More on Guns, With Readers
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/more-on-guns-with-readers/
I base this on the fact of so many splendid, thoughtful e-mails to this (and other) columns and articles. There's nothing I want to do less than write on the subject of guns again. But the fact that "Back When I Was Packing" drew such a large number and sterling quality of e-mails changed my mind. I decided that a nice person wouldn't ignore so many concerned readers.
Why do you suppose so many people in supposedly post-literate America — despite how many of our language and brain skills have been rubbed dull by over-exposure to computer games and reality shows and iPods and John McCain running-mates — can still just plain write well.
Here's an example of clean writing that teachers wish they could easily teach; from Terry of Nevada.
---SPSmithI find the confiscatory argument strange. It's usually put forward by folks who fear that their government will take their rights away and, lacking guns, they will have no defense against that.
Oddly these same people often advocate for a strong military. Do these people seriously believe that some sort of people's militia will be any match for the military they've helped to create, if the military were under the control of some despot? A few guys standing around with Bushmasters are going to defeat, say, the guys who took out Bin Laden?
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