This print surprised me that it was in the usually anti-gun Oregonian. It was printed yesterday(02 MAY 00).
http://www.oregonlive.com/oped/index.ssf?/oped/00/05/ed050211.frame
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Moms' push for gun control is stale 'in-the-box' thinking.
Every sensible person knows gun control is a misnomer since it's people who pull the trigger.
Tuesday, May 2, 2000
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By Douglass M. Renfrow
IN RESPONSE Douglass M. Renfrow
Heidi Yewman went to Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., when she was a teen-ager. Last April she flew back to the memorial services and now she wants gun control ("Paralyzed politicians meet marching moms," April 20).
She doesn't want to ban guns, she says she just wants gun control. We have always thought that was a peculiar term -- "gun control." It makes you think there are guns running around out of control shooting people.
Of course no sensible person could possibly think that. After all, guns are inanimate objects. But that's exactly what politicians, the news media and others would have you believe. They want people to believe guns are an evil entity that compels us to kill.
All our lives we're taught to think inside a box. Thought outside that box is discouraged, even punished. Let's, just for a moment, venture outside the box into the realm of truth and facts.
"They" want you to believe guns are responsible for the shootings at Littleton, Springfield and other schools. How can that be, since firearms are inanimate? It must be the people behind the guns.
Who are those people? In most cases it was other kids. Shall we have laws that prohibit kids from having guns then? We already do. Further we have laws that forbid children to own, buy, use, steal, even touch a gun. There are literally thousands of laws.
The same types of laws also keep felons from firearms. Violations can net a criminal 25 years to life in prison. They are, 98.47 percent of the time, ignored.
President Clinton went to Littleton this year to mourn, make a speech, plead for gun control and dance in the blood of his victims. Yes, we said his victims. He is surely as responsible for those and other deaths as the people who pulled the trigger.
Our president has the power to compel the Justice Department to prosecute felons who violate firearms laws. He has not. Why not? He has the power to compel law enforcement officials to arrest and hold for prosecution criminals who are in possession of or use firearms. He has not. Why not?
As responsible human beings, with the urging of MADD, we took the proper steps to clamp down on drunk driving. We prosecuted the driver, not the car. Should we do no less for criminals of any age who use firearms in the commission of a crime?
America does not have a blind spot on the gun issue as Yewman contends. The majority of Americans know there has been gun prohibition here before --it led to the American Revolution. Stalin believed in gun prohibition, as did Hitler and as do Iraq, Iran, China, Korea, Vietnam and so on. In these countries the only freedom is what the government says you have.
We have no doubt that our president mourns for the death of the children. We also have no doubt he needs those deaths to pursue his agenda of gun prohibition. His record proves it.
We would ask the moms going to Washington, D.C., to look outside their door. Is there a police officer there to protect you? Is there one stationed on your block, in your neighborhood? If gun prohibition is successful, who will protect you or your children when a criminal breaks in to rape and murder you and your child? Police well tell you that all they can do is try to apprehend the culprit. But you're still dead.
So the question is: Shall we keep our thinking inside a box like Yewman and Rep. Earl Blumenauer? Like Sens. Ron Wyden and Charles Schumer? Like Bill Clinton and Sarah Brady? Or should we let our thoughts outside for a good airing?
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Douglass M. Renfrow is president of American Freedom Alliance. The group can be reached at American Freedom Alliance, PMB#336, 16016 S.E. Division, Portland, OR 97236-1925, and info@afaorg.net
http://www.oregonlive.com/oped/index.ssf?/oped/00/05/ed050211.frame
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Moms' push for gun control is stale 'in-the-box' thinking.
Every sensible person knows gun control is a misnomer since it's people who pull the trigger.
Tuesday, May 2, 2000
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By Douglass M. Renfrow
IN RESPONSE Douglass M. Renfrow
Heidi Yewman went to Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., when she was a teen-ager. Last April she flew back to the memorial services and now she wants gun control ("Paralyzed politicians meet marching moms," April 20).
She doesn't want to ban guns, she says she just wants gun control. We have always thought that was a peculiar term -- "gun control." It makes you think there are guns running around out of control shooting people.
Of course no sensible person could possibly think that. After all, guns are inanimate objects. But that's exactly what politicians, the news media and others would have you believe. They want people to believe guns are an evil entity that compels us to kill.
All our lives we're taught to think inside a box. Thought outside that box is discouraged, even punished. Let's, just for a moment, venture outside the box into the realm of truth and facts.
"They" want you to believe guns are responsible for the shootings at Littleton, Springfield and other schools. How can that be, since firearms are inanimate? It must be the people behind the guns.
Who are those people? In most cases it was other kids. Shall we have laws that prohibit kids from having guns then? We already do. Further we have laws that forbid children to own, buy, use, steal, even touch a gun. There are literally thousands of laws.
The same types of laws also keep felons from firearms. Violations can net a criminal 25 years to life in prison. They are, 98.47 percent of the time, ignored.
President Clinton went to Littleton this year to mourn, make a speech, plead for gun control and dance in the blood of his victims. Yes, we said his victims. He is surely as responsible for those and other deaths as the people who pulled the trigger.
Our president has the power to compel the Justice Department to prosecute felons who violate firearms laws. He has not. Why not? He has the power to compel law enforcement officials to arrest and hold for prosecution criminals who are in possession of or use firearms. He has not. Why not?
As responsible human beings, with the urging of MADD, we took the proper steps to clamp down on drunk driving. We prosecuted the driver, not the car. Should we do no less for criminals of any age who use firearms in the commission of a crime?
America does not have a blind spot on the gun issue as Yewman contends. The majority of Americans know there has been gun prohibition here before --it led to the American Revolution. Stalin believed in gun prohibition, as did Hitler and as do Iraq, Iran, China, Korea, Vietnam and so on. In these countries the only freedom is what the government says you have.
We have no doubt that our president mourns for the death of the children. We also have no doubt he needs those deaths to pursue his agenda of gun prohibition. His record proves it.
We would ask the moms going to Washington, D.C., to look outside their door. Is there a police officer there to protect you? Is there one stationed on your block, in your neighborhood? If gun prohibition is successful, who will protect you or your children when a criminal breaks in to rape and murder you and your child? Police well tell you that all they can do is try to apprehend the culprit. But you're still dead.
So the question is: Shall we keep our thinking inside a box like Yewman and Rep. Earl Blumenauer? Like Sens. Ron Wyden and Charles Schumer? Like Bill Clinton and Sarah Brady? Or should we let our thoughts outside for a good airing?
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Douglass M. Renfrow is president of American Freedom Alliance. The group can be reached at American Freedom Alliance, PMB#336, 16016 S.E. Division, Portland, OR 97236-1925, and info@afaorg.net