Letters to the Editor 05-17-2000
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Million Moms - Human Pretension - Gun Violence
Million Moms
Editor, Times-Union:Women who participated in the Million Mom March, May 14, made a terrible mistake by attacking guns instead of focusing on the women who have been raped or killed because of gun control laws.
Marchers should have mourned the VICTIMS of gun control, including the estimated 4,177 women who will be raped this year because it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon in their state.
Instead, marchers demanded more laws that put more women at risk. Libertarians have to ask: What will it take to make the Million Mom marchers understand, criminals love women who hate guns?
May 14, an estimated 150,000 women participated in the Million Mom March in Washington, DC. They demanded more gun laws, including trigger locks, gun licensing, limits on guns and ammunition, ending TV programs and movies that "glamorize" guns, more regulation of gun shows, and much more.
Unfortunately, such laws just put more women at risk of being raped or killed.
It's impossible to count all the women who have already been victimized by anti-gun measures. However, we do know at least 4,177 women are raped every year because of laws that make it illegal to carry a concealed weapon.
That figure comes from the Cato Institute study, which found that violent crime dropped dramatically in 24 states that passed concealed-carry laws, allowing ordinary people to carry concealed handguns.
The Lott-Mustard study, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns," found that in those states, rapes fell by 5.2 percent, murders were reduced by 7.65 percent, robberies fell by 2.2 percent, and aggravated assaults dropped by 7 percent.
Had other states passed similar concealed-carry laws, that 5.2 percent drop in rapes would have translated into an additional 4,000+ women annually who would not have been sexually assaulted. Instead, tragically, they were raped because politicians refused to give them the right to defend themselves.
The Million Mom March participants think they sponsored an anti-gun event. Instead, they sponsored a pro-rape event. If you listened carefully on Sunday, you just might have heard the sound of rapists, stalkers and wife-beaters cheering as they anticipate how much easier it will be to commit crimes against defenseless women.
If the marchers weren't willing to consider the past and future victims of gun-control laws, Libertarians will.
As the media focuses on women who are demanding that their Second Amendment rights be taken away from them, Libertarians will commemorate the women whose right not to be a crime victim was taken away from them.
Libertarians will remember girls who never became mothers because their lives were cut short by psychopaths. We will remember the mothers who lost children to gun-toting thugs because it was illegal for them to defend their families. And we will remember the women whose lives have been ravaged by rape, assault or similar crimes.
In short, we mourn the thousands of women who could not march on Mothers Day, because they are the silent victims of the lethal laws and gun-control policies that the Million Mom March so loudly advocates.
Daniel Stevens
Libertarian Party of Kosciusko County
via e-mail
Human Pretension
Editor, Times-Union:I read with interest and amusement your News Views about human pretension in general and the global warming nonsense in particular. I must, however, ask you not to be silly. How can it possibly take "millions of years to create oil" when the earth is only 6,000 (or is it 8,000) years old? Keep up the good work.
Daniel T. Rose
Warsaw
Gun Violence
Editor, Times-Union:My name is David Roose and I've lived in Warsaw basically all of my life. I am very active in our community and I vote religiously. As some of you have read in previous "Letters" I've written, I am a 4-H & NRA certified firearms instructor as well as an Indiana DNR Hunter's Education volunteer instructor. I don't list these attributes as a pat on the back but rather as a statement of what I'm about and what I do within our community.
The ONLY way our elected governmental officials can effectively address the "gun violence" in America today is to deal directly and severely with the criminals and educate our youth thoroughly. Criminals need to face a REAL threat of punishment for wrongdoings, severe punishment for violent acts especially and our children need a deep understanding of what our nation has gone through to acquire and keep its freedoms as well as what makes them so important. America's current administration needs to leave its law-abiding citizens alone and concentrate on the real problem, criminals. Criminals obviously don't care about the laws, hence the "criminals" part, so more gun control laws obviously aren't the answer. My biggest gripe though is the abhorrent practice of trying to tag this unconstitutional nonsense onto other laws, bills or items and trying to squeak them through. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. If those who support gun control don't have the spine to support it in a stand-alone fashion, in the wide open light of day, then that should tell us all something about their back door tactics and their honest belief in what they're up to. As a law-abiding/voting citizen of Indiana I am wholeheartedly asking each of you to contact your elected officials and express your opinions in the hopes that they'll do their jobs as elected representatives of "we, the people." PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING!
