In response to Ms. Daiute’s
letter about how bad guns are, and
how we should not have the right
to own one, I would like to tell her
more facts, since she has twisted
the truth.
Cities such as Chicago and
New York have the strictest gun
laws, yet the highest crime and
murder rates in the world. Crimi-
nals don’t normally try to attack or
commit a crime against someone
who might have a gun to protect
themselves.
The idea of taking guns away
from the law-abiding citizens an-
gers me. It would have my dad,
who happened to carry a ri
le in
Europe during World War II to
protect that right and your right for
free speech.
If he were alive today and
knew the Democrats were trying
to take that right away, murder
unborn babies and make marriage
available to homosexuals, he would
have changed parties, as I have.
Your idea that murders only oc-
curred during the Reagan and Bush
years is idiotic. How many lives
were saved by law-abiding citizens
owning guns during those 30 years
you do not tell us. As far as settlers
dying form their guns, how many
would have died from Indians and
outlaws without having a gun?
Or how many thousands would
have died of starvation without a
gun?
It’s ludicrous that anyone
would think that families traveling
out west would be safer without a
gun.
I have to tell you, Ms. Daiute,
that the No. 1 cause of death for ba-
bies is not guns, but abortion. Lib-
erals are only liberal until someone
disagrees with them.
As far as owning guns, thou-
sands have sacri
iced for our free-
doms, such as our Second Amend-
ment right.
This is where I am pro-choice.
I choose to own a gun. If you do
not, that’s
ine with me.
Dennis Huenergardt
Sweet Home