The LA Times called...

[Rocky Raab]

A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an editorial propounding their usual line of anti-gun silliness. This diatribe (which is too long to post again here) can be found at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,1307373.story


I wrote a letter in reply. Well, they just called to say my letter would be printed in their Sunday edition. For those two or three of you who don't subscribe (snicker, snort, chortle) to the thing, here's a preview of what I wrote:

subject: Performance-Based gun design

comment: Regarding Jeffery Fagan's column June 29 proposing
"performance-based" initiatives by gun companies. Fagan suggested better gun locks and other physical design changes as examples.

What a wonderful idea. Let's try it.

Let's have a gun company make up some handguns that weigh 25 pounds, are too big to conceal, fire only one shot and have a trigger guard with a 30-minute unlock delay. Then let's make it the only gun authorized for carry by LA cops, all California politicians and their bodyguards. We'll give it a ten-year trial.

Surely, if such things are good enough for the public to defend
themselves, they ought to be good enough for public servants. Right?