Feb 26

Written by: Spud
2/26/2008 6:44 PM

Thomas Verstraete wrote:

Spud,

 

I agree that all rational people should have the option to have guns. Now if you can guarantee that there are only rational people in the world then guns should not be prohibited. But since you can make that claim there should be limits and controls. I think that we should stop complaining about how the gun owner is oppressed and work on the real problem of the people that have the guns that kill people. Then there won't be any "namby pamby news writers" denouncing guns. If there is no one killing people with guns then guns wont be a problem, but since guns are killing people then they are a problem.

 

 

Thomas Verstraete

 

 

Thomas,

 

Thanks for your calm and well thought-out response to my on-air comments today.

 

Now I'll tell you why you're exactly wrong on this issue.

 

Many, many, MANY things kill people everyday in far greater numbers than Constitutionally protected fire-arms do, and yet you don't see them as a "problem".  Why not?

 

Ovens, automobiles, knives, neckties, rope, gasoline, abandoned refrigerators, prescription pain killers, machetes, baseball bats. . . you know I could go on for days listing them here.

 

So the Thomas Verstraete plan is to ban all dangerous things?  Would you start with cars? Good luck.

 

Humans are killing other humans all over the world, and they always will Thomas.

 

Quit obsessing about one minor method.

 

In fact, if you don't like guns, don't buy one.  But trying to take mine away because you think they're "dangerous" is the very definition of un-American.  It's a betrayal of the very principles that founded this great nation.

 

Thanks for listening,

 

Spud

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