Dear editor,
I have been a life member of the NRA for 50 years. I do agree that we need a ban on bump stocks. I remember 30 years ago when they wanted to ban Saturday Night Specials — a cheap pistol that everyone could afford. I haven’t heard that name for 30 years. I think the NRA’s purpose is once they get started, they won’t quit.
As to people getting killed, there will always be a way. They teach our children to make explosives. Just think, the Muir Building in Oklahoma City was blown to pieces with fertilizer and diesel fuel.
They have taken religion out of the schools and people let their children watch TV 10 hours a day. The other day I was switching channels and a cartoon showed two Catholic sisters holding a shotgun to the children’s heads. They pulled the trigger and blew their heads off. Blood all over the ceiling. The other nun shot the gun and a rainbow came out of the child’s body and his head was blown off.
I see in the Oct. 5 Iola Register an article about drug overdoses. Nearly two-thirds of them from prescriptions of opioids. Heroin killed 64,000 Americans last year, over 20 percent more than in 2015. When the DEA tried to crack down on the pharmaceutical industry, the industry paid a retired U.S. senator $1.5 million to lobby for them.
I see where a few people would like to put all the grade school children in one school! They are now in concrete schools that are almost tornado-proof. Why put them all together so some crazy person can kill them there? Better off in three schools for protection.
The new school would be fabricated with metal like the LaHarpe school, which they claimed had outlived its life after 30 years.
I see that in France a truck killed 60 people and wounded 400.
As for our NRA officials, they are voted in. If you were an NRA member you could write your name in if desired. Charlton Heston was our president for years.
Gun ownership is the best protection U.S. citizens have. Look at the news to see what happens when people are not armed!
Raymond Cooper,
Iola, Kan.
Letter to the editor — November 1, 2017
