The local paper today in Letters to the Editor contained another anti gun diatribe, the following is my reply:
Gun control has been proven ineffective ;
On Monday 03 - 16, you carried a poorly researched letter by Wayne Gregoire again spouting the discredited theory that hand guns should be banned .
To read that letter one would think that violent crime did not exist prior to the invention of gun powder. Let’s look at history for a bit, as Santayana says “those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeating it”. The first murder of which we have a historical record comes from the Bible, whether you are a believer or not it is worth noting that the weapon used was a rock.
A second lesson from history, Rome, long before the age of gun powder the city of Rome was so over run with violent crime that it led to the invention of the “municipal Police force”. They were called “Vigile’s” and were drawn from the Praetorian Guard.
Mr. Gregoire claims that ’gun deaths” in European counties and Australia “range from 60 to 350 per year”, his numbers are fictitious . According to the website WWW.gunfacts.info and conversations with acquaintances in England and Australia , since private firearms ownership has been curtailed the incedence of gun related crime has sky rocketed, in England in general and New South Wales in particular it has increased 300%. I will point out that these are Island nations where everything that enters “legally” can be inspected and controlled. We can’t seem to keep 5foot + illegal aliens from entering our country, how does this individual propose to keep out “illegal arms ? Did these people learn nothing from “Prohibition” and the expensive, miserably failing “war on drugs”? Bans do not work.
Another example of Mr. Gregoire’s lack of factual information is his ignoring the study done in Rochester NY which concluded that 85% of violent crimes are committed with knives, clubs or fists and feet.
If Mr. Gregoire is so concerned with violent crime why doesn’t he contact his legislators seeking stiffer sentencing for violent offenders ? His specious arguments are the equivalent of blaming tableware for obesity .
In closing I have two other items to mention. The first is that the Second Amendment is the only Constitutionally guaranteed civil right that requires individual government approval . As a CCW holder I have been twice certified as a law abiding citizen by the FBI, can he say the same ? What assurances do we have that he is not just attempting to make a safe work environment for robbers, thieves and Rapists ?
The second Item that I wish to mention is his insulting references to gun owners and hunters as “fanatics” , “Jethro” and “cowards”. Had he used this type of demeaning and insulting language toward Blacks, Gays, or any other special interest group in America, he and this paper would be facing, at worst, criminal “hate crime” charges, at least civil law suits. If you think I’m kidding I’m sure Don Imus would be happy to set you straight. No other group in America is required to submit to such pejorative language and gun owners will no longer tolerate it either.
Thomas C. Bogan
Laconia NH
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