
This was a letter to the editor we got about a column by writer Derrick Skaug where he gave his views on why Washington should ban assault rifles. He said hunters don’t need fully automatic carbine rifles and that they have the potential to bring great misery when they fall into the hands of would-be mass murders like Maj. Hasaan, the Fort Hood shooter.
“Re your posting on the necessity of a gun . .
Kudos to your reporter Derrick Skaug . . for his reasoned posting . .
However, in Canada, the country I supported 10 years in the military
and 30 years municipally, we have a gun fear, stoked by hand-wringing
females and those poet-driven Phd’s, that guns are more dangerous
than a pit bull . .
This hoplophobic fear has grown with every shooting where citizens are
killed by gang -bangers.
A knife killing? Below the radar . . . But . . guns . .
Yes, when a firearm IS used legally, properly, the media closes ranks
and puts the incident on IGNORE . . big time . .
The legal, proper use of a gun goes by the sidelines, and the perp
is given the leniency largesse Canada is famous for . . a reduced sentence . .
Criminal Code: Life imprisonment . . for armed robbery with a gun
The courts ? . . Four years . . anything wrong with this picture ? . .
What’s wrong . . I submit IS the attitude of our judges, they are NOT
our judges . . anymore, ( if they ever were ) . .
Judges express a dim view of crime . . that is to say they can barely see it . .”
Due to the creative punctuation and the fact that we couldn’t tell if it is a poem or not we decided to post it this blog.