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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 1, 1993                   TAG: 9303010208
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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NO SMALL PRINT TO LIMIT GUNS

OUR FOUNDING fathers took up arms and fought their own government. After they won, they wanted to make sure that their children and grandchildren always had the right to own guns in case the government they were forming ever became so vile they could no longer live under it.

Our founding fathers had state-of-the-art weaponry of their day. They did not use slingshots. If they had, there would be no United States of America.

The Second Amendment states that we have the right to bear arms. There is no small print that says "only two rifles and one pistol" so that the people won't have too much fire power. We have the right to own any gun we want whether it is a shotgun, AK-47 or a full-automatic machine gun. TIMOTHY VEST CHECK

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