Thundar
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I just about fell over when I saw the opinion page of the Virginian Pilot on Saturday. (The editorial staff there is no friend to the 2A). There seemed to be some effort at balance in the Letters to the Editor. There were two letters. One was the typical unlicensed dealers, etc and the other was obviously from a 2A supporter. The subject line for these two letters was not gun show loophole it was Background Checks.
Perhaps some of the bLetters to the Editor (Blog comments posted in the Pilot Online) have had an impact. - Neither Centreville nor Fairfax where the two bLetters originated from is in the Virginian Pilot delivery zone.
The difference in size between the titles of the two letter is not my typo, the difference in size was as printed on the Opinion Page.
The letters:
Don't muzzle gun issue
RE 'KAINE WANTS END TO LOOPHOLE on gun sales' (Hampton Roads, Nov. 28):
State House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith said that to avoid another Virginia Tech, we should focus on mental health rather than guns because to focus on guns would be 'taking away rights from law-abiding citizens.'
Proposing background checks for unlicensed dealers does not take away the rights of law-abiding citizens. It ensures that the individual purchasing a weapon is indeed a law-abiding citizen. And it protects society by denying those who would do harm from avoiding a background check by purchasing through unlicensed dealers.
Lawful gun owners already undergo background checks from federally licensed dealers. Why shouldn't gun buyers also have background checks from unlicensed dealers?
What most concerns me is this desire by many to focus the attention away from guns and only look to mental health.
The tragedy at Virginia Tech was the result of a complex set of factors and we should look at all of them: mental health, privacy laws, campus safety and security and yes, guns.
Without two guns and high-capacity magazines, Seung-Hui Cho could not have inflicted the damage that he did.
To deflect the debate from guns is to ignore one of the major reasons that 32 beautiful, talented individuals died that fateful day.
We owe it to the victims and to their families to do everything we can to prevent another tragedy. And that means to look at all the issues, including guns.
[align=right]Lu Ann McNabb[/align]
[align=right]Centreville[/align]
The wrong solution
There they go again! Anti-gun advocates are attempting to use the Virginia Tech rampage as an excuse to impose more gun control in the commonwealth.
Seung-Hui Cho was able to purchase two firearms on separate occasions because the state criminal/mental records check system was not accurate and complete.
Yet Gov. Tim Kaine and former state police Superintendent Gerry Massengill are now attempting to distract attention from that problem by targeting gun shows, which were not a source of either firearm purchased and misused by Cho in April.
There is no relevance between the real problem and their proposed solution. They should be ashamed for pushing for such an irrelevant scheme rather than focusing on needed mental health reform.
[align=right]Charles H. Cunningham[/align]
[align=right]Fairfax[/align]
I just about fell over when I saw the opinion page of the Virginian Pilot on Saturday. (The editorial staff there is no friend to the 2A). There seemed to be some effort at balance in the Letters to the Editor. There were two letters. One was the typical unlicensed dealers, etc and the other was obviously from a 2A supporter. The subject line for these two letters was not gun show loophole it was Background Checks.
Perhaps some of the bLetters to the Editor (Blog comments posted in the Pilot Online) have had an impact. - Neither Centreville nor Fairfax where the two bLetters originated from is in the Virginian Pilot delivery zone.
The difference in size between the titles of the two letter is not my typo, the difference in size was as printed on the Opinion Page.
The letters:
Don't muzzle gun issue
RE 'KAINE WANTS END TO LOOPHOLE on gun sales' (Hampton Roads, Nov. 28):
State House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith said that to avoid another Virginia Tech, we should focus on mental health rather than guns because to focus on guns would be 'taking away rights from law-abiding citizens.'
Proposing background checks for unlicensed dealers does not take away the rights of law-abiding citizens. It ensures that the individual purchasing a weapon is indeed a law-abiding citizen. And it protects society by denying those who would do harm from avoiding a background check by purchasing through unlicensed dealers.
Lawful gun owners already undergo background checks from federally licensed dealers. Why shouldn't gun buyers also have background checks from unlicensed dealers?
What most concerns me is this desire by many to focus the attention away from guns and only look to mental health.
The tragedy at Virginia Tech was the result of a complex set of factors and we should look at all of them: mental health, privacy laws, campus safety and security and yes, guns.
Without two guns and high-capacity magazines, Seung-Hui Cho could not have inflicted the damage that he did.
To deflect the debate from guns is to ignore one of the major reasons that 32 beautiful, talented individuals died that fateful day.
We owe it to the victims and to their families to do everything we can to prevent another tragedy. And that means to look at all the issues, including guns.
[align=right]Lu Ann McNabb[/align]
[align=right]Centreville[/align]
The wrong solution
There they go again! Anti-gun advocates are attempting to use the Virginia Tech rampage as an excuse to impose more gun control in the commonwealth.
Seung-Hui Cho was able to purchase two firearms on separate occasions because the state criminal/mental records check system was not accurate and complete.
Yet Gov. Tim Kaine and former state police Superintendent Gerry Massengill are now attempting to distract attention from that problem by targeting gun shows, which were not a source of either firearm purchased and misused by Cho in April.
There is no relevance between the real problem and their proposed solution. They should be ashamed for pushing for such an irrelevant scheme rather than focusing on needed mental health reform.
[align=right]Charles H. Cunningham[/align]
[align=right]Fairfax[/align]
