paycheck. There's no doubt this creates more crime. Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. (If you don't believe that, ask yourself this: If your neighbor has a job and is making $50,000/year, what are the chances he's going to break into your home, shoot you and take your TV? Nil.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>2. FEAR/RACISM. We're an awfully fearful country considering that, unlike most nations, we've never been invaded. (No, 1812 wasn't an invasion.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Declaration_of_war" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:inherit;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>We started it.</span></b></a>) Why on earth would we need 300 million guns in our homes? I get why the Russians might be a little spooked (over 20 million of them died in World War II). But what's our excuse? Worried that the Indians from the casino may go on the warpath? Concerned that the Canadians seem to be amassing too many Tim Horton's donut shops on both sides of the border?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>No. It's because too many white people are afraid of black people. Period. The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street – or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I think it would be worth it to a) do our best to eradicate poverty and re-create the middle class we used to have, and b) stop promoting the image of the black man as the boogeyman out to hurt you. Calm down, white people, and put away your guns.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>3. THE "ME" SOCIETY. I think it's the every-man-for-himself ethos of this country that has put us in this mess and I believe it's been our undoing. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! You're not my problem! This is mine!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Clearly, we are no longer our brother's and sister's keeper. You get sick and can't afford the operation? Not my problem. The bank has foreclosed on your home? Not my problem. Can't afford to go to college? Not my problem.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>And yet, it all sooner or later becomes our problem, doesn't it? Take away too many safety nets and everyone starts to feel the impact. Do you want to live in that kind of society, one where you will then have a legitimate reason to be in fear? I don't.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I'm not saying it's perfect anywhere else, but I have noticed, in my travels, that other civilized countries see a national benefit to taking care of each other. Free medical care, free or low-cost college, mental health help. And I wonder – why can't<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>we</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>do that? I think it's because in many other countries people see each other not as separate and alone but rather together, on the path of life, with each person existing as an integral part of the whole. And you help them when they're in need, not punish them because they've had some misfortune or bad break. I have to believe one of the reasons gun murders in other countries are so rare is because there's less of the lone wolf mentality amongst their citizens. Most are raised with a sense of connection, if not outright solidarity. And that makes it harder to kill one another.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Well, there's some food for thought as we head home for the holidays. Don't forget to say hi to your conservative brother-in-law for me. Even he will tell you that, if you can't nail a deer in three shots – and claim you need a clip of 30 rounds – you're not a hunter my friend, and you have no business owning a gun.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:8.65pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Have a wonderful Christmas or a beautiful December 25th!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>