Gun laws

A few days ago, Highlands Today ran a letter from Joe Alviano, taking Ron Carmony to the woodshed for what I assume to be making a statement comparing the United States and Hitler's Germany. Then he asks to let him know of any world leader that did not promise hope and change.

This prompted me to run to the ol' locker box to find an old newspaper that carried the following quote. "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future:" Adolph Hitler, 1935.

Alviano goes on about gun laws and references a Web site that claims that the U.S.A. is No. 1 in gun deaths.

Not so, Joe; far from it. With all the drug wars and gang killings down there, I'd bet Mexico would be on top. One thing about statistics is that they can be manipulated in any way to give you the result you are looking for. Matter of fact, there are more deaths caused by incompetent doctors annually in the U.S. than from firearms. Maybe we should consider banning them.

Here's a statistic you can take to the bank, "64,994,798 gun owners killed no one yesterday."

Reid and Pelosi recently put their pea brains together and tried to push through a 500 percent tax on ammunition. Pelosi also wanted manufacturers to produce "coded" ammunition; coded? It isn't hard to figure out what the gun control nuts are doing. They can't get rid of the guns, so they will make the ammunition disappear or so very expensive you can't afford it.

John Lukondi
Lorida