of a young 22 year old man, Garry Lee, gunned down in a karate studio by a racist mentally ill spree killer who should've never had a gun. I at the time was an instructor/student in one of our other schools. I had attended the wedding of the instructor of that school who saw his student shot down that day just because he was African-American.
So while I'm a gun owner I know a balance has to somehow be found that denies those who shouldn't possess guns from having them. A balance between privacy rights and the rights of the rest of us for police to be notified and confiscate the guns of those who may prove to be a danger to the public.
That awful day in Pittsburgh 5 good people lost their lives, 1 would die years later after being paralyzed. They were shot down simply because they were minorities and some nutty white man of privilege, son of immigrants himself, who believed some nutty RW non-white anti-immigrant crap decided to take his .357 magnum and go on a 2 hour 20+ mile killing spree.
Details of that awful April, 2000 day in Pittsburgh area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_BaumhammersAlso from ADL: Before his shooting spree, Baumhammers visited Tom Metzger’s WAR Web site. (Metzger later characterized him as "a white man" who "decided to deliver Aryan justice in a down home way.") Baumhammers also joined the E-mail mailing list of the hate rock band Aggressive Force, repeatedly visited the popular white supremacist site Stormfront, and downloaded material from hate sites created by members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance.
On the Web site for his fledgling Free Market Party, Baumhammers called for an end to non-white immigration. He stated that "almost all" present day immigration "is non-European," and "the effect of such massive waves of immigration has been disastrous for Americans of European ancestry." Commenting on the 2000 presidential candidacy of former Senator Bill Bradley, Baumhammers wrote, "because of his 'pet theme' of racial harmony and civil rights, European-Americans of all backgrounds should be leery of a Bradley presidency." Baumhammers asked the Council of Conservative Citizens, a prominent racist group, to provide a link from its site to his, and the Council complied.
http://www.adl.org/internet/extremism_rw/inspiring.asp