LTE: Twisting facts and data to shore up anti-gun bias

April 6, 2005
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Karen Tucker's March 30 letter "Fewer guns in fewer hands - not the opposite" was so void of the truth that I had to respond. Tucker complains about Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris wanting felons to own guns. Apparently, she did not read his whole article (March 22). Morris was referring to nonviolent offenders who have since been law-abiding.

Tucker's reference to the ease with which assault weapons allow perpetrators to commit murder on a large scale is false, since "assault weapons" pose no more danger than any semiautomatic firearm. She also claims that gun manufacturers have immunity to safety regulations, which is also false; they adhere to the same regulations that govern any U.S. product. Tucker refers to almost 30,000 gun deaths and leaves out the fact that those include police shootings and suicides. She doesn't mention the more than 1 million times a year that law-abiding citizens defend themselves with a firearm.

She has the same, old, tired anti-gun argument.

Anthony Romano
Euclid