Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Great guns ! Oops ...

Mr. Boylan, you started out great: Some good news on guns in the paper [The Citizen, Jan. 14]. Then as I read on, things changed and I will have to disagree with the article.

You do not have to be an NRA member to enjoy guns or their use. And, thank God, that they are there to help defend against people and governments who are trying to take away my rights as a law-abiding citizen.

If you did any research on “Bowling for Columbine,” you would know that it was made up of all misleading “facts.”

There is more to guns then going to the range, feeling good that you hit the target, and the big bang. Gun are used for protection. Just ask any police officer would he be on the job if he couldn’t have a gun. Plus the enjoyment of trying to master a gun so that you can put hole in a one-inch circle, plus use in hunting.

There won’t be another senseless gun tragedy if people and kids were taught gun safety and the use of same.

For me I won’t give up my guns as there are too many people in the world that do harm to other people. Just ask the Jews from World War II, and, if you could, the father and son who were just killed in Georgia a couple of days ago.

[The 9/11 terror attacks] wouldn’t have happened if there had been law-abiding citizens on board with guns, or the pilots had been armed.

I would like to see more on the good that guns do everyday that we do not hear about.

John G. Hill

Fayetteville, Ga.