All of these letters-to-the-editor have been published in local newspapers. Feel free to use pieces of them as a basis for your pro-gun letters. You can use the "Select All", "Copy", and "Paste" commands on your computer's "Edit" menu to copy these to a text file on your computer.
If you want your letters to be published then you must follow the newspaper's guidelines and send them to the correct address. Usually the guidelines appear on the editorial page or on the second page of the newspaper. Emailed letters are more likely to be published since the newspaper doesn't need to retype them. Your letter must stick to one point and be under the word limit. The word limit is usually 200 words, but a 100 word letter is twice as likely to be published as a 200 word letter. Remember, you can write more than one letter, although my local paper seems to only publish one letter from a given person in each month. They may reject some of your letters, usually due to lack of space. Keep trying. Letters that refer to a recent news event or editorial are much more likely to be published. Make sure that the grammar and spelling are good and the letter is easy to understand. I've posted both my version of each letter and also the edited version that appeared in the newspaper. Most of the editor's changes were improvements.
In the following letter, notice that the editor removed all references to their newspaper columnist. The editor agonized over this letter for a long time and it did not appear in print until after a longer than usual delay. On one hand it was full of useful information. But on the other hand I made their columnist sound like an twit. Don't count on an editor being this kind. I should have said that the columnist was "intimidated" or "uneasy" not "afraid". Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 3 July 1999.
In a recent column, D.L. Stewart wrote that he was afraid of guns because his stepfather never taught him about them. It's good to fear guns and chainsaws a little, but terrified uninformed people do stupid things like cutting their arms off.
Nothing can substitute for a father's instruction in the manly arts of spitting watermelon seeds and rooting for the Browns, but D.L. can learn about guns on his own.
First, read the book "Complete Guide to Guns & Shooting" by John Malloy. Any bookstore can order it, or buy it at www.powells.com for $20. Second, read the www.recguns.com website. Third, call 800-336-7402 and spend $15 on item ES11545, the "NRA Gun Safety Package", which includes two videos and seven pamphlets.
You've now spent less than fifty dollars and already know more about guns than most people involved in the "gun-control" debate. If you are anti-gun, you are more likely to be listened to if you know the difference between a semi-automatic hunting rifle and a fully-automatic military assault rifle. If you are interested in shooting, you still need a safety class, but you will get more out of it.
It's good to fear guns and chainsaws a little, but terrified uninformed people do stupid things like cutting their arms off.
Nothing can substitute for a father's instruction in the manly arts of spitting watermelon seeds and rooting for the Browns, but anyone can learn about guns on his own.
First, read the book "Complete Guide to Guns & Shooting" by John Malloy. Any bookstore can order it, or buy it at www.powells.com for $20. Second, read the www.recguns.com website. Third, call 800-336-7402 and spend $15 on item ES11545, the "NRA Gun Safety Package", which includes two videos and seven pamphlets.
You've now spent less than fifty dollars and already know more about guns than most people involved in the "gun-control" debate. If you are anti-gun, you are more likely to be listened to if you know the difference between a semi-automatic hunting rifle and a fully-automatic military assault rifle. If you are interested in shooting, you still need a safety class, but you will get more out of it.
The following letter attacks Al Gore as being soft on crime. I believe that this is a good strategy with gun-control advocates in general and Clinton/Gore in particular. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 14 July 1999.
So Al Gore wants more gun-control laws. Why don't we try enforcing the current laws first?
Under existing Federal law, it is illegal for a person to buy a handgun if he is less than 21 years old. The Clinton-Gore Justice department does not enforce this law. Al Gore did not even know this law existed until Tom Brokaw told him about it recently.
Under the Federal "Brady Bill" law, criminals can be jailed if they even try to buy a gun. But the Clinton-Gore administration allowed more than 250,000 criminals to go free after they failed background checks. Wouldn't jailing these gun-seeking criminals cut crime and deaths more than any possible new gun-control law? They can't buy guns on the street if they are in jail! But Federal prosecutors say they are "too busy" to enforce the Brady Bill law. What the heck are they doing instead? Thinking up new laws that will not be enforced either?
