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Views from QCA: Guns can kill, but so can knives, rocks...
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Whenever a terrible tragedy happens that involves the weapons we call, it gives the gun banners something to talk about. In the military if we called a rifle or a pistol a gun, we were in big trouble. When I was in the Army, I was awarded an expert medal with M-1 and carbine rifles. I don't know if I could see a two-foot bullseye at 500 yards today. All my grandparents immigrated from Belgium. My grandfather told me, "Don't ever let them take your guns away from you." He had witnessed firsthand that the first step toward a totalitarian government is to disarm the citizens. The Founding Fathers knew this too. That's why they came up with the Second Amendment that would allow citizens to protect themselves from the government they had just formed. I had a chance to visit with a girl from Red China. I asked her, "Do they have gun control in China?" Her reply, "In China the government controls everything, they even try to control your mind." I also had a chance to visit with a girl from Japan. I asked her if they had gun control. Her reply, "Nobody is allowed to own a gun in Japan." I asked her, "Do you have any murders?" She said,"Yes." I asked, "How can you murder someone if you don't have a gun?" She said, "use knives." I said, "Why don't you ban knives?" She said, "Oh, we use them in the kitchen." We are the only form of life that have weapons we weren't born with. Some of these weapons we have weren't meant to be weapons. Al Capone killed three people with a baseball bat. They never banned baseball bats. Some Middle Eastern countries stone women to death. I thought Jesus put an end to that 2,000 years ago. I guess the cavemen used stones for weapons. Even David used a sling shot and a stone to kill Goliath. In America, if you don't want to own a gun, you don't have to. Then when some worthless piece of human debris breaks down your door and you're standing there holding nothing but your nightie, you can borrow a line from Rodney King. "Can't we all just get along?" I would rather have three of us standing there. Me, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson. Then I could borrow a line from Dirty Harry: "Go ahead punk, make my day."' These terrible tragedies are beyond comprehension. Why do innocent little children and innocent adults have to sacrifice their lives? There will always be more questions than we have answers for. Tragedies are impossible to understand whether they are caused by humans or Mother Nature. I can't begin to express my feelings about this tragedy in Connecticut. I don't have the words. Jim DeCap lives in Geneseo. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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