Take a BIG dose of Maalox before reading.
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Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Letters To The Editor
NRA member's logic easily shot full of holes
Friday, April 28, 2000
Joseph F. Wayne states in his recent letter,
"I am the NRA.'' I certainly hope he means "Not Responsible American'' or "Not Reasonable American,'' otherwise he is the National Rifle Association to which many of my responsible hunting and sporting friends belong.
Sadly, I waded through his clumsy analogies. He feels safer in a gun store than a doctor's office, because 98,000 people per year are killed in medical accidents. If he gets a life-threatening illness, be sure he rushes to the gun store.
He equates schools refusing to offer gun-safety training (efforts to reduce children's exposure to guns), to the lack of swimming and driving instruction leading to drowning and driving accidents. Pools and cars are dangerous but they are not made for the purpose of killing. (Should we require liability insurance for guns too ?).
The NRA deserves credit for giving gun- safety training and this training does save lives, but this misses the point. There are times when we must be protected from ourselves.
(Steady lads, steady - Oatka)
Wayne says the media sensationalizes events like the Columbine killings. Maybe, but it still happened. We agree government intervention into personal conduct should be minimal, but society's view of guns and violence is changing.
Whether this glorification of violence is caused by the disintegration of the family unit, gangster rap, or media violence, safety training would not have stopped it.
If society is eroding, the government must step in with laws and penalties. Place trigger locks on all guns. Use technology to prevent gun accidents. Incriminate owners whose guns have harmed others, no matter who pulled the trigger.
(Steady, steady)
Hold gun makers responsible for injury and death like automobile and alcohol makers. Use available safety technology or bear some responsibility. I beg gun owners to consider the welfare of our children and stop hiding behind your narrow interpretation of the Second Amendment. Allow the government to protect us from ourselves!
(Take another dose)
Maybe the statement in the Declaration of Independence should be in the Bill of Rights with the Second Amendment: The unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Take away the first and the other two are gone. Doug Poe Columbus
You can't reach Doug
but you can write the Editor at: letters@dispatch.com
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3909b0b57d48.htm#1
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Letters To The Editor
NRA member's logic easily shot full of holes
Friday, April 28, 2000
Joseph F. Wayne states in his recent letter,
"I am the NRA.'' I certainly hope he means "Not Responsible American'' or "Not Reasonable American,'' otherwise he is the National Rifle Association to which many of my responsible hunting and sporting friends belong.
Sadly, I waded through his clumsy analogies. He feels safer in a gun store than a doctor's office, because 98,000 people per year are killed in medical accidents. If he gets a life-threatening illness, be sure he rushes to the gun store.
He equates schools refusing to offer gun-safety training (efforts to reduce children's exposure to guns), to the lack of swimming and driving instruction leading to drowning and driving accidents. Pools and cars are dangerous but they are not made for the purpose of killing. (Should we require liability insurance for guns too ?).
The NRA deserves credit for giving gun- safety training and this training does save lives, but this misses the point. There are times when we must be protected from ourselves.
(Steady lads, steady - Oatka)
Wayne says the media sensationalizes events like the Columbine killings. Maybe, but it still happened. We agree government intervention into personal conduct should be minimal, but society's view of guns and violence is changing.
Whether this glorification of violence is caused by the disintegration of the family unit, gangster rap, or media violence, safety training would not have stopped it.
If society is eroding, the government must step in with laws and penalties. Place trigger locks on all guns. Use technology to prevent gun accidents. Incriminate owners whose guns have harmed others, no matter who pulled the trigger.
(Steady, steady)
Hold gun makers responsible for injury and death like automobile and alcohol makers. Use available safety technology or bear some responsibility. I beg gun owners to consider the welfare of our children and stop hiding behind your narrow interpretation of the Second Amendment. Allow the government to protect us from ourselves!
(Take another dose)
Maybe the statement in the Declaration of Independence should be in the Bill of Rights with the Second Amendment: The unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Take away the first and the other two are gone. Doug Poe Columbus
You can't reach Doug
but you can write the Editor at: letters@dispatch.com------------------
The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited April 28, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited April 28, 2000).]
) If that kid had died- from water- do we sue God?