Over 250,000 dangerous criminals are on the street because Al Gore failed to enforce the existing gun laws. Al Gore talks big but Al Gore is soft on gun crime.
That letter was printed exactly as written, so I will not bother to reproduce the printed version.
The next letter was a response to an ultra-liberal newspaper columnist's off-hand swipe at the NRA. It was written while I was boiling mad. On one hand, that makes for an interesting and provocative letter which is more likely to be published. On the other hand, it plays into the depiction of gunowners as hot-tempered savages. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 11 August 1999.
In a recent DDN column Mary McCarty demanded that the NRA be reined in after the Columbine tragedy. Shouldn't we rein in gun-control advocates instead? At least one of the Columbine High School murderers was the son of a gun-control advocate. This gun-control advocate allowed his son to possess illegal guns, build bombs in the garage, break into cars, and worship Hitler. An NRA member would not allow a child to run wild like that!
We will be cursed with these massacres as long as gun-control advocates allow their children to murder people. Slamming the NRA just diverts attention from the real culprits: lazy and incompetent parents who refuse to discipline their children.
Of course, diverting attention is the whole point of slamming the NRA, isn't it? Otherwise gun-control advocates might have to actually spend some time raising their children. This way, they can let their children run wild, then blame the NRA for any misbehavior.
In the July 30 Dayton Daily News column "Don't punish all of PBS just because a few people goofed," Mary McCarty demanded that the NRA be reined in after the Columbine tragedy. Shouldn't we rein in gun-control advocates instead? At least one of the Columbine High School murderers was the son of a gun-control advocate. This gun-control advocate allowed his son to possess illegal guns, build bombs in the garage, break into cars, and worship Hitler. An NRA member would not allow a child to run wild like that!
We will be cursed with these massacres as long as gun-control advocates allow their children to murder people. Slamming the NRA just diverts attention from the real culprits: lazy and incompetent parents who refuse to discipline their children.
Of course, diverting attention is the whole point of slamming the NRA, isn't it? Otherwise gun-control advocates might have to actually spend some time raising their children. This way, they can let their children run wild, then blame the NRA for any misbehavior.
This letter was a response to complaints from anti-gun readers about the newspaper publishing an advertising supplement for the largest and most reputable gun dealer in the Dayton Ohio area. Note that I depict anti-gun forces as censors, which hits a hot button with journalists and liberals. Published in the Kettering-Oakwood Times, Kettering, Ohio, USA, 15 December 1999.
Thank you for defying the anti-gun censors and publishing the Olde English Gun Shoppe ad. Honest people need to know where they can buy guns to defend themselves against criminals. Olde English always runs criminal background checks before selling any gun. Criminals, of course, can buy guns from any drug dealer or illegal "street" gun dealer. Your courageous stand will save dozens of lives in the Dayton area.
Anti-gun censors know that they must eliminate the First Amendment right to free speech so that they can eliminate the Second Amendment right to bear firearms. They don't want anyone to know that honest people with guns prevent more than 2 million crimes each year, according to a study by Florida State University professors Gary Kleck and Mark Gertz. Yes, many of those honest citizens use the so-called "evil" brands of handguns that Olde English Gun Shoppe sells, and which are also commonly used by police. If these handguns magically turn honest citizens into homicidal maniacs, like the anti-gun censors claim, then we should prohibit police from using them.
That letter was printed exactly as written, so I will not bother to reproduce the printed version.
This letter responds to a newspaper column on preventing child gun accidents. The column was mostly balanced, although they listed several anti-gun websites as additional resources, in addition to the NRA "Eddie Eagle" site. The original column totally ignored the fact that most "child" gun deaths are either suicides or else caused by teenage drug dealers shooting each other. Note the subtle slam depicting anti-gun forces as a moneymaking industry rather than a "benevolent" group. That particular slam happens to be true, and this is a good approach for further attacks. (The president of Handgun Control Incorporated, for instance, makes more than $150,000 a year according to a story in the Wall Street Journal, 28 December 1999, page B6. How much does the owner of HCI (Sarah Brady) make? It might be worthwhile getting the annual report from HCI and finding out.) The editor cut this letter down considerably, and the cuts are largely improvements. Short letters are more likely to be read, as well as more likely to be published. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 8 February 2000.
