Dear Editor,
I believe Charity Eleson needs to check her facts before she writes about the Assault Weapons Ban.
In violent crime studies, less than 1-2% of the weapons used were banned firearms. This is not because they were banned, it"™s because people simply don"™t use them in violent crime. I would really like to hear of a crime in which a bayonet attached to a rifle was used. Or when a flash suppressor mounted on an assault weapon made all the difference in a person being shot or not.
Ms. Eleson claims that 1 out of 5 police officers killed in the line of duty are killed by guns on the banned list. That statement is untrue. This figure was put out by the Violence Policy Center, studying a period from 1998-2001. The FBI released information stating that most of those shootings were not with assault weapons.
Please, I urge everyone who read Charity Elleson"™s column to educate themselves on firearms and the issues surrounding them, as there is not enough space to shed light on the untrue facts she has presented. Realize that guns don"™t kill people, people kill people.
There is what I wrote. They edited out my last paragraph except the "Realize that guns don't kill people, people kill." and they took out the comment about flash suppresssors. im glad they took out the flash suppressor part, but i they must not have wanted me to sound too right wing with the last paragraph. Either way, it looked great and i totally shut her down.
Oh, BTW, they even quoted in the headlines at the top of the page. they did this right up at the top of the Opinion page- "I would really like to hear of a crime in which a bayonet attached to a rifle was used, kelly nelson"
WAHOOOOOO feels so good to shut down a libby!! everythign she had in there was straight from teh brady campaign. i just popped in at
the NRA's website and went to the fact sheets to help me with the statistics.
slayer
Published in the paper/AWB
