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NRA efforts support terror; Stephen F. “The Onion” Kislock, III; Beaver County Times; June 7, 2013.
Most of Mr. Kislock’s 71+ letters over the last eight years have been Republican-bashing exercises, though he sometimes goes after Democrats for his pet causes. Sometime during 2009 Mr. Kislock became an in-house commentator for Beaver County Reds, though it’s been some time since he’s written there. Please follow this link to learn more about Beaver County Reds. You may also remember Mr. Kislock appears to believe “The Onion” is a real news source.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“The NRA and the Second Amendment support to the extreme the lawful buying of AK-47s, AR15s, Bushmasters, extended clips and bullets that penetrate body armor.”
[RWC] Mr. Kislock has a thing for the NRA. Some previous NRA-related Kislock letters are here, here, and here.
“With the gun show loophole, The [sic] NRA has made sure foreign and domestic terrorists are not inconvenienced, by background checks when buying weapons of mass death.”
[RWC] Mr. Kislock apparently gets his gun show info from fellow BCR member Carl Davidson. At least for Pennsylvania, there is no “gun show loophole.”
“The amendments to our Constitution are not written in stone!
“What rights do I have to surrender, my life, my liberty and my pursuit of happiness, so someone may own an AR15?”
[RWC] None, Mr. Kislock; read the PA and U.S. constitutions.
“The lack of laws tracking these weapons is laughable, if not for all deaths and destruction these weapons cause. If a car buyer is on the ‘do not sell list,’ no car. You cannot drive without insurance, but semi-automatic weapons are treated like a can of pop. I have been told cars kill, but we have laws for cars and none for the terrorist who want own an AR15.”
[RWC] There’s a ‘do not sell list’ for car buyers?
In grade school, most of us learned the difference between privileges and rights. Mr. Kislock needs a refresher course; he should know the right to bear arms is a right while owning a car is a privilege.
As for “semi-automatic weapons are treated like can of pop,” I didn’t need a background check the last time I bought “a can of pop.” As a reminder, semi-automatic weapons fire a single shot per trigger-pull, not multiple shots. The civilian purchase of new fully automatic weapons has been illegal since 1986. Fully automatic weapons registered by civilians before 1986 are legal, however, and can be transferred to other civilians. Further, it’s illegal to convert a semi-automatic weapon to automatic.
“The merchants of death and their supporters must be reigned [sic] in. We are a nation of laws; this is how we have survived, since day one of our country.”
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