HankT
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How many logical fallacies or errorscan you find in this LTE?
The Modesto Bee
His 'baby' no good for self-defense
last updated: August 01, 2007 06:48:31 AM
In response to Michelle Malkin ("Mocking gun owners puts Demos at risk," July 26, Page B-7): Though it is quite clear that your first and foremost desire is to trash all Democrats and liberals, your lack of knowledge about guns is showing.
The AR-15 and other assault rifle-type weapons are extremely poor self-defense weapons, for their primary function is to shoot long distances with great penetrating power.
A good self-defense weapon doesn't need a long range. If you're shooting at someone 100 yards away, it's probably not really self-defense, and a bullet that can puncture thick walls poses a danger to innocent people in adjoining rooms or buildings.
Anyone who would hold up an AR-15 and call it his "baby' has psychosexual problems that should be treated with medical help, not the infusion of more weapons.
Democrats aren't against all guns; we just don't want some unstable, untrained and unsupervised clown having access to more powerful weaponry than the average law enforcement officer.
As a conservative, I would think that their safety would be your primary concern, not the right of some nimrod to own a weapon as poorly suited to self-defense as a Tomahawk missile.
GARY McNETT
Modesto
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/30982.html
How many logical fallacies or errorscan you find in this LTE?
The Modesto Bee
His 'baby' no good for self-defense
last updated: August 01, 2007 06:48:31 AM
In response to Michelle Malkin ("Mocking gun owners puts Demos at risk," July 26, Page B-7): Though it is quite clear that your first and foremost desire is to trash all Democrats and liberals, your lack of knowledge about guns is showing.
The AR-15 and other assault rifle-type weapons are extremely poor self-defense weapons, for their primary function is to shoot long distances with great penetrating power.
A good self-defense weapon doesn't need a long range. If you're shooting at someone 100 yards away, it's probably not really self-defense, and a bullet that can puncture thick walls poses a danger to innocent people in adjoining rooms or buildings.
Anyone who would hold up an AR-15 and call it his "baby' has psychosexual problems that should be treated with medical help, not the infusion of more weapons.
Democrats aren't against all guns; we just don't want some unstable, untrained and unsupervised clown having access to more powerful weaponry than the average law enforcement officer.
As a conservative, I would think that their safety would be your primary concern, not the right of some nimrod to own a weapon as poorly suited to self-defense as a Tomahawk missile.
GARY McNETT
Modesto
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/30982.html