February 23, 2018 at 6:17 p.m.
Lies make real debate impossible
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
I always welcome honest debate on gun control, but the gun banners know they can’t win with the truth.
They invented “Assault Weapon” to scare people into banning guns. For a year, Chucky Schumer and Joe Biden called for banning semi-auto AK’s while the fake news networks ran video of machine guns in the background.
When the bill passed, so many had been imported that the market was glutted, prices slashed and 10 years later you could still buy one in any gun store cheaper than in 1992. But the minute it passed there were no more mass murders with “assault weapons” for 10 years because the press stopped glorifying them.
The AR is the most popular rifle in America because it is an excellent, ergonomic and customizable hunting, competition and defense firearm all in one. The evil pistol grip and adjustable stock that define “Assault Weapon” do nothing more than make the gun more comfortable to shoot.
As written, Hillary Clinton’s 2005 senate bill would have banned the manufacture, sale and inheritance of virtually every semi-auto rifle and shotgun ever made, banned a majority of the most popular semi-auto defense handguns and even banned some Smith and Wesson revolvers. You could not even leave your Rugar 10-22 or your Remington 1100 to your son or daughter.
There are less than 300 murders a year with rifles of all kinds, but as long as the press and gun haters glorify the AR to deranged killers they will be in the news.
The newest Feinstein bill is a joke. The AR is banned but the Ruger Mini-14, which also meets her definition of “Assault Weapon” is given an exemption. Both look like military machine guns. Both fire the same cartridge. Both fire just as fast. Both meet Diane Feinstein’s definition of a pistol grip and a barrel shroud. And I even have a 30-round magazine that is interchangeable between both guns. But one is good and one is bad based on looks alone.
Even JR has been fooled by anti-gun misinformation. In a December editorial, he told us that expanded background checks didn’t pass because of the “Second Amendment absolutism of the National Rifle Association.” He was wrong. It did not pass because anti-gun zealot and Democrat minority leader in the Senate Chucky Schumer refused to remove federal gun owner registration from the only bill available until the day before the vote.
As a result, despite a majority of the public and gun owners favoring expanding background checks, calls, letters and emails ran 90 percent against the bill. It was then voted down by a Democrat-controlled Senate. A so-called compromise bill was made available the day before the vote but it was so full of legalese it would have taken a team of lawyers a month to figure out what was actually in it. It was also voted down.
Now politicians on both sides of the aisle are afraid to touch the issue and gun owners oppose it because in their minds it is totally tied to gun owner registration.
There will be no progress on “gun safety” as long as the anti-gun zealots insist on lying about the issue and keep producing legislation with garbage included in it that makes a lie of the words “reasonable gun control.”
Stephen Erwin
Portland
I always welcome honest debate on gun control, but the gun banners know they can’t win with the truth.
They invented “Assault Weapon” to scare people into banning guns. For a year, Chucky Schumer and Joe Biden called for banning semi-auto AK’s while the fake news networks ran video of machine guns in the background.
When the bill passed, so many had been imported that the market was glutted, prices slashed and 10 years later you could still buy one in any gun store cheaper than in 1992. But the minute it passed there were no more mass murders with “assault weapons” for 10 years because the press stopped glorifying them.
The AR is the most popular rifle in America because it is an excellent, ergonomic and customizable hunting, competition and defense firearm all in one. The evil pistol grip and adjustable stock that define “Assault Weapon” do nothing more than make the gun more comfortable to shoot.
As written, Hillary Clinton’s 2005 senate bill would have banned the manufacture, sale and inheritance of virtually every semi-auto rifle and shotgun ever made, banned a majority of the most popular semi-auto defense handguns and even banned some Smith and Wesson revolvers. You could not even leave your Rugar 10-22 or your Remington 1100 to your son or daughter.
There are less than 300 murders a year with rifles of all kinds, but as long as the press and gun haters glorify the AR to deranged killers they will be in the news.
The newest Feinstein bill is a joke. The AR is banned but the Ruger Mini-14, which also meets her definition of “Assault Weapon” is given an exemption. Both look like military machine guns. Both fire the same cartridge. Both fire just as fast. Both meet Diane Feinstein’s definition of a pistol grip and a barrel shroud. And I even have a 30-round magazine that is interchangeable between both guns. But one is good and one is bad based on looks alone.
Even JR has been fooled by anti-gun misinformation. In a December editorial, he told us that expanded background checks didn’t pass because of the “Second Amendment absolutism of the National Rifle Association.” He was wrong. It did not pass because anti-gun zealot and Democrat minority leader in the Senate Chucky Schumer refused to remove federal gun owner registration from the only bill available until the day before the vote.
As a result, despite a majority of the public and gun owners favoring expanding background checks, calls, letters and emails ran 90 percent against the bill. It was then voted down by a Democrat-controlled Senate. A so-called compromise bill was made available the day before the vote but it was so full of legalese it would have taken a team of lawyers a month to figure out what was actually in it. It was also voted down.
Now politicians on both sides of the aisle are afraid to touch the issue and gun owners oppose it because in their minds it is totally tied to gun owner registration.
There will be no progress on “gun safety” as long as the anti-gun zealots insist on lying about the issue and keep producing legislation with garbage included in it that makes a lie of the words “reasonable gun control.”
Stephen Erwin
Portland
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