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Letters to the K C Star 3/12/02 |
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You can always trust the media to side with the gun-control advocates, which I find extremely ironic, considering the fact that my Second Amendment right as a law-abiding private citizen is instrumental in allowing journalists (like The Star's political cartoonist Lee Judge) to exercise their First Amendment rights. Mr. Judge depicts the NRA as the serpent of evil (3/7, Opinion). This is in line with the general media attempt to discredit the position of rightful personal gun ownership. Another tactic used by the liberal left is to portray the NRA as just another rich, self-serving special interest group, but let's compare: The smoking lobby represents rich CEOs in the tobacco industry. The energy lobby represents rich CEOs in the oil industry. The transportation lobby represents rich CEOs in the automotive industry. The NRA is one of the few lobbies that represents a wide and varied cross-section of private citizens throughout the country. They believe the Second Amendment should be taken as literally as it was written. Alan Watkins This is in response to Judge's opinion from March 7 (where the serpant [sic] "NRA" tells Adam and Eve they can't trust the media). Let me see if I've got this straight. The NRA is Satan. Firearms are the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve are the American public. And, let me think ... Oh yeah, the news media are God. That sound's about right. Quite a revealing testimony of what certain ones in the media think of themselves. Brian C. Miller
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