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AJC Columnist Cynthia Tucker wrote one of her usual misinfo anti gunowner opeds on Oct 13. Following are some pretty good pro gun letters to the editor in today's (Sun AJC)
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Gun regulation
Responses to Cynthia Tucker's column "Gun regulation opponents are the real
crazies,"
@issue, Oct. 13
Ballistic fingerprint can easily be changed
WRITE US
Send a letter to the editor
Cynthia Tucker has shown her ignorance once again by stating, "If every gun
were fired before it was sold and a record kept of the marks it made on
bullets or shell casings, law enforcement agencies would have a registry
that they could use to compare to bullets or casings found at the scene of a
crime."
As anyone who knows anything about firearms knows, the ballistics
"fingerprint" can be changed in a matter of seconds. I can fire one round,
and before anyone can even read the ballistics fingerprint, I can change
that fingerprint on the second round so that it could never be connected to
the first round.
I am not a gun expert or a gun nut. I have been around firearms for more
than 40 years, since I was about 4 years old shooting .22s on the farm and
later using .223s for Uncle Sam.
AL SHELTON
Atlanta
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Banning hunting guns won't help catch sniper
I wondered how long it would be before the liberals weighed in with their
whining about "sniper rifles" and calls for further restrictions on
firearms. Having banned "Saturday Night Specials" (remember them?) and
"assault" rifles, they will now seek the abolition of hunting guns. After
all, that's what this despicable moron in Maryland is doing, isn't he? He's
just "hunting" people instead of culling deer.
The sniper is more likely to be stopped by a law-abiding gun owner than by a
SWAT team. In a situation where average people are being targeted while
going about their everyday activities, the odds are greater that an armed
civilian instead of a dedicated law enforcement officer will bring this
terrorist down. Liberals like Cynthia Tucker and the Brady Bunch need to
stop trying to advance their political agendas on the blood of others.
ROBERT WEBB
Morganton
----
Problem is people, not their weapons
Cynthia Tucker makes strange arguments in her attack on "gun crazies." She
says we don't assess risk properly because we protect against anthrax, which
only killed five, yet we sell guns which killed more than 28,000.
But anthrax will never be a weapon of self-protection. Who would want it to
be . . . it has no stopping power.
When will gun phobics realize the problem is in the human being, not in the
impersonal steel? Heck, cars kill more than 50,000; let's outlaw them and
regulate bicycles.
JOHN STEINER
Marietta
----
Misconceptions fuel opponents' arguments
Cynthia Tucker does not break down the suicides, justifiable shootings or
law enforcement shootings when she cites the number of deaths from guns.
Second, she makes the same mistake of "gun-show loopholes" that do not
exist. Federal firearms dealers at all gun shows are required by law to
perform a check. Another lie the anti-gun establishment uses: Guns are
easily accessible at gun shows to criminals.
Third, she equates vehicle ownership with gun ownership. The two cannot be
compared. Vehicle ownership is a privilege; firearm ownership is a right.
MICHAEL HERNANDEZ
Hernandez is president of the New Mexico Gun Collectors Association.
----
Government registry can go to new level
Here is a logical equivalent to Cynthia Tucker's argument for a government
gun registry.
Attention, all males in Georgia: You are hereby notified to report to your
local county courthouse to provide a sperm sample for storage into a new
government sperm registry.
We have a serious problem with unsolved sex crimes. To assist law
enforcement in solving these cases, we need this database to allow them to
quickly identify the perpetrator of the crime. If you have not committed a
crime, you have nothing to worry about.
Note: If I were a criminal and I knew that my gun's "fingerprint" was on
record, wouldn't I find a round metal file and alter the contours of my
gun's barrel so the markings on the bullet would be altered so as not to
match what was in the registry?
RONALD BARR
Fayetteville
----
Regulation ineffective
Those who think further gun regulation would have prevented the sniper
attacks from occurring are the real crazies. Drugs are illegal -- the
ultimate regulation -- and still tens of thousands die from drug-related
incidents. Driver's licenses are regulated, and more people die in car
accidents than gun-related incidents every year.
Even the air we breathe, water we drink and food we eat are regulated, and
we continue to get sick year after year. Regulation does not prevent
tragedy.
TRACI MOXSON
Atlanta
----
Try profiling instead
Cynthia Tucker is an idiot. A ballistics check can be thwarted by something
as simple as running a file through the barrel a couple of times. A mountain
of work for naught.
If you really want to stop insane/mentally defective people from committing
foolish and hurtful acts, concentrate on detecting who would cause problems,
whether with a weapon or pen.
Wait a minute! Would that be profiling? I wonder how that would play with
Tucker's ilk?
MICHAEL CARTER
Bay Minette, Ala.
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Most owners use their firearms safely
If firearms should be banned because they kill 28,000 people, should tobacco
be banned? What about cars? They kill more than 50,000 people every year.
Tobacco is inherently made to addict and kill. Firearms are meant to protect
and feed. The majority of owners use them safely. Any product used illegally
violates the manufacturers' intent, except those who produce tobacco.
