claimed thanh was -- tom was for every form of gun control. , agreed to appear at this forum at this local high school. newspapers, "ie was able to attract -- i think he also wrote on radio and television -- an audience of about 700 people, tom stood on the stage 45.5 hours and answered all of the allegations with the reasons i never would have thought of. there were from the triple -- bumper stickers waived about the i can remember him was not for repealing laws that limited a citizens use hecanons and rockets, that did not think you were entitled to have a missing silo right there in the backyard of your house. the audience was hostile. a fatal mistake was made. he asked everyone to stand up and then he pleaded for money to pay for the ads. [laughter] who were already standing, they just walked out. i have spent a good deal of my life overseas at this time. i was mesmerized to watch this. it was not like dealing with the pakistanis, or going to school there, were living in greece or egypt as i had done. it was something very different. years, and ir the reasons to see tom, with all