Letter to the Editor
LETTER: NRA has Turned Into An Extreme Group That Ignores Safety
MacDonald: "What was once an organization focused on gun safety has now become an organization focused on commercial enterprise without regard for the implications of their policies."
Shooting BB guns was a right of passage for a 12 year boy. I couldn't wait to get one, and I remember that Christmas morning when I saw the long, bow-wrapped package standing up against the wall. I eagerly ripped open the package to find the most beautiful wood-grained Daisy BB rifle gun I'd ever seen. My friends and I would set up targets in the yard, which could have been anything from cans, to bottles, to bulls-eyed sheets. My friend's dad (Barry) was an avid gun sportsman. Barry was a hunter who belonged to a gun club where I was introduced to skeet shooting. But, before I even held one of his guns, Barry impressed safety rules on me. We signed up for gun safety classes, which were sponsored by the NRA. There was a definitive tone of …
In this Article:
Windy Wilson
3:31 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Is the NRA the ACLU of the Second Amendment or is the ACLU the NRA of the First Amendment? Both organizations have responsibilities here. One cannot ignore in this politicization of the Sandy Hook tragedy the role of the ACLU in making involuntary committment next to impossible. The "reasonable doubt" standard has no place in mental illness, one cannot prove what will happen beyond a "reasonable … more ›