Right on cue the good little puppets at The
Post-Star come out with once again another in their long line of
anti-gun propaganda, this time they use training as the lead in. Gun control
makes it easier to defend yourself? What are you guys smoking? It is gun
control that has put more people in harm’s way and got more people killed.
Almost every one of these mass shootings has happened in gun free zones. Same
weekend as California, 18 died and over 70 injured in Chicago, by the way has
the toughest gun laws. Did real well for the 18 killed?
On 9/11 thousands of lives lost and tens of billions of
damage was done with box cutters! Oklahoma City, hundreds killed and millions
of dollars in damage done with a van, diesel fuel and fertilizer, not one gun
used! Israel, how many have been killed or injured because of car and knife
attacks? DWI, how many deaths and have more laws stopped them? Heroin, how many
stories about the epidemic have you done? Last time I checked it's illegal to
make, sell or use, will more laws change that?
It is not the tool that is used, but the heart and mind of the people who use it, and that is the "common sense" part that you keep missing! Let’s face it, your way of doing it has not worked, and you just want to keep going down the same road of insanity doing the same thing over and over.
May as well rerun mine.
If there was an epidemic killing 90 Americans a day, 33,000
a year, do you think we would be wise to spend money researching it? Yes, is
the answer I'm hoping for. If so, you're not a congressman protecting his
precious standing with the NRA. Mass shootings are less than the tip of the
iceberg at 2 percent to 3 percent of the firearm deaths in this country. We
need to have someone to look at the 97 percent that don't run on TV for days on
end.
The Dickey Amendment in 1996 cut off funding to the CDC
because Congress (the NRA) was afraid that research into firearm deaths would
hurt gun and ammo sales. A study prior to the amendment found that having a gun
in your house does not make you and your family safer. Why are gun producers
allowed to control research on their deadly product? And push misinformation on
the public? We don't allow cigarette manufacturers to control tobacco research
and education.
Even Jay Dickey now says, "Doing nothing is no longer
an acceptable solution." Continuing to allow the National Rifle
Association to control gun policy in the U.S. is also not an acceptable
solution. We can start fixing that next November in this district. Anyone who's
stamped Grade A Prime venal by their organization is not going to help solve the
problem.
I have a few random thoughts on Mr. DiCroce's letter, though I hope not as random as the thoughts that run skittering around in the letter itself. He starts out complaining about the editorial and ends up going onto 9/11, Oklahoma City, Israel, DWI and heroin. At one time, I would respond to the Post Star with a letter of my own disputing some of those fine points he makes. Reasons not to; include not wanting to pick low hanging fruit, not wanting to pick on the slow kids and not wanting to discourage him from writing these sterling missives. Dear Lord, don't stop! I do, in some perverse way, enjoy reading them and I can't believe he's doing his side any good. In fact, it's hard to believe that there isn't some mucky-muck, GOP chairman or some such that doesn't contact this guy and say, "I beseech you to please stop writing to the editor."
Also wanted to point out that at least I answer my rhetorical questions. Really wish he had because I believe that on some of them I may not have been answering quite as he was indicating. On DWI: yes, I believe more laws have at least caused there to be fewer, though of course it cannot be proven. On heroin: the PS has run stories on the epidemic. Though maybe his point is that the stories didn't stop the abuse of this drug.
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