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Guns: Shooting Straight
Today's touché comes from a reader who raises a question about guns.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League recently handed out stickers at the Richmond Coliseum prior to an appearance by talk-show sensation Glenn Beck; "Guns Save Lives," the stickers read. Coliseum personnel asked the VCDLers to stop handing them out -- an affront to the First Amendment if ever there was one.
We support the Second Amendment as much as we do the First. We cheered the Supreme Court's ruling in Heller upholding an individual right to bear arms. We agree that guns cause crime to the same degree that flies cause garbage. But -- like the reader -- we wonder how well the notion that "guns save lives" squares with that other well-known gun-rights motto: "Guns don't kill, people do."
Guns: Shooting Straight
Today's touché comes from a reader who raises a question about guns.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League recently handed out stickers at the Richmond Coliseum prior to an appearance by talk-show sensation Glenn Beck; "Guns Save Lives," the stickers read. Coliseum personnel asked the VCDLers to stop handing them out -- an affront to the First Amendment if ever there was one.
We support the Second Amendment as much as we do the First. We cheered the Supreme Court's ruling in Heller upholding an individual right to bear arms. We agree that guns cause crime to the same degree that flies cause garbage. But -- like the reader -- we wonder how well the notion that "guns save lives" squares with that other well-known gun-rights motto: "Guns don't kill, people do."