Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:54:04 -0400
From: Chris Ferris <ferriscc@Mainstream.com>
Subject: The UN-Gunning of San Francisco


In case you missed the broadcast, National Public Radio was 
interviewing sculptor Bruce Hassan (sp?) this past weekend. Hassan had 
forged a bell from 500 lbs of confiscated guns to commemorate the 50th 
anniversary of the United Nations. The bell is on display at a Veterans'
War Memorial Building in S.F. through the end of this month.

The interviewer and the sculptor engaged in a duel to see which one of 
them could moan the most about the fact that "guns" were a "problem" ... 
typical NPR propaganda.

Why didn't the  S.F.P.D., thru local FFL dealers, offer some of 
functioning guns and *free* safety training to elderly, impoverished 
residents of S.F. who have been terrified of home invaders but who, due to 
fixed incomes, can't spring for a 20 gauge or a .22 rifle without 
sacrificing many meals in the process? 

(Fat chance, but I felt like asking!)