Business Week Glock Story Followup

[parsimonious_instead]

Last week's issue of Bloomberg Businessweek featured a Glock on the cover, calling it the "Killing Machine."
I was incensed by the anti-gun bias of the story, and immediately wrote a letter to their editor. (A prior story from just over a year ago in that same magazine far more cooly dissected Glock as both a company and an appealing enthusiast product).
Mine was chosen for publication in this week's print edition of the magazine. (Cover is red, lead story is "Apple Without Jobs").
I surveyed the other printed letters, and I'd say that they were 60% "Pro Gun/Pro Glock" and 40% "Anti" but not totally against firearm ownership - just against so-called "assault weapons" and hi-cap mags.

 

[wally]

Anti" but not totally against firearm ownership - just against so-called "assault weapons" and hi-cap mags

Once they have this other ban attempts will soon follow. It's called taking what you think you might get.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

BTW, I'm in no way endorsing that position. I just thought it was interesting that none of the responding letter-writers called for totally taking firearms out of the hands of non-LEO and military.

 

[sig228]

feedback link, fwiw:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_05/c4213feedback534517.htm

 

[Larry E]

There was a letter to the editor in today's paper here from an MD in Bozeman who wanted civilians limited to handguns appropriate for hunting, and rifles and shotguns capable of holding no more than two "bullets". :banghead: Obviously a well informed lad who believed that banning guns would reduce deaths and violent crimes. He even spoke highly of England's reduced gun deaths after they banned most handguns which may be true although the overall level of violent crime increased.

A letter to the editor from me is going out soon. I will, uh, strongly disagree with him.

 

[therewolf]

The part about all these anti-gun stories which you DON'T hear about, OP,

is that after all the braying and blathering about the "evil of handguns" and

"we must have limits" etc,etc the criminal involved in these crimes is usually

put right back on the streets to search for yet another illegal handgun.

Here's an idea: LET'S PUNISH CRIMINALS FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, SHALL WE?

 

[gym]

I must now read the article and respond in a manner befitting the topic. I think that unless the Mayor is going to gaurantee the safety of every person in the City, he should keep his prejedus to himself. If I had a half dozen cops following me everyware I went, I wouldn't be worried either.

 

[pikid89]

Restraining the use of handheld firearms, especially those classified as assault weapons or those that can carry more than eight or nine rounds of ammunition, must be controlled in such a way that the carrier cannot readily kill someone in less than 15 seconds, during which time reason should take over and the rage subside.

im not even sure of what to think of this twisted and distorted logic that some guy posted on the bloomberg link above