dont worry- i got him.
he now has an email in his inbox:
I read your piece in the Captial Times, dated today. I strongly hope you will reconsider your views on this subject. Once again, the media has missed the boat. All logic and hope of creating a logical and peaceful society goes out the window the instant we start shifting the blame to the gun and away from the criminal.
If crime were simply the rational response of a human to the apparent inherent evils of a semiautomatic gun, then I submit that this type of story would have occurred all over the globe many millions of times.
Your facts are skewed as well, showing both your apparent ignorance toward firearms and hunting, and your liberal view of governmental systems.
NO ONE, EVER, can use a fully automatic gun in hunting. I wrote for a newspaper for years and before I wrote something like this I always checked my sources and looked up related laws. You didn't. You let your biases and anti-gun opinions invade your editorial. You saw an opportunity to add in "automatic" for effect and you did it. Congratulations. You've managed to shock and offend and motivate the mindless syncophants who make up the special interest groups who love to control everyone else through legislation.
Perhaps, during your vacation down the yellow journalism brick road, you could have pointed out that millions of people use semi-automatic guns, such as duck hunters and rabbit hunters, and that they are only allowed 3 shells in the gun, not 20 like Vang had. Maybe you could have said we need to be firm in our courts and not allow peple with criminal records to hunt, or even said that Mr. Vang should go to jail for a long long time so that he is made an example of. Instead you enacted the playground mentality wherein all peoples of a grou get punished and their toys get taken away because of one person's selfish actions and criminal intent.
While you're at it, maybe you could add that we shouldn't hunt at all since we have McDonalds, and that it was most likely the dead people's fault since they *gasp* called Vang names (that apparently were pretty correct, as we now see his behavior reflecting those stereotypes).
You wrote an editorial, an opinion piece. I know you have the right to your opinion and I would stand beside you to the death to defend this right. However when you fire up your word processor next time, give a damn enough to do some Nexis searches, make some phone calls, and try not to further make an ass of yourself.
