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PUBLIC VIEWPOINT Ducks, Geese Not Shooting Back, Unlike Armed Attackers

Posted: March 10, 2013 at 12:55 a.m.

On Feb. 24, there was a letter written by someone from Fayetteville stating if three rounds in a shotgun are good enough for duck and geese hunting, there should be a law limiting everyone to the same three rounds in a shotgun anyone could use to defend themselves.

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Opinion, Pages 14 on 03/10/2013

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>> I was tired of my tax dollars going to fund abortions in Arkansas and keep up the fight to protect and give a fi ghting chance to those who are helpless to defend themselves. <
--Marvin Bair

Well your desire was granted. It was in the 1980s that a law was passed which provided for NO taxpayer money to be used for abortions in Arkansas which makes your entire statement false.

From that law I got to see a pregnant 12 yr old girl carry her pregnancy to term. Her mother was mentally disabled and living in government subsidized housing and the entire family covered by Medicaid which at that time could not pay for any abortions, not even for rape.

Posted by: cdawg

March 10, 2013 at 4:04 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

>>Why aren’t we using these same facts to advocate pregnacy prevention? What if the 40 million women who have abortions became advocates for pregnacy prevention?<

I cannot say about the other 49 states but Ark legislators don't want sex education taught in public schools.
They only want abstinence taught. You will be shocked to learn of the gross ignorance about becoming pregnant that pervades the teen women of this state.

We also had eight years of the "worst president ever" mandating that abstinence only be taught with any school receiving federal funds. Federal funding of any public education could not teach realistic sex education.

There are several other very backward states like this one.

Posted by: cdawg

March 10, 2013 at 4:12 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Most common forms of contraception are very effective, but not 100% effective.

Abstinence, when practiced, is 100% effective.

Those needing to practice abstinence are much less effective at practicing it than common forms of contraception.

Posted by: ecsmith2

March 10, 2013 at 5:14 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Countries such as the Netherlands have a fraction of the abortion rate that we do in the United States, and one reason is that they have real sex education in the schools.

Posted by: Coralie

March 11, 2013 at 1:53 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

New article in ADG yesterday said that there had been a steady decline in household gun ownership from the 1970s (about 50%) to the current decade (about 1/3).
Also, while the rateof household gun ownership had hardly changed with elderly households, rates among households of young people had plummeted.

Posted by: Coralie

March 11, 2013 at 1:56 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

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