The Dayton Daily News recently published a good article on child gun safety. Here are some more ways to protect your child from gun violence.
Treat depression promptly. Most gun deaths are suicides. There were 18,000 suicides out of 34,000 total gun deaths in 1995. A politically-correct rope suicide is just as tragic as a politically-incorrect gun suicide.
Don't let your children sell or use illegal drugs. Estimates vary, but roughly half of all gun murders are drug-related. Judging by news media reports, in Dayton it is two-thirds. Teenage drug dealers shoot rival drug dealers. Drug dealers shoot cops. Cops shoot drug dealers. Drug dealers shoot their customers. Customers shoot drug dealers. Customers shoot honest people in robberies, so they can buy drugs. When politicians talk about the "innocent child victims of gun violence", they always include teenage drug dealers.
Teach your children not to abuse alcohol. Drunkenness causes tragedy, especially when mixed with guns, cars, or knives.
Lock up your guns whenever practical. The NRA recommends a sturdy safe, instead of the flimsy gun locks that the gun-control industry pushes.
The Dayton Daily News recently published a good article on child gun safety. Here are some more ways to protect your child from gun violence.
Treat depression promptly. Most gun deaths are suicides. There were 18,000 suicides out of 34,000 total gun deaths in 1995.
Don't let your children sell or use illegal drugs. Estimates vary, but roughly half of all gun murders are drug-related.
Teach your children not to abuse alcohol. Drunkenness causes tragedy, especially when mixed with guns, cars, or knives.
Lock up your guns whenever practical. The NRA recommends a sturdy safe, instead of the flimsy gun locks that the gun-control industry pushes.
Only the first half of this letter was printed. The second paragraph was cut, due to three mistakes on my part. First, I pointed out that a foolish police chief was foolish. This could be interpreted as a personal attack. Second, I said that anti-gun journalists are just as foolish. This must be done with tact, if at all. It is easy for successful journalists to become arrogant, just as lawyers and doctors frequently become arrogant and make fools of themselves outside their narrow specialties. But arrogant people really don't want to hear about their mistakes. Third, the second paragraph begins to wander away from the point. Perhaps it should have been a second letter. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 30 April 2000.
Recently a police chief wrote that he rarely heard about guns being used to prevent crime. When I was a computer repairman, I rarely heard about customers fixing their own computers. I was only called when the customer could not do the job himself. The same is true of police. People do not call the police about crimes that did not occur. My customers did not want to pay for a service call. People do not want to be arrested for "brandishing a firearm" after they scare away a criminal. Two million crimes are prevented that way each year.
But don't get too smug about "foolish police chiefs." Journalists fall into the same trap. You never see the story "Joe Schmoe has been target shooting for 50 years without injuring anyone." Common events are not news. You will see nationwide TV coverage of "Drug dealer's gun used by six-year-old to kill classmate." Rare events are news. So journalists and the public think that guns are always used for crime, because that is all they hear about.
Recently a police chief wrote that he rarely heard about guns being used to prevent crime. When I was a computer repairman, I rarely heard about customers fixing their own computers. I was only called when the customer could not do the job himself. The same is true of police. People do not call the police about crimes that did not occur. My customers did not want to pay for a service call. People do not want to be arrested for "brandishing a firearm" after they scare away a criminal. Two million crimes are prevented that way each year.
This letter responds to a newspaper series on guns being bought in Ohio and used in crimes in other states. Along the way, the newspaper discovered that most gunrunning could be prevented by examining existing records and enforcing existing laws. However, they ignored their own evidence and recommended more laws instead of enforcing the existing ones. Sigh. The only problem with this letter was that it was a little wordy (my perpetual problem) and the resulting newspaper editing weakened it. If you want your letters to be published intact, then keep them short! Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 15 December 2000.
