LTE: At least editor was honest when he admitted his liberal anti-gun bias

The following letter was submitted in response to an editorial criticizing gun-rights advocate Reginald Jones, who delivered an address to Ohio University students in Athens that explained how gun control laws were founded in racism.

February 17, 2005
Athens News

Mr. Smith, in response to your editorial last Thursday about the "goober who spoke at OU," I just have a few things to say. In the article you admit to being a "card-carrying member of the liberal media." Well, you'll get no objections from me on that statement.

Whether you realize it or not, you displayed some of the common bias traits associated with the liberal media.

For example, you wrote on a subject that you have no background in and on a presentation that you didn't even attend (I know, I was there).

You chose which parts of the speech you wanted to talk about and conveniently left out all the examples Mr. Jones used to explain his premise that gun control is racist.

Mr. Jones cited some of the world's biggest supporters of gun control -- Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, etc.

These men have led the most oppressive and racist regimes in history, and they couldn't have done it without first disarming the people. That was one of Mr. Jones' main points, that to oppress someone you must first render him incapable of defending himself.

You also used a few tried-and-true tactics that the media always like to use when confronted with a challenging foe. You tried to assassinate Mr. Jones' character in order to make him seem unqualified (he was more than qualified to speak on racism and the Second Amendment), and you made light of the subject because you know the liberal point of view just doesn't work (look at violent crime rates in England or Australia).

Overall Mr. Smith, I found your editorial to be generally lacking in content and more the whining of someone who was mad nobody found anything wrong with a black man talking about guns. I'm afraid that's why I had to "blast the stupid stuff right out of the solar system."

Jordan Carr
Athens