David E. Roose
Warsaw
via e-mail
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Million Moms
Editor, Times-Union:Women who participated in the Million Mom March, May 14, made a terrible mistake by attacking guns instead of focusing on the women who have been raped or killed because of gun control laws.
Marchers should have mourned the VICTIMS of gun control, including the estimated 4,177 women who will be raped this year because it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon in their state.
Instead, marchers demanded more laws that put more women at risk. Libertarians have to ask: What will it take to make the Million Mom marchers understand, criminals love women who hate guns?
May 14, an estimated 150,000 women participated in the Million Mom March in Washington, DC. They demanded more gun laws, including trigger locks, gun licensing, limits on guns and ammunition, ending TV programs and movies that "glamorize" guns, more regulation of gun shows, and much more.
Unfortunately, such laws just put more women at risk of being raped or killed.
It's impossible to count all the women who have already been victimized by anti-gun measures. However, we do know at least 4,177 women are raped every year because of laws that make it illegal to carry a concealed weapon.
That figure comes from the Cato Institute study, which found that violent crime dropped dramatically in 24 states that passed concealed-carry laws, allowing ordinary people to carry concealed handguns.
The Lott-Mustard study, "Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns," found that in those states, rapes fell by 5.2 percent, murders were reduced by 7.65 percent, robberies fell by 2.2 percent, and aggravated assaults dropped by 7 percent.
Had other states passed similar concealed-carry laws, that 5.2 percent drop in rapes would have translated into an additional 4,000+ women annually who would not have been sexually assaulted. Instead, tragically, they were raped because politicians refused to give them the right to defend themselves.
The Million Mom March participants think they sponsored an anti-gun event. Instead, they sponsored a pro-rape event. If you listened carefully on Sunday, you just might have heard the sound of rapists, stalkers and wife-beaters cheering as they anticipate how much easier it will be to commit crimes against defenseless women.
If the marchers weren't willing to consider the past and future victims of gun-control laws, Libertarians will.
As the media focuses on women who are demanding that their Second Amendment rights be taken away from them, Libertarians will commemorate the women whose right not to be a crime victim was taken away from them.
Libertarians will remember girls who never became mothers because their lives were cut short by psychopaths. We will remember the mothers who lost children to gun-toting thugs because it was illegal for them to defend their families. And we will remember the women whose lives have been ravaged by rape, assault or similar crimes.
In short, we mourn the thousands of women who could not march on Mothers Day, because they are the silent victims of the lethal laws and gun-control policies that the Million Mom March so loudly advocates.
Daniel Stevens
Libertarian Party of Kosciusko County
via e-mail
Human Pretension
Editor, Times-Union:I read with interest and amusement your News Views about human pretension in general and the global warming nonsense in particular. I must, however, ask you not to be silly. How can it possibly take "millions of years to create oil" when the earth is only 6,000 (or is it 8,000) years old? Keep up the good work.
Daniel T. Rose
Warsaw
Gun Violence
Editor, Times-Union:My name is David Roose and I've lived in Warsaw basically all of my life. I am very active in our community and I vote religiously. As some of you have read in previous "Letters" I've written, I am a 4-H & NRA certified firearms instructor as well as an Indiana DNR Hunter's Education volunteer instructor. I don't list these attributes as a pat on the back but rather as a statement of what I'm about and what I do within our community.
The ONLY way our elected governmental officials can effectively address the "gun violence" in America today is to deal directly and severely with the criminals and educate our youth thoroughly. Criminals need to face a REAL threat of punishment for wrongdoings, severe punishment for violent acts especially and our children need a deep understanding of what our nation has gone through to acquire and keep its freedoms as well as what makes them so important. America's current administration needs to leave its law-abiding citizens alone and concentrate on the real problem, criminals. Criminals obviously don't care about the laws, hence the "criminals" part, so more gun control laws obviously aren't the answer. My biggest gripe though is the abhorrent practice of trying to tag this unconstitutional nonsense onto other laws, bills or items and trying to squeak them through. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. If those who support gun control don't have the spine to support it in a stand-alone fashion, in the wide open light of day, then that should tell us all something about their back door tactics and their honest belief in what they're up to. As a law-abiding/voting citizen of Indiana I am wholeheartedly asking each of you to contact your elected officials and express your opinions in the hopes that they'll do their jobs as elected representatives of "we, the people." PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING!
David E. Roose
Warsaw
via e-mail
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