The Dayton Daily News is calling for gun-rationing schemes like the one gun per month limit that Virginia has. I lived in Virginia when that limit was adopted and it didn't work. Some drug dealers started requiring their customers to pay for drugs with legally-acquired guns instead of with cash. Others merely smuggled in guns from farther away.
Criminals can always buy guns somewhere farther away. Drug dealers can buy guns in Mexico, where corrupt government officials have imposed super-strict gun laws on honest people, but deliberately allow the wealthy drug lords to ignore those laws. (Sound familiar?) Or drug dealers can buy Eastern European and Chinese guns and hide them in their drug shipments. US drug smugglers brought in 690,000 pounds of cocaine in the first 6 months of 2000. (source: USA Today, 28 September 2000, page 3A) You can hide a lot of guns in 690,000 pounds of cocaine! What are you going to do, X-ray every illegal drug shipment to make sure there aren't any guns in it?
If you want to reduce gun deaths, then enforce the drug laws.
The Dayton Daily News is calling for gun-rationing schemes like the one gun per month limit that Virginia has.
I lived in Virginia when that limit was adopted and it didn't work. Some drug dealers started requiring their customers to pay for drugs with legally-acquired guns instead of with cash. Others merely smuggled in guns from farther away.
Criminals can always buy guns somewhere farther away. Drug dealers can buy guns in Mexico, where corrupt government officials have imposed super-strict gun laws on honest people, but deliberately allow the wealthy drug lords to ignore those laws. Sound familiar?
Or drug dealers can buy Eastern European and Chinese guns and hide them in their drug shipments. US drug smugglers brought in 690,000 pounds of cocaine in the first 6 months of 2000.
If you want to reduce gun deaths, then enforce the drug laws.
This letter responds to a column by this particular newspaper's most anti-gun columnist. Of course she also worships Bill Clinton as a god, despite his pardoning a dozen gunrunning Puerto Rican terrorists in an attempt to help Hillary's Senate campaign. This would be funny if it wasn't so sad. (I simultaneously wrote a second letter in which I suggested that they identify Susan Hesselgesser as the local Million Mom March leader when she writes letters to the editor, so that readers can allow for the conflict of interest. The newspaper merged the two letters and added the info about the next MMM event!) Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 15 March 2001.
The Dayton area Million Mom Marchers are crazy if they think the NRA will help them implement gun background checks. The MMM chose Rosie O'Donnell as their spokeswoman after she said that "all gunowners should be thrown in jail." If you want to jail gunowners then you need a list of their names and addresses. Background checks provide lists of honest gunowners names and addresses. Why would the NRA help the MMM put honest gunowners in jail?
In her March 11 column ("Listen before they shoot"), Mary McCarty quoted Susan Hesselgesser of Centerville, state representative of the newly chartered Dayton Area Chapter of the Million Mom March, as saying closing the "gun-show loophole" will be the main focus of a Mother's Day rally to be hel in Columbus.
Hesselgesser said, "I really think if we work together, that's a place where the Million Mom March and the NRA can come together. The NRA is not opposed to background checks."
The Dayton area Million Mom Marchers are crazy if they think the NRA will help them implement gun background checks. The MMM chose Rosie O'Donnell as their spokeswoman after she said that "all gunowners should be thrown in jail." If you want to jail gunowners then you need a list of their names and addresses. Background checks provide lists of honest gunowners names and addresses. Why would the NRA help the MMM put honest gunowners in jail?
I made a mistake in this one that I didn't catch until after it was published. According to the Centers For Disease Control , child gun deaths dropped from 6 per day in 1998 (if you count 17-year-old heroin dealers as children) to 5 per day in 2000. That is a 17% decrease, not 20%. I suppose that mistake is insignificant compared to the gun-control industry's claims that "10 Americans aged 15 or under die from gunfire each day." (gun-control lobbyist Michael Beard, quoted in Dayton Daily News, 28 March 2001, page A2) Of course that isn't true. The actual number was 935 for all of 1998. That is fewer than 3 per day. Still, I hate to make even a small mistake. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 19 June 2001.
Congratulations on the Associated Press award for the Dayton Daily News' investigative series on gun smuggling. You've covered how criminals get guns. Now it's time for an award-winning series on why criminals get guns.
