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A Test of Sincerity
From: AJMD <mailto:jstones@scican.net>
To: letters@sltrib.com
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: A Test of Sincerity
Letter for submission to The Salt
Late Tribune - permission given to print
Regarding Machen's refusal to allow concealed carry - http://www.sltrib.com/01132002/utah/167061.htm
A Test of Sincerity
Interesting that an alleged role-model like Bernie Machen feels it is OK to
violate the law simply because he has an irrational fear of firearms. Worrisome
to think that a person can attain a position of such power and influence and
yet be willing to make knee-jerk decisions which could get people killed, without
bothering to become informed as to the facts. Offensive to see him sweep aside
the thoroughly-documented research by criminologists like Kates, Lott, Kopel,
Wright, Rossi, and Kleck - many of them political liberals who admit a dislike
for guns - as merely the opinion of "the gun lobby." Disgusting to
think that someone who has the means to drive a good car, have a cell-phone,
and live in a patrolled subdivision feels no remorse mandating that young women
walking or taking a bus home from late-night classes simply blow a whistle if
they are assaulted.
If you want to explore the pros and cons of issues like "concealed carry"
beyond the usual sound-byte polemics of "NRA-vs.Soccer-Mom" visit
Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws - www.dsgl.org,
and check out Kopel's St. Louis Law Review article <http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/63perilo.htm>
on handguns, or Kates' Tennessee Law Review article <http://web.archive.org/web/20010602091706/www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/tennmed.html>
documenting the distortion and outright fabrication of "data" on the
part of gun control advocates; perhaps the latter explains why presumably sincere
and intelligent people like Bernie Machen support such dangerous and counterproductive
concepts as the victim disarmament known as "gun control."
If Bernie Machen is really a sincere advocate for student safety, he will have
the integrity to learn the facts, admit he was wrong, and change his position;
otherwise, he's just another hoplophobe willing to risk the lives of others
merely so he can get warm fuzzies knowing he out-machoed the "gun lobby."
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