Show Letter Leffer To o The e eDear Editor tor Dear Editor The hysteria for gun control rolls on Those In favor of the legislation cite all the crimes committed with guns I would suppose that the fOllowing fol following following fOl- fOl lowing would be considered one of those crimes This is a quote from the publication of the Association to Preserve Our to Keep and Bear Arms The Article read as follows The Pike County Democrat Times tells of the gallant ac actions actions ac- ac actions of Mrs Frank who with her four daughters returned home one evening to tobe tobe tobe be met Insl inside e by a shotgun- shotgun armed intruder who forced the family upstairs and tied Mrs to a chair in a separate separate separate sep sep- arate room Mrs was able to slip her bonds after he left lert the room She then went to the chest of drawers and got gota a pistol and some cartridges She then stepped quietly downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs where her son was tied up He showed her how to load and fire the pistol She then went back upstairs and in one of the bedrooms she found the Intruder now naked and about to attack her year 13 old daughter She called to him to stop but the criminal grasped grasped grasp grasp- ed his shotgun and turned toward to toward to- to toward ward Mrs She fired three shots and the man fell to the floor mortally wounded This woman saved herself and her family because she was prepared and able to do so This is but one of the countless countless countless count count- less numbers of similar Inci Inci- dents If all the demands of the gun anti fanatics become realities self-protection self by the citizen would become an im Im- Im possibility When registration an and licensing prove ineffective in curbing the rising tide of vio violence lence surely they will demand confiscation next Much more could be said on this subject We must oppose this hysteria to our congressman congress congress- man President and Supreme Court It is unconstitutional as the second amendment of the Bill of Rights states the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon Gun controls are an infringe Infringe- ment The pen is mightier than the sword Use It BRUCE JOHNSON |