According to your series, "The number of gun cases referred for prosecution by the ATF dropped almost by half from 1992 through 1997, before starting to rebound in 1998." (source: DDN, 10 December 2000, page 13A) The gun murder rate leveled-off during 1992-1997 despite falling in 1990-1991. After normal law enforcement resumed the number of child gun deaths fell by 20% between 1998-2000. We know that criticism from the NRA forced the government to resume normal law enforcement. But why did the Clinton-Gore administration cut back on federal gun law enforcement from 1992-1997? Was it because more gun deaths means more votes for anti-gun politicians? Politicians like Bill Clinton and Al Gore?
We know that Bill Clinton pardoned a dozen gun-smuggling Puerto-Rican terrorists. Political analysts agree that the pardon was designed to help Hillary's Senate campaign. Why did Bill think that this controversial pardon w ould help Hillary? Was it because more gun deaths means more votes for anti-gun politicians like Hillary?
If not, then why?
That letter was printed exactly as written, so I will not bother to reproduce the printed version.
Why is this a pro-gun letter? Number one, because the NAACP sued gun manufacturers because so many blacks shoot other blacks. (According to the Centers For Disease Control blacks are 6 more times more likely to be killed with a gun than whites and 7 times more likely to kill someone by using a gun.) Like the KKK, the NAACP believes that blacks are inferior childlike creatures and it is negligent to sell guns to blacks. Number two, because after the NAACP filed that lawsuit, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume's son was arrested for selling illegal drugs. Hmm, every drug-related gun murder means a bigger payoff for the NAACP lawsuit. Every time that I think that gun-control advocates have reached the lowest possible level of ruthlessness and dishonesty, they surprise me by going even lower. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 13 July 2001.
The DDN recently ran a front-page article titled "NAACP chairman slams Bush record and appointees." This is not exactly front-page news. Of course NAACP chairman Julian Bond doesn't like George W. Bush. Julian Bond is a retired Democrat politician. So is NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. Democrat politicians don't like Republican presidents.
You missed the real front-page story. The once-proud NAACP is no longer a non-partisan civil rights organization. The Democrat-controlled NAACP even ran anti-Bush ads in Texas during the election. Now the NAACP is just a puppet of the Democrat party. The Democrats pull the strings and the NAACP dances.
Incidentally, this is why campaign finance reform is doomed. The Democrats are just too good at laundering campaign money through supposedly non-partisan organizations like the NAACP.
The DDN recently ran a front-page article titled "NAACP chairman slams Bush record and appointees." This is not exactly front-page news. Of course NAACP chairman Julian Bond doesn't like George W. Bush. Julian Bond is a retired Democrat politician. So is NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. Democrat politicians don't like Republican presidents.
You missed the real front-page story. The once-proud National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is no longer a non-partisan civil rights organization. The Democrat-controlled NAACP even ran anti-Bush ads in Texas during the election. Now the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is just a puppet of the Democrat party. The Democrats pull the strings and the NAACP dances.
This one was written in response to a guest column from a local gun-control advocate who claimed that the Ohio CCW law was sailing through the Ohio state legislature because the NRA donated two billion dollars to Republicans. (The NRA's total political contributions since the beginning of time don't amount to that much, even if you count pro-gun Democrat John Dingell as a Republican. The NRA's political contributions for 2000 were only $35 million, which isn't much from 4 million members. However, gun-control advocates know that "A lie can go around the world before the truth can get its boots on.") A local cynic points out that it helps if you cite newspapers as an authority when you want your letters to be published in newspapers. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 16 November 2001.
Dayton Daily News columnist Rachael Holstine recently complained that Ohio lawmakers no longer take gun-control advocates seriously. She blamed the $9 per member that the NRA contributed to US politicians last year. The real reason is very simple.
Ohio lawmakers don't take gun-control advocates seriously because gun-control advocates have been wrong so many times. According to the Kentucky Post newspaper article "Weapons Law Works," before Kentucky passed a concealed weapons law, opponents "predicted a blood bath. Street corners and Little League games would dissolve into Wild West-like scenarios, they said."
