Letters To The Editor
Montgomery County Journal
March 21, 2001
I am appalled by the County Council's insistence on attempting to blackmail the Montgomery County Fairgrounds into prohibiting gun shows.
No one, least of all The Gazette, seems willing to call this ploy for what it is: raw political grandstanding. Technically, it appears that since the county provided some funds for restroom renovation, the county can bring the fairgrounds to heel. Save the citizens from guns!
If Blair Ewing and his gang want to do something of substance, I suggest they extricate the county from the liquor business.
Robert Pellenbarg, Silver Spring
The anti-gun presenters recited sad anecdotes and unsupported assumptions, and at least one implied that those who support gun shows support gun violence.
For the most part the pro-freedom speakers pointed out that the tightly regulated gun shows are not part of the problem, no matter how it is defined, and backed up their statements with data. Others, equally important and even more impassioned, spoke of First and Second Amendment rights, and how, if the County Council could so blithely trash these rights, just what would be next.
David N. Cowan, Silver Spring
The writer is a member of Doctors for Sensible Guns Laws, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership and Homicide Research Working Group.
Your Feb. 21 editorial cartoon depicting snarling guns show promoters and frightened County Council members implying the horrible consequences "...if they had guns" is a piece of propaganda worthy of Josef Goebbels.
To insinuate that representatives of a law-abiding trade group defending its position, which is to sell a lawful and necessary product is beyond disgusting.
The Gazette has taken an anti-freedom and anti-self-defense stance, often manufacturing solutions for problems that do not exist, such as the imaginary gun show loophole.
Dr. Jack Leeb, Silver Spring
The Feb. 21 Curtis cartoon was one of the most bigoted pieces of propaganda I've seen since my trip to the Holocaust Museum.
The depiction of gun show promoters as ape like Neanderthals was reminiscent of some of the Nazis' depictions of Jews. In our oh so sensitive politically correct world, there are still a few groups for which bigotry is OK, even encouraged, and gun owners and Christians are at the top of the list.
Robert Grimm, Silver Spring
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