Cynthia Tucker wouldn't be able to determine what is a hunting rifle and
what is used for military use even if it bit her on her heinie. She is just
for gun confiscation, period!
DONALD E. SEGAL
Alpharetta
----
Criminals have shown they won't follow law
Cynthia Tucker writes, "If every gun were fired before it was sold and a
record kept of the marks it made on bullets or shell casings, law
enforcement agencies would have a registry that they could use to compare to
bullets or casings found at the scene of a crime." This is the usual fallacy
of gun control fanatics -- they think criminals are going to be law-abiding
and not change the firing pins or other elements identifying a gun to be
used in a crime which would make such a registry useless.
I don't think so! Criminals, by definition, are the ones who do not obey the
laws and regulations.
CLAY WILLIS
Woodstock
----
No way police can guarantee protection
Cynthia Tucker's column is typical of liberal tactics: "If you can't defend
your position, attack your opponent."
Is it crazy to want to protect one's family and property? I think not.
For Tucker to ask me to give up my Second Amendment right to protect myself
is, although unspoken, the same as asking me to place 100 percent trust in
law enforcement to guarantee my protection.
Also, she failed to mention one important point about the Washington sniper.
At one shooting, a police officer was within close proximity of one of the
victims.
Tell you what, Ms. Tucker: You support a law that guarantees me 100 percent
protection, and that I can sue the police if they fail in that protection,
then you can have my gun. If you ask me, however, either position is crazy.
Till then, my family will be protected by Smith & Wesson four nights per
week; let the would-be attacker choose the night.
JOHN MARTINEZ
Newnan
----
Cynthia Tucker can be excused for her ignorance of gun technology but not
for her misrepresentation of facts. The Washington sniper is not using what
is considered a high-powered rifle, and her attempt to describe its accuracy
and armor capability is false.
Also, a "sniper" rifle is anything used by a sniper. This is a
media-invented term, designed to evoke emotion, just like "assault weapon."
A few other points:
The number presented as killed by firearms in 2000 (28,663) is inflated to
misrepresent the truth. More than half that number are suicides. There is
absolutely no evidence linking suicides to availability of firearms. It also
includes police shootings and self-defense.
The Sept. 11 terrorists used no guns at all.
It is already illegal for Georgians to become "gun runners" (known as a
straw purchase).
Ballistic fingerprinting is worthless for crime solving. The imprints are
easily changed intentionally and/or with normal wear.
|DENNIS PUTNAM
Loganville
The Second Amendment IS our Homeland Security
___________
Gun regulation
Responses to Cynthia Tucker's column "Gun regulation opponents are the real
crazies,"
@issue, Oct. 13
Ballistic fingerprint can easily be changed
WRITE US
Send a letter to the editor
Cynthia Tucker has shown her ignorance once again by stating, "If every gun
were fired before it was sold and a record kept of the marks it made on
bullets or shell casings, law enforcement agencies would have a registry
that they could use to compare to bullets or casings found at the scene of a
crime."
As anyone who knows anything about firearms knows, the ballistics
"fingerprint" can be changed in a matter of seconds. I can fire one round,
and before anyone can even read the ballistics fingerprint, I can change
that fingerprint on the second round so that it could never be connected to
the first round.
I am not a gun expert or a gun nut. I have been around firearms for more
than 40 years, since I was about 4 years old shooting .22s on the farm and
later using .223s for Uncle Sam.
AL SHELTON
Atlanta
----
Banning hunting guns won't help catch sniper
I wondered how long it would be before the liberals weighed in with their
whining about "sniper rifles" and calls for further restrictions on
firearms. Having banned "Saturday Night Specials" (remember them?) and
"assault" rifles, they will now seek the abolition of hunting guns. After
all, that's what this despicable moron in Maryland is doing, isn't he? He's
just "hunting" people instead of culling deer.
The sniper is more likely to be stopped by a law-abiding gun owner than by a
SWAT team. In a situation where average people are being targeted while
going about their everyday activities, the odds are greater that an armed
civilian instead of a dedicated law enforcement officer will bring this
terrorist down. Liberals like Cynthia Tucker and the Brady Bunch need to
stop trying to advance their political agendas on the blood of others.
ROBERT WEBB
Morganton
----
Problem is people, not their weapons
Cynthia Tucker makes strange arguments in her attack on "gun crazies." She
says we don't assess risk properly because we protect against anthrax, which
only killed five, yet we sell guns which killed more than 28,000.
But anthrax will never be a weapon of self-protection. Who would want it to
be . . . it has no stopping power.
When will gun phobics realize the problem is in the human being, not in the
impersonal steel? Heck, cars kill more than 50,000; let's outlaw them and
regulate bicycles.
JOHN STEINER
Marietta
----
Misconceptions fuel opponents' arguments
Cynthia Tucker does not break down the suicides, justifiable shootings or
law enforcement shootings when she cites the number of deaths from guns.