According to the Kentucky Post "Five years and more than 62,000 permits later, that hasn't proven true. ... Police and other officials interviewed could not recall an incident in the last five years in which a gun carried under the law was used illegally." (Source: Kentucky Post online edition, 13 October 2001, "Weapons Laws Works," http://www.kypost.com/2001/oct/13/weapon101301.html )
Kentuckians have proven that they can handle concealed weapons. Gun-control advocates claim that Ohioans can't. Why do gun-control advocates believe that Ohioans are inferior to Kentuckians?
"Other Voices" columnist Rachael Holstine recently complained that Ohio lawmakers no longer take gun-control advocates seriously. She blamed the $9 per member that the NRA contributed to US politicians last year.
Ohio lawmakers don't take gun-control advocates seriously because gun-control advocates have been wrong so many times. According to an Oct. 13 Kentucky Post article "Weapons Law Works," before Kentucky passed a concealed weapons law, opponents "predicted a blood bath. Street corners and Little League games would dissolve into Wild West-like scenarios, they said."
According to the Post "Five years and more than 62,000 permits later, that hasn't proven true. ... Police and other officials interviewed could not recall an incident in the last five years in which a gun carried under the law was used illegally."
Kentuckians have proven that they can handle concealed weapons. Gun-control advocates claim that Ohioans can't. Why do gun-control advocates believe that Ohioans are inferior to Kentuckians?
This one was written in response to an editorial in the Dayton Daily News in which they found *one* retired ATF agent who believed that ballistic fingerprinting would work and therefore the DDN claimed that the overwhelming evidence against it didn't matter. This letter is really too long. The newspaper held it until after the election so that they would have room for it. Even then the editors cut the published version slightly. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 8 November 2002, page A11.
The Dayton Daily News editorial "Bullet registry drives gun crazies crazy" called gun fingerprinting opponents "crazy" because they don't want to spend billions of dollars on a scheme that didn't work in Maryland and New York.
Medical professionals are familiar with that kind of name calling.
Medical experts know that cancer can be cured with chemotherapy and surgery. Quack doctors say that patients should spend their money on apricot pits and magic potions instead. Medical quacks insult skeptics and blame their never-ending failures on an evil conspiracy headed by the American Medical Association.
Gun experts know that most gun deaths are suicides or drug-related murders. Gun control quacks say that we should spend billions of dollars on gun registration instead of spending the money preventing suicides by treating depression. They say that we should spend billions on gun licensing instead of using the money to enforce drug laws and treat drug addiction. Gun control quacks insult skeptics and blame their never-ending failures on an evil conspiracy headed by the National Rifle Association.
Now gun control quacks want to spend billions of dollars on gun fingerprinting instead of using the money to hire more police officers and track down terrorists armed with boxcutters.
The only crazy people are the ones who buy phony miracle cures.
The Dayton Daily News editorial "Bullet registry drives gun crazies crazy" disparaged gun fingerprinting opponents because they don't want to spend billions of dollars on a scheme that didn't work in Maryland and New York.
Medical professionals are familiar with that kind of name calling.
Medical experts know cancer can be cured with chemotherapy and surgery. Quack doctors say patients should spend their money on apricot pits and magic potions instead. Medical quacks insult skeptics and blame their never-ending failures on an evil conspiracy headed by the American Medical Association.
Gun experts know that most gun deaths are suicides or drug-related murders. Gun control quacks say we should spend billions of dollars on gun registration instead of spending the money to prevent suicides by treating depression. They say we should spend billions on gun licensing instead of using the money to enforce drug laws and treat drug addiction.
Gun control quacks insult skeptics and blame their never-ending failures on an evil conspiracy headed by the National Rifle Association.
Now gun control quacks want to spend billions of dollars on gun fingerprinting instead of using the money to hire more police officers and track down terrorists armed with boxcutters.
The only crazy people are the ones who buy phony miracle cures.
