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"Our View"
From: "Ross, Ken" <KPRoss@newsamerica.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:49:59 -0500
To: letters@oakridger.com
Cc: letters@keepandbeararms.com
Subject: Our View
Hello,
Pardon me for asking, but who's view is it?
In the opinion article: In Search of Sensibility on Gun Laws - http://www.oakridger.com/stories/010302/opE_0103020033.html
Whomever makes this opinion, should post their name. If it's the Oak Ridger's
opinion, that's even worse.
Let's see. "Or separating your basic law-abiding gun owner from those who
believe they hold an unfettered right to brandish about any kind of weapon anywhere
they might please." Hard to believe, but most law abiding gun owners believe
they have the right to self defense and to carry whatever means they deem necessary
to protect themselves. The word "brandish" doesn't come into the picture.
You're painting a bad picture of gun owners on purpose.
Second, "Alcohol and carrying concealed weapons into establishments where
alcohol is served is another." This would assume that someone carrying
a weapon and walking into a restaurant that serves alcohol is going to drink
and they are therefore a risk. That's targeting gun owners again. The same statement
can be made for drivers walking into the same establishment. It's a matter of
choice. A simple common sense choice which you have assumed the poorer choice
will be made.
Third. "How soon do some forget the senseless carnage on school grounds
across the country?" The school shootings you mention, I assume you mean
Columbine and Wakefield, there were numerous laws that were broken when those
tragedies happened. How is a gun free school going to stop someone from coming
in with the intent to commit murder? Murder is illegal last time I checked.
So if someone wants to commit murder, are they going to say, "Oh, well
I shouldn't take this gun there because it's a gun free zone?" All gun
free schools or gun free zones accomplish is victim disarmament or in other
words a free lunch for a criminal since there is no way for anyone to defend
themselves.
A favorite line of mine, "Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth."
Obviously nobody knows that one as shown by this "opinion" you posted.
Ken Ross
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