Letters to the Editor copy/paste bank II

[jimpeel]

This is my favorite "grab ya by the lapels and shake ya" post.

Gun control has, in this century, caused the deaths of 57 million men, women, and children. These deaths in Ottoman Turkey, USSR, Nazi Germany, China, Guatemala, Uganda, Cambodia, and Rwanda were all perpetrated by the governments of these nations after the advent of gun control. In Boznia-Herzegovenia the world sat and watched as rape was used as a weapon of war and the slaughter of thousands continued unabated after one side had been disarmed. We watched and did nothing. The common factor to these murders has been the inception of gun control over the people prior to the commencement of the slaughter. From Ottoman Turkey to Boznia-Herzegovenia that one common thread is the catalyst to the murder of these people. Is this to say that gun control causes genocide? No. What it does say is that gun control has been the key facilitator of every genocide of this century.

Mathematically, that works out to one person murdered by their own government every fifty-five seconds for one-hundred years.

 

[George Hill]

Whoa.

 

[glockguy45]

Jimpeel,

I love to ask who has killed more innocent people(gov't or civi's) to the anti-gunners..

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Rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

 

[Monkeyleg]

Subject:
"NRA aims high"
Date:
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:12:28 -0600
From:
Richard ***** <r3894@execpc.com>
Organization:
ExecPC
To:
jsedit@onwis.com


In a March 16th editorial blasting the National Rifle Association's
comments about President Clinton, the Journal Sentinel attempted to
defend Mr. Clinton's record on prosecution of federal gun law violations
by confusingly mixing local, state and federal prosecutorial
jurisdictions.
Since the issue at hand is the Clinton record on federal gun law
prosecutions, it is time to set the record straight.

Contrary to the editorial's statements, there is a federal police force
for investigating federal gun law violations: the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms. And BATF referrals to federal prosecutors for gun
law violations fell 44% from 1992 to 1998.* During that period, the NRA
pressed for increased prosecutions for gun law violations through
programs such as Milwaukee's newly enacted Operation Ceasefire, yet the
Clinton Administration refused to implement or even fund the programs.
It was only until late last year, when polls indicated increasing
support for enforcement of existing laws, that the Administration
changed its position to support such programs.

The editorial further claimed that the prime authority for enforcing gun
laws is at the local rather than the federal level. If this is the case,
then what is the point of having federal gun control laws, or pushing
for additional
federal laws as Mr. Clinton does on a daily basis?

The central question in this latest bout of name-calling is whether Mr.
Clinton is, as the NRA asserts, a liar. Jokes about finger-wagging
aside, he has certainly "massaged the truth" when he claims 500,000
felons have been stopped by the Brady Law.** He "stretched the truth"
when he suggested that trigger lock legislation would have encouraged
dealers in a drug house to lock up the guns they had stolen, one of
which was used by a six-year-old victim of those criminals to kill his
classmate. He has lied about 13 children a day being killed by guns,
unless you accept the absurd notion that criminals as old as 21 are
"children." *** And a few days ago he lied in a speech when he said he
was once a life member of the NRA.****

Is the NRA's characterization of Mr. Clinton as a liar correct? To use
the editorial's own words: well, you be the judge.


Richard *******


* Source: analysis of BATF records by Syracuse University

**Source: Government Accounting Office report: "Of the 4.8% disapproved,
nearly half involved administrative errors (applications prepared or
mailed incorrectly, etc.) or erroneous denials for traffic tickets.
Persons denied for violent and nonviolent crime-related reasons
accounted for 2.4% of applicants; denials due to administrative errors,
2%; and denials due to traffic tickets, 0.4%. Only four
jurisdictions--Ohio; South Carolina; and Harris (Houston) and Tarrant
(Fort Worth) Counties, Texas--had
records identifying denials for violent crime reasons, and 0.2% of
handgun purchase applications were so denied. "

***Source: National Safety Council

****Source: The Washington Post