Staff writers Melvin Claxton and William Gaines have used the front page to yet again write a story to promote your agenda of eliminating all civilian guns in the United States. Forget the 2nd Amendment, right? In so doing, however, they missed the real story.
Why is there so much military scrap? Why is the military buying so much with the left hand and selling all that surplus with the right hand? A recent TV news show pictured warehouses full of equipment the military won’t ever use, and there is so much equipment that they don’t even know what they have or where it’s stored.
If the military budget were cut in half, we would be no less protected or capable. The billions of dollars of waste is the real story.
Your writers take raw statistics, isolated incidents, large pictures of guns and weave them into the big scare. If you’re trying to make a point, why bother with the truth? It’s interesting that the National Rifle Association cannot buy advertising in most newspapers and TV stations, but Sarah Brady and her bunch get freebies from the same people.
If you really wanted to be honest with your readers, why don’t you compare statistics in Florida before and after its enactment of the concealed-carry law?
A good newspaper keeps the news straight and opinions on the editorial page.
