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From the VCDL - How to Write a Letter to the Editor

Post by Marie » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:27 am

Most of you who get the VCDL Newsletter have seen this. If you don't get the newsletter, you might want to subscribe. He's responding to a letter that was in his local paper, pro-gun but apparently not exactly right. Good Read!
n reference to item #4 above, THIS is how it should be done:

http://tinyurl.com/bsrt6

Virginians have every right to carry firearms
November 23, 2005 12:50 am
Dave Knight

Lawfully carried firearms are like insurance, not just for the person
who chooses to carry, but for everyone around them, in the case of an
emergency, as happens all too often these days (kidnappings, rapes and
other violent predations) ["Have a gun? Fine, but stay out of public
parks!" Nov. 16].

Prohibitions against alcohol and glass containers do not diminish
safety in parks, as they do not encourage violent criminals to seek
victims therein.

A firearm ban will only prevent law-abiding folks from carrying a gun;
it will not prevent violent criminals from doing so, as they have
already decided to commit crimes more serious than violating some
silly gun ban.

Criminals do not care about "laws"--that's what makes them criminals.
In general, gun bans are like free health insurance for violent
criminals.

Criminals fear armed victims far more than they fear the police.
Prohibitions of lawfully carried firearms encourage violent criminals
to seek victims in the "self-defense-free criminal-safety zones" such
bans create.

If letter-writer Manuel Cizek does not want to take responsibility for
protecting himself and his family, that is his choice, but how dare he
suggest that his irrational fear of lawfully armed citizens should be
a reason to prohibit others from accepting that responsibility.

Aside from that, Virginia's statewide pre-emption statute prohibits
localities from enacting firearm laws or regulations more restrictive
than state law. Imposing a "gun ban" in a public park would violate
that state law.

Dave Knight
Radford

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