This one was written in response to yet another letter to the editor from a gun control lobbyist claiming that the streets would run with blood if Ohio legally allowed honest people to carry concealed weapons. Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 3 August 2003, page B7.
Actions speak louder than words. The letter to the Dayton Daily News titled "More guns mean more risks" claimed that an Ohio concealed weapons law wouldn't make honest people any safer, even though every hardened criminal in Ohio is already illegally carrying a concealed weapon. Gun control lobbyists claim that increasing the number of guns in the hands of honest people will do more harm than good.
The actions of gun control lobbyists directly contradict their words. For example, Sarah Brady's son Scott avoided the Brady criminal background check by getting Sarah Brady to buy the gun for him. Sarah Brady bragged about the incident in her book "A Good Fight." Brady wrote "And I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car, and drove home. It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat." (source: "A Good Fight", Sarah Brady, chapter 21, page 223 of first edition hardback, ISBN 1-58648-105-3)
If guns really did more harm than good then gun control lobbyists would stop buying guns for their own children, wouldn't they?
Headline: Actions louder than words
The letter "More guns mean more risks," July 21, claimed that an Ohio concealed weapons law wouldn't make honest people any safer, even though every hardened criminal in Ohio is already illegally carrying a concealed weapon.
Gun-control lobbyists claim that increasing the number of guns in the hands of honest people will do more harm than good.
The actions of gun-control lobbyists directly contradict their words. For example, Sarah Brady's son, Scott, was not subject to the Brady criminal background check because his mother bought the gun for him.
Brady bragged about the incident in her book "A Good Fight." She wrote "And I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car, and drove home. It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."
If guns really did more harm than good, then gun control lobbyists would stop buying guns for their own children, wouldn't they?
.This one was written in response to an editorial in the Dayton Daily News about the study from the mis-named gun control business "Americans For Gun Safety" that claimed Ohio is the eighth-highest source of guns used in crimes in other states. The editorial blamed lax laws (humbug!) and lax law enforcement (partially true). Published in the Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 11 September 2003, page A15.
The Dayton Daily News blames "lax laws" because the gun control group Americans For Gun Safety claims Ohio is the eighth worst source of smuggled guns. California has super-strict gun control laws and it is number three. Virginia has a "one gun per month" limit and it is the worst at number one. Georgia is number two. (source #1: "Ohio needs stopper for iron pipeline", Dayton Daily News, 30 August 2003, page A12) (source #2: http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/3/068047-8063-127.html )
Good highways connect the top gun sources to drug-infested areas like Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Florida. Illegal drug money pays for these smuggled guns. Four out of every five homicides in Washington DC are drug-related. Every week the Dayton Daily News reports more drug-related shootings in Dayton. (source: "Armed", Kleck and Kates, page 21, ISBN 1-57392-883-6)
We don't have a gun smuggling problem in this country. What we have is a drug problem. If the illegal drug dealers were arrested then the market for smuggled guns would dry up. Gun control groups don't like to mention illegal drugs because gun control lobbyists like Ben Gelt, who founded the gun control group SAFE students, have been caught with illegal drugs. (source: "Barnes-Gelt's son charged in D.C. drug raid", The Denver Post, 24 February 2002)
Headline: Drug dealers provide market for guns
RE: "OHIO NEEDS STOPPER FOR IRON PIPELINE," Aug. 30: The Dayton Daily News blames "lax laws" because the gun control group Americans For Gun Safety claims Ohio is the eighth worst source of smuggled guns.
California has super-strict gun-control laws and it is number three. Virginia has a "one gun per month" limit and it is the worst at number one. Georgia is number two.
Good highways connect the top gun sources to drug-infested areas like Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Florida. Illegal drug money pays for these smuggled guns. Four out of every five homicides in Washington DC are drug-related. The DDN often reports drug-related shootings in Dayton.
We don't have a gun smuggling problem in this country: what we have is a drug problem. If the illegal drug dealers were arrested then the market for smuggled guns would dry up.
Gun-control groups don't like to mention illegal drugs because gun-control lobbyists such as Ben Gelt, who founded the gun-control group SAFE students, in response to the Columbine shootings, have been caught with illegal drugs.
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