Anti-gun stance irrational

Published: Tuesday, Dec. 30 2003 12:00 a.m. MST

Summary

After reading your editorial "Gun toters: Leave the building" it's obvious your editors, not our legislators, need a reality check. Your blatantly one-sided labeling of handguns as "killing machines" totally disregards the reality that firearms save countless more lives each year than they take.

After reading your editorial "Gun toters: Leave the building" (Dec. 27) it's obvious your editors, not our legislators, need a reality check. Your blatantly one-sided labeling of handguns as "killing machines" totally disregards the reality that firearms save countless more lives each year than they take. If one myopically fails to recognize utility and only focuses on the negative, one could label just about anything a "killing machine." Neurotics illogically consider doctors, nurses, hospitals, automobiles, police officers and people with AIDS as "killing machines."

You accuse concealed-weapon permit holders of fantasizing about mass killers and terrorists preying upon good people rendered helpless by the establishment of "gun free" zones. Are our recollections of the killings at the "gun free" Church History Library, the "gun free" Triad Center and the "gun free" Woodward Baptist Church delusional?

Your editorial staff's irrational fear of guns and gun owners has finally reached the "clinical" point. Get some therapy and maybe it will help you get back in touch with reality.

James D. "Mitch" Vilos

Centerville

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