The mommies are going to protest the Silverado Gunshow on Saturday morning the 21st of October.
If you are in the DC area and can make it to the Montgomery county fairgrounds please show up and make this a well attended show. http://www.silveradogunshow.com/
Please show up!
I have heard that most of the venues for gunshows in MD have accepted State money for repairs, now the State wants to limit the activities.
Here are some recent letters to the editor about the controversy:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>One of your recent letters by Vicki King (“Gun shows out of place at county fairgrounds,” Sept. 27)
had some things to say about gun shows at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, including a
re-statement of the popular fiction about so-called “assault weapons” and other nonexistent
weapons being sold at gun shows.
I understand where she is coming from. As a once rurally challenged individual, I too embraced all
sorts of stereotypes about gun owners and gun shows, all of which dissolved once I was exposed
to the reality of both.
Ignorance is a terrible thing.
Finally, Ms. King says she is disgusted with how her tax dollars are being indirectly spent to host
this gun show. She has my empathy. As someone who watches millions of tax dollars spent
annually on public schemes with which I personally take offense, I understand her disgust.
When she figures out a way to please all the people all the time, maybe she can let us in on the
secret.
Michael Koller, Germantown
I am glad that some people in Montgomery County are relieved that our elected officials and
members of the Million Mom March are watching over the safety of our children and our tax
dollars.
However, I am also a taxpayer, a mother and an independent voter, who also has a say in how
the county fairgrounds are used.
Montgomery County was once agricultural-based before it became development-based. That’s
why the county fair still has a produce and livestock competition.
But, with our farmland dwindling each year, this will soon become history.
People also hunted for sport and for food. In fact, some schools actually had a liberal leave policy
on the first day of hunting season because so many students and teachers would be absent due
to the need to hunt. When I say “need,” I mean that they had to hunt, to put food on the table.
Now that, too, is almost impossible due to development.
I say to the elected officials and the hysterical mothers, thanks but no thanks. I do not need you
to tell me what is best for my family and me. I raised my children to know the difference between
right and wrong, to choose their friends wisely, and to be tolerant of other people’s ideas and
values. They know that guns can maim and kill, but they know also that they are used for
collecting, protection and skeet and target shooting.
Gun shows have the same right to be at the fairgrounds as the computer shows do. We all know
that computers are educational tools that can also give our children access to pornography,
violence and pipe bomb instructions.
Darlene Merry Hamilton, Silver Spring
Something does not smell right in this gun show dispute.
Some state legislator supported a bill that contributed money for the renovation of the
fairgrounds, and a few weeks before a gun show he decides that the show should not take place.
Where is due process? Are gun shows illegal?
Where are the rights of the organizers and owners of the property who have planned this event
for months? These shows have taken place for years — why was there no condition attached to
the money the state contributed.
I am not a member of the NRA, nor do I support gun shows. But I do believe everyone has a right
to reasonable treatment under the law. Until gun shows are made illegal, let them take place. You
do not have to attend.
Rolf Tschudin, Kensington[/quote] http://www.gazette.net/letters/
If you are in the DC area and can make it to the Montgomery county fairgrounds please show up and make this a well attended show. http://www.silveradogunshow.com/
Please show up!
I have heard that most of the venues for gunshows in MD have accepted State money for repairs, now the State wants to limit the activities.
Here are some recent letters to the editor about the controversy:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>One of your recent letters by Vicki King (“Gun shows out of place at county fairgrounds,” Sept. 27)
had some things to say about gun shows at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, including a
re-statement of the popular fiction about so-called “assault weapons” and other nonexistent
weapons being sold at gun shows.
I understand where she is coming from. As a once rurally challenged individual, I too embraced all
sorts of stereotypes about gun owners and gun shows, all of which dissolved once I was exposed
to the reality of both.
Ignorance is a terrible thing.
Finally, Ms. King says she is disgusted with how her tax dollars are being indirectly spent to host
this gun show. She has my empathy. As someone who watches millions of tax dollars spent
annually on public schemes with which I personally take offense, I understand her disgust.
When she figures out a way to please all the people all the time, maybe she can let us in on the
secret.
Michael Koller, Germantown
I am glad that some people in Montgomery County are relieved that our elected officials and
members of the Million Mom March are watching over the safety of our children and our tax
dollars.
However, I am also a taxpayer, a mother and an independent voter, who also has a say in how
the county fairgrounds are used.
Montgomery County was once agricultural-based before it became development-based. That’s
why the county fair still has a produce and livestock competition.
But, with our farmland dwindling each year, this will soon become history.
People also hunted for sport and for food. In fact, some schools actually had a liberal leave policy
on the first day of hunting season because so many students and teachers would be absent due
to the need to hunt. When I say “need,” I mean that they had to hunt, to put food on the table.
Now that, too, is almost impossible due to development.
I say to the elected officials and the hysterical mothers, thanks but no thanks. I do not need you
to tell me what is best for my family and me. I raised my children to know the difference between
right and wrong, to choose their friends wisely, and to be tolerant of other people’s ideas and
values. They know that guns can maim and kill, but they know also that they are used for
collecting, protection and skeet and target shooting.
Gun shows have the same right to be at the fairgrounds as the computer shows do. We all know
that computers are educational tools that can also give our children access to pornography,
violence and pipe bomb instructions.
Darlene Merry Hamilton, Silver Spring
Something does not smell right in this gun show dispute.
Some state legislator supported a bill that contributed money for the renovation of the
fairgrounds, and a few weeks before a gun show he decides that the show should not take place.
Where is due process? Are gun shows illegal?
Where are the rights of the organizers and owners of the property who have planned this event
for months? These shows have taken place for years — why was there no condition attached to
the money the state contributed.
I am not a member of the NRA, nor do I support gun shows. But I do believe everyone has a right
to reasonable treatment under the law. Until gun shows are made illegal, let them take place. You
do not have to attend.
Rolf Tschudin, Kensington[/quote] http://www.gazette.net/letters/