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As I sit and watch the horrifying details unfold in the high school shooting in Littelton, Colorado;
I recall a similar incident here in Washington State just a few years ago. It was a sad tale of students and teachers going to school never to return to their homes. It is a sad statement of our times when young people are killing their teachers, their friends and their classmates.
The problem is that this is happening every day and it doesn't always happen with guns.but when a gun is
involved the media is real quick to point the finger at the everyday gun owner. The message we are receiving is that we are somehow at fault because we just happen to believe in the Second Amendment of
the Constitution of the United States.
President Clinton will be in the news in a few days calling for a halt to firearms and bringing up the
same old issues He will use today's tragedy to back up his anti gun legislation and many people in many states will loose another chunk of the freedom that our ancestors fought so hard to preserve.
The kids involved in the shootings and terrorism know that they our going to get all the attention they
crave, become famous , be on tv and in all the news papers.
In their minds they will be remembered long after its all over with. The only way I can see this ever stopping is if the media stops blaming the instrument of their terrorism instead of putting it where it lies, with the person responsible. I believe that the name and faces of these people should never be brought out by the media. They should remain a
blank face in history , nameless outside of court rooms.
I wonder how the people in Kosovo would feel about our dilemma? They lost there guns years ago!
Shane Rupe
We as hunters sometimes tend to be to soft spoken and since we are that way I would like to suggest
that if you are not already a NRA member you join. They are our voice as gun owners and as the guns go so will our hunting .
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