Colorado residents re Illinois tragedy (Not a duplicate thread)

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I have caused the e-mail quoted below to be sent to my favorite news personalities at Channel 2 in Denver.

Channel 2's news personalities are as follows:

Angie Austin
Ernie Bjorkman
Jason Boyer
Colin Campbell
Ginger Delgado
Dave Fraser
Mat Garcia
Tom Green
Lisa Holbrook
Kellie MacMullan
Laura Main
Zubin Mehenti
Greg Nieto
Chris Parente
Sunny Roseman
Marc Soicher
Eli Stokols
Jann Tracey
Natalie Tysdal
Vida Urbonas
Dave Young

The pattern for their e-dresses is (first intitial), (no blank), (last name spelled out), "@", (cw2.com), as below:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Good morning!

One aspect of the shooting in Illinois has so far been completely ignored by news outlets. It involves the outrage expressed by the community of law-abiding firearms owners.

Their anger is due to the fact that the solution to these rampages is simple: allow concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding citizens, including students.

In every one of these unfortunate recent cases, one or two armed citizens in the group of otherwise unarmed targets could have ended the situation immediately.

Those nut jobs are cowards, and only one or two rounds in their direction would have ended the slaughter.

As an example of this very newsworthy and significant outrage, and for a different viewpoint on how to stop these incidents, you can look at

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=339783

The nitty-gritty of this thread (starting along about page two) is that they are in almost 100% agreement that the politically correct solution to these incidents at gun-free unarmed victim killing zones at colleges, etc., is useless, and that the realistic solution is to allow Concealed Weapons Licensees to carry their firearms on campus.

The home page of this e-community of law-abiding firearms owners is

http://thehighroad.org

For your interest, reference is made therein to an "empty holster day" in April, similar to the one you reported on last October.

I thank you for your consideration of these politically-incorrect thoughts as a news item.

(sig) T.A.T
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It would behoove us in Colorado to contact our favorite news crews in the same vein.

I would hope others of the THR community would do the same in their States.

That is all I had time to do this morning.

Admins, Mods: It would be nice to have a ready reference on THR for e-dresses of news personalities in all states.
 
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I like the message, I would just, personally, be a little more careful with the informal/formal balance of your language when dealing with the media. It's really just a suggestion, honestly.

"Those nut jobs are cowards, and only one or two rounds in their direction would have ended the slaughter."

I might have said:
"These criminals are cowardly, and unbiased studies on the topic of carrying concealed weapons show that knowing a population may be armed, in fact, hinders such random acts of violence in the first place. If the concept of an armed society being a polite society fails, however, students should be able to use their right to defend themselves in a life or death situation, regardless of where they are."

A situation where nobody dies (i.e. polite society) due to fiream use is, in my opinion, the best message that RKBA-ites can put forth. Although unrealistic and unfounded, many people, because of the media, believe that we are Rambo-esque self-police who want the blood of the unjust (granted, exaggerated). They need to see RKBA as a form of resistance from tyranny, instead of mere legal gun totin'. Carefully avoiding any perpetuation of this is my suggestion, even if it means saying things in a way that you can MAKE SURE that your words can't be taken the wrong way.

Thanks for taking the initiative brother,
MDeViney
 
Me said,

"Those nut jobs are cowards, and only one or two rounds in their direction would have ended the slaughter."

MDeViney :

You're 100% right about that being a mix of formal and informal. I could've said it better.

Good editing catch! Thanks!
 
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