Second, she makes the same mistake of "gun-show loopholes" that do not
exist. Federal firearms dealers at all gun shows are required by law to
perform a check. Another lie the anti-gun establishment uses: Guns are
easily accessible at gun shows to criminals.
Third, she equates vehicle ownership with gun ownership. The two cannot be
compared. Vehicle ownership is a privilege; firearm ownership is a right.
MICHAEL HERNANDEZ
Hernandez is president of the New Mexico Gun Collectors Association.
----
Government registry can go to new level
Here is a logical equivalent to Cynthia Tucker's argument for a government
gun registry.
Attention, all males in Georgia: You are hereby notified to report to your
local county courthouse to provide a sperm sample for storage into a new
government sperm registry.
We have a serious problem with unsolved sex crimes. To assist law
enforcement in solving these cases, we need this database to allow them to
quickly identify the perpetrator of the crime. If you have not committed a
crime, you have nothing to worry about.
Note: If I were a criminal and I knew that my gun's "fingerprint" was on
record, wouldn't I find a round metal file and alter the contours of my
gun's barrel so the markings on the bullet would be altered so as not to
match what was in the registry?
RONALD BARR
Fayetteville
----
Regulation ineffective
Those who think further gun regulation would have prevented the sniper
attacks from occurring are the real crazies. Drugs are illegal -- the
ultimate regulation -- and still tens of thousands die from drug-related
incidents. Driver's licenses are regulated, and more people die in car
accidents than gun-related incidents every year.
Even the air we breathe, water we drink and food we eat are regulated, and
we continue to get sick year after year. Regulation does not prevent
tragedy.
TRACI MOXSON
Atlanta
----
Try profiling instead
Cynthia Tucker is an idiot. A ballistics check can be thwarted by something
as simple as running a file through the barrel a couple of times. A mountain
of work for naught.
If you really want to stop insane/mentally defective people from committing
foolish and hurtful acts, concentrate on detecting who would cause problems,
whether with a weapon or pen.
Wait a minute! Would that be profiling? I wonder how that would play with
Tucker's ilk?
MICHAEL CARTER
Bay Minette, Ala.
----
Most owners use their firearms safely
If firearms should be banned because they kill 28,000 people, should tobacco
be banned? What about cars? They kill more than 50,000 people every year.
Tobacco is inherently made to addict and kill. Firearms are meant to protect
and feed. The majority of owners use them safely. Any product used illegally
violates the manufacturers' intent, except those who produce tobacco.
Cynthia Tucker wouldn't be able to determine what is a hunting rifle and
what is used for military use even if it bit her on her heinie. She is just
for gun confiscation, period!
DONALD E. SEGAL
Alpharetta
----
Criminals have shown they won't follow law
Cynthia Tucker writes, "If every gun were fired before it was sold and a
record kept of the marks it made on bullets or shell casings, law
enforcement agencies would have a registry that they could use to compare to
bullets or casings found at the scene of a crime." This is the usual fallacy
of gun control fanatics -- they think criminals are going to be law-abiding
and not change the firing pins or other elements identifying a gun to be
used in a crime which would make such a registry useless.
I don't think so! Criminals, by definition, are the ones who do not obey the
laws and regulations.
CLAY WILLIS
Woodstock
----
No way police can guarantee protection
Cynthia Tucker's column is typical of liberal tactics: "If you can't defend
your position, attack your opponent."
Is it crazy to want to protect one's family and property? I think not.
For Tucker to ask me to give up my Second Amendment right to protect myself
is, although unspoken, the same as asking me to place 100 percent trust in
law enforcement to guarantee my protection.
Also, she failed to mention one important point about the Washington sniper.
At one shooting, a police officer was within close proximity of one of the
victims.
Tell you what, Ms. Tucker: You support a law that guarantees me 100 percent
protection, and that I can sue the police if they fail in that protection,
then you can have my gun. If you ask me, however, either position is crazy.
Till then, my family will be protected by Smith & Wesson four nights per
week; let the would-be attacker choose the night.
JOHN MARTINEZ
Newnan
----
Cynthia Tucker can be excused for her ignorance of gun technology but not
for her misrepresentation of facts. The Washington sniper is not using what
is considered a high-powered rifle, and her attempt to describe its accuracy
and armor capability is false.
Also, a "sniper" rifle is anything used by a sniper. This is a
media-invented term, designed to evoke emotion, just like "assault weapon."
A few other points:
The number presented as killed by firearms in 2000 (28,663) is inflated to
misrepresent the truth. More than half that number are suicides. There is
absolutely no evidence linking suicides to availability of firearms. It also
includes police shootings and self-defense.
The Sept. 11 terrorists used no guns at all.
It is already illegal for Georgians to become "gun runners" (known as a
straw purchase).
Ballistic fingerprinting is worthless for crime solving. The imprints are
easily changed intentionally and/or with normal wear.
|DENNIS PUTNAM
Loganville
The Second Amendment IS our Homeland Security