A Columbine letter to the editor

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Monkeyleg

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Just wrote this. Feel free to use it if you like (just not in Wisconsin):

As we observe the anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School,
and listen to the predictable politically-inspired calls for more gun
control laws, it is important to look at what has transpired judicially
since that terrible event.

Mark Manes, the 22-year old who sold a handgun to the two killers, has
not been charged under federal gun laws, even though the sentences for
that crime can be measured in decades. Robyn Anderson, who bought the
rifle and two shotguns for the underage murderers, also has not been
charged under federal laws that could put her away for decades.*
Incredibly, she is instead being paraded about by gun control advocates
as a spokesperson for further gun laws.

Where is the outrage that the only living persons who bear direct
criminal responsibility for the Columbine tragedy, which the Clinton
Administration has used as a rallying cry for more gun control, have not
been charged under existing federal laws?

The Administration's position on gun control seems to be thus: we aren't
going to enforce existing gun laws, the gun laws we propose won't stop
anything like this from happening, if we get the laws we want we
probably won't enforce them either, but we want more laws.

Can you say "charade?"

Richard *****

*Source: United States Attorneys Office, Denver, Colorado.
 
Manes is in jail. Robyn, as I recall, got a walk for being up front about her role in the gun show purchase deal, from all appearances she really didn't have a clue.
 
The problem with putting Robyn Anderson in jail was that she didn't violate any Colorado State laws. At the time she bought the guns used in Columbine, it was legal for her under state law to give them to someone under 18 because they were long guns. The one "pistol" used was the one Manes sold them. It was illegal to sell it to them and he got 6 years in jail. Federal law, which made it illegal to buy a firearm of any kind from a federally licensed dealer and give it to someone under the age of 18 didn't apply to Anderson because she bought the guns through a private purchase.

Believe me, if there was any way Anderson could have been legally put away, the CO governor, Bill Owens, would have personally seen to it, not to mention a whole lot of grieving parents. The woman is almost universally despised for her performance before the CO legislature where she claimed she would have never bought the weapons if a background check would have been required. It was so transparently an attempt to blame someone else for her screwup.
 
I know. I talked to the US attorney in Denver about this. They could have charged Manes under federal law, but chose to let Colorado take it.

Just fighting fire with fire. If Clinton and the anti's can claim that a gun show bill would have stopped "Robyn" (what a cutesy name), then I can point out the hypocrisy of
her calling for more gun control.

I'll take my shots at Clinton any time I can, and I wanted to get this in before Thursday.
We're going to see an avalanche of anti stories on that day.

Dick
 
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