[Rugerlvr]

This letter to the SL Trib is ridiculous, as are the posters who follow. Rate down the letter if you will, and feel free to register, and refute the BS the antis are spouting.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_8800591

[Harley Quinn]

The founders and guns
Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 04/03/2008 06:10:53 PM MDT


Our founding fathers created many laws based on common decency and common sense. So let's set aside the mountain of evidence that proves promiscuous gun laws produce a dangerous and violent America, and simply address the gun issue by applying common decency and common sense.
We have created a society where handguns are as common as Coca-Cola, where thousands wander the streets with concealed weapons willing to shoot to kill and committed to shoot first and ask questions later, where bullets that explode on contact and literally blow up the victim are legal, and where assault weapons capable of killing an entire platoon are readily available.
Can anyone in their wildest imagination believe that the founding fathers had this decadence in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment? Were they willing to sacrifice the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of countless thousands of victims for the unlimited right to bear arms for a small number who disdain the discipline of a militia (National Guard)?
What is there to debate? Common decency and common sense demand the right to control deadly weapons.

Ron Molen
Salt Lake City

[MarcusWendt]

I wrote a reply, rated it with a thumbs down and then read every single reply and rated those. What a bunch if uneducated kooks.

[brighamr]

But I thought Utah was one of the most pro-gun states? lol j/k it actually is except for "a small number who disdain the discipline of" understanding history.

[alaskanativeson]

Brigham is generally right, Utah is still a pretty gun-friendly place. Of course over the last decade + they have been picking up many California escapees, some of whom are good people wanting a better lifestyle. Unfortunately, there are also some who are trying to export the things that have turned California into Kalifornia.

[Winchester 73]

Ron Molen needs a lot of help.
I doubt if anything THR or medical science can provide, will do him much good.
Also suggust the Tribune's name be changed to the SLC Tribunal.
And,this goofy letter needs more exposure.Can it be moved to General Gun Discussions?

[GearHead_1]

I registered and tried to post but it wouldn't recognize me as being logged in even though it showed that I was.

[mljdeckard]

Utah in many ways is possibly the most conservative state. (It is the only state where Bill Clinton ever came in third.) Some of the non-conservative population have kind if gone rabid as a response, pushing harder and louder than they probably would if they didn't feel surrounded by an exclusive ethnic/religious group. In Salt Lake City in particular, they have gone so far as to re-elect a mayor who is 100% batS#^% crazy, just because they would rather live with him than 'give in' to the majority that runs the rest of the state.

I can still carry on the U of U campus, into Chili's, and to pick up my kids from school.