Pro-Gun letter published in the newspaper

[melensdad]

Remember the thread about the college president who wanted to stop and illegally search vehicles? Here is a reply, published in the Sunday edition of THE TIMES newspaper.

Rittenmeyer's thesis deserves an 'F' grade / nwi.com

A recent column suggested roadblocks to search for illegal guns.

Writer Dennis Rittenmeyer started out with a false claim. He stated, "Our worsening problem of gun violence requires creative and extraordinary action." The reality is that violent crime is going down while the rate of private gun ownership is going up.

Further, much of the driving force in increasing gun ownership is because more people are now carrying guns. And as states pass laws to make it possible for citizens to carry guns the crime rates go down faster.

Rittenmeyer is a college president who apparently holds himself to a standard of truth lower than the standard his students are held to. He proposes a solution that violates at least two of our constitutional amendments and bases the need for his solution on a false statement.

Look at violence. It largely occurs in neighborhoods were families are broken and where fathers are absent. Why not focus on the root causes and work to fix the families, to instill responsibility in boys who are becoming fathers at too young an age? Broken families and lost values are where the problem of violence began.

Where families do not exist, gangs replace the structure of the family.

I'd suggest that if Rittenmeyer turned his "thesis" into a college professor who understood gun laws and violence, he would have gotten an "F."

Bob Skurka, Lowell

Let's pile on to the college president again and leave a bunch of comments in support of this letter!

[JcJ]

[Dogman]

[SilentWarrior1]

I posted the following:

This is right on the money. If you want to permanently fix the problem, start at the base. Morals and Values once held in high regard in this country are all but present in the inner cities and children with inept parents. We need to teach our children what it means to be responsible and morally straight. Only then, can we begin to see the problems of violence and crime begin to cease. WE CAN NOT PLACE THE BLAME OF OUR UNDERLYING ISSUES ON INANIMATE OBJECTS. THE PROBLEM LIES WITHIN THE THOUGHT PROCESSES AND LACK OF MORALS OF THE PEOPLE COMMITTING SUCH ATROCITIES.
So, how do we fix this problem?
Our job as a nation is to be responsible parents, not being friends to our children. We can START there.
Stop being so nice and sparing the rod. Punish harshly and to the full extent of the law. Maybe they'll think twice after that.
Stop making new rules, just enforce the old ones tooth and nail.
We've become a society who's more concerned about what other people think and being more "politically correct" instead of being forthright.
Let's fix it Together.

[nofear]

Nice to see that someone else out side of our little forum reads those things ;-)