Drizzt
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Modesto Bee
February 5, 2003, Wednesday, ALL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; Pg. B6
LENGTH: 238 words
HEADLINE: PERSONAL DEFENSE
BODY:
Regarding The Bee's community column by Don Shaw, "Gun control does not mean total gun confiscation" (Jan. 29): His comment that rapid-fire, military-style weapons need to be eliminated from our society is irrelevant because true assault weapons such as machine guns already have been outlawed or tightly controlled in the United States since 1935.
The recent outlawing of military-style weapons in California was done on appearance alone. A self-loading .223-caliber hunting rifle shoots as fast and as far as the AR-15 that was made illegal by Gov. Davis. The only difference is that one of them looks like a military weapon.
Shaw seems ignorant of the Constitution's meaning. The Second Amendment was not written to allow us to target shoot or to hunt Bambi or grizzly bears. It merely acknowledges the God-given, natural right to self-protection from aggressors, criminals or an out-of-control government if it were ever necessary.
Apparently in The Bee's opinion, Shaw's credentials as an English teacher make him an expert on gun control.
I spent 30 years as a California law enforcement officer, with 21 of those 30 years spent as a crime scene investigator. I have personally been to way too many crime scenes where the victims would still be alive today if they had a gun in their hand instead of a telephone when their door was kicked in by their killer.
DANIEL W. CRON Retired sheriff's deputy Modesto
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Too bad he's retired, CA could use more active-duty LE like that...
February 5, 2003, Wednesday, ALL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; Pg. B6
LENGTH: 238 words
HEADLINE: PERSONAL DEFENSE
BODY:
Regarding The Bee's community column by Don Shaw, "Gun control does not mean total gun confiscation" (Jan. 29): His comment that rapid-fire, military-style weapons need to be eliminated from our society is irrelevant because true assault weapons such as machine guns already have been outlawed or tightly controlled in the United States since 1935.
The recent outlawing of military-style weapons in California was done on appearance alone. A self-loading .223-caliber hunting rifle shoots as fast and as far as the AR-15 that was made illegal by Gov. Davis. The only difference is that one of them looks like a military weapon.
Shaw seems ignorant of the Constitution's meaning. The Second Amendment was not written to allow us to target shoot or to hunt Bambi or grizzly bears. It merely acknowledges the God-given, natural right to self-protection from aggressors, criminals or an out-of-control government if it were ever necessary.
Apparently in The Bee's opinion, Shaw's credentials as an English teacher make him an expert on gun control.
I spent 30 years as a California law enforcement officer, with 21 of those 30 years spent as a crime scene investigator. I have personally been to way too many crime scenes where the victims would still be alive today if they had a gun in their hand instead of a telephone when their door was kicked in by their killer.
DANIEL W. CRON Retired sheriff's deputy Modesto
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Too bad he's retired, CA could use more active-duty LE like that...