Letter: NRA has lied to Americans

Sunday, March 19, 2000 | 9:39 a.m.

For several years since the Brady bill the National Rifle Association has lied to the American people by stating that the gun control advocates were "trying to take away our guns."

Recently, in response to gun control issues, a woman wrote in a letter to the editor that we should put the Ten Commandments back into the classroom as her solution to gun violence. I chuckled at first. But then I thought, perhaps she had a point. We could give each kid a slate inscribed with the Ten commandments that they could strap to themselves as protective vests against those "guns (that) don't kill."

I am surprised that Charlton Heston (Moses) hadn't thought of that. But then again perhaps "Moses" Heston doesn't understand the 8th commandment like he thinks he does the 2nd Amendment.

JAMES J. POUPARD

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