diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index c7d148f..1832fd4 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ Thumbs.db .idea/workspace.xml .env/ .idea/ +.pythonCode/venv/ venv/ __pycache__/ diff --git a/politicalTextFiles/gfdsgdsfg.md b/politicalTextFiles/gfdsgdsfg.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e10d6d --- /dev/null +++ b/politicalTextFiles/gfdsgdsfg.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# joinforc.xml wrapping +- ```Find: .+ / Replace with: \``` +- ```Find: ^[A-Z].+Schulman$ / Replace with \0``` +- ```Find: ^[A-Z].+JNS] / Replace with \0``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/politicalTextFiles/joinforc.xml b/politicalTextFiles/joinforc.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c141376 --- /dev/null +++ b/politicalTextFiles/joinforc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ + + +The following article is reprinted by permission from the +Los Angeles Times of June 8, 1992. Reproduction on +computer bulletin boards is permitted for informational +purposes only. Copyright (c) 1992 by the Los Angeles +Times. All other rights reserved. + +[Note: the following text is drawn from the original +manuscript; there are insignificant changes in the +published version. -- JNS] + + + +JOINING FORCES AGAINST A COMMON FOE + +by J. Neil Schulman + + +There are about 200 million guns in America in the +hands of about 60 million Americans. The sale of guns +nationwide following the Los Angeles riots has reached +record levels, many of them to first-time buyers. Firearms +training classes are filled to capacity. The National +Rifle Association currently has 2.8 million members -- ten +times the membership of the American Civil Liberties Union +-- and expects to exceed 3 million by the end of 1992. + +Both advocates of gun control and advocates of gun +rights agree that there is an epidemic problem with the +criminal use of guns in America. But every time a gun- +control advocate points to the latest atrocity committed +with a firearm, the gun-rights advocate will surely ask: +why was there no armed citizen who could have tried to stop +the criminal? + +The difference between the advocate of gun control and +the advocate of gun rights lies in a perception of the +cause of the criminal use of a gun. Those who advocate gun +control think the cause is wide and easy availability of +guns. The advocates of gun rights think the cause is a +legal system which leaves criminals free to prey on a +public which is socially discouraged, and often legally +forbidden, from using guns for personal defense. + +The war over gun control is fought with news reports. +Advocates of gun control have no shortage of reports that +prove guns in the hands of criminals are a plague on our +society. Advocates of gun rights find, however, that the +use of firearms to prevent or stop a crime is often left +unreported by media which are worried that reporting gun +defenses will encourage irresponsible vigilantism. + +The war over gun control is fought with statistics. +The number of gun attacks in the United States is easy to +compile: just count up the thousands of bodies in the +morgues, and the hundreds of thousands of gunshot victims +treated in hospitals. The number of times a gun is used for +defense, however, has a built-in problem: the use of a +firearm to deter, prevent, or stop an attack is unrecorded, +overwhelmingly because the defense was accomplished without +pulling the trigger, and less often, because the person +using the gun for self-defense was legally forbidden to be +in possession of it at that time or place, and thus did not +report it. + +The war over gun control is fought with historical +debates about the intent of the Second Amendment. Those +who advocate gun control say the Second Amendment has no +Supreme Court ruling which defines the Second Amendment as +protecting an individual right of the citizenry to keep and +bear arms for personal defense. Those who advocate gun +rights say that the intent of the authors of the Second +Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment which would apply +it to the states, is indisputable, and it is a politicized +Supreme Court which does not have the courage to enforce +it. + +It's likely that the only other issue with such +polarized and deeply felt world views is abortion. Oddly, +those who advocate the right of choice on abortion are +often the same people advocating eliminating the right to +choose firearms as a defensive option. + +It's also likely that a final Supreme Court ruling on +the Second Amendment would fail to end the issue. A ruling +in favor of an individual rights interpretation of the +Second Amendment would probably coalesce gun-control +advocates into a movement to repeal the amendment. A +ruling against an individual rights interpretation of the +Second Amendment would alienate and radicalize the millions +of Americans who believe in that right as firmly as the +advocates of abortion rights believe in theirs. + +As long as the advocates of gun control write laws and +court rulings that abridge the right of private citizens to +buy, own, and carry the firearms they feel are theirs by +right to have for defensive and sporting use, gun owners +will continue to be alienated and radicalized, and become +more and more willing to engage in civil disobedience +against such abridgements. + +Advocates of gun control need to realize that passing +laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self- +defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender +their rights or their guns, and only the most foolish of +politicians would risk the stability of the government by +trying to use the force of the State to disarm the people. + +If gun-control advocates do not acknowledge the right +of the people to keep and bear arms for individual and +civic defense before they attempt to remove guns from the +hands of those who abuse them, then sensible gun laws will +be out of reach, and the criminal plague of gun victimizing +will continue. + +Can't advocates of gun control see the advantage +of recruiting gun-rights advocates to a joint cause of +eliminating gun tragedies? We can all agree that guns +need to be kept out of the hands of the violent criminal +and the lunatic. We can agree that the solution to gun +accidents is safety training. We can agree that those who +own and carry firearms for protection must take +responsibility for knowing how to use them safely and +appropriately. + +Surely, instead of fighting one another, we can join +forces to fight our common enemy: the armed criminal? + +# + +J. Neil Schulman is a writer, hosts a radio program on the +American Radio Network, and is founder and chair of the +Committee to Enforce the Second Amendment. + + diff --git a/pythonCode/test.txt b/pythonCode/test.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/regexConsp/conspiracy_project.xpr b/regexConsp/conspiracy_project.xpr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52a675f --- /dev/null +++ b/regexConsp/conspiracy_project.xpr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ + + + + + + + + + + \ No newline at end of file