Letters to the Editor
Volume VII Number 41
October 14-20, 1999

When "W" Stands for Weapons, Too

Dear New Bay Times~Weekly:

Dubya, (Gov. George W. Bush of Texas) has been aptly nicknamed. The W. stands for wimp. A real president doesn't call the recent multiple killings "a wave of evil" that can only be solved by "more love in society." A real president puts six new laws right in the National Rifle Association's face:

• A ban on all assault rifles and Saturday night specials, the recommendation of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks. In America, every day, we lose 65 people to handguns;
• A trigger lock on every gun - the Gov. Parris Glendening Bill. If a kid can't unlock it, he can't shoot it;
• A lock box or cabinet for all guns. The Jonesboro boys first went to a home where they found the guns locked up. So they went to another home where the guns were just lying around;
• Revocation of license for the 389 dealers to whom half of 1998's crime guns were traced. (This is only 38 of one percent of the nation's 100,000 licensed dealers;)
• The Virginia Plan: limit each buyer to one gun a month. East Coast cities used to trace crime guns back to Virginia, where traffickers would buy cases at a time. Now the guns are traced back to Texas and other southern states;
• Hold gun show dealers to the same laws as resident dealers. Dubya, after Columbine (High School in Colorado), said he favored this in Texas but then caved in to the NRA.

In 1995, he signed a law letting Texans carry concealed weapons. Early this year, he signed another law stopping Texas cities from suing gun makers, as have 20 other cities. In a recent poll, 76 percent of Americans said they wanted handgun registration and 59 percent will vote for a pro-gun control candidate for president. Are you listening Dubya?

-James A. Hoage, Severna Park

Burton's Reasoning Fishy

Dear New Bay Times~Weekly:

Bill Burton writes (Vol. 7, No. 40) last week that we shouldn't "hoist our Confederate flag" and tell the Fisheries Commission we're going to do our own thing. He seems to think everything will get worked out if DNR puts on new rockfish rules next year.

Personally, I'm tired of all the rules when Massachusetts and coastal states keep catching the brunt of the big fish and we end up with the 16-inchers like we are this fall. What I want to know is who will crack down on the other states when DNR is cracking down on us?

-J. Watson, Prince George's County

Classic Coverage

Dear New Bay Times~Weekly:

Thanks for giving some attention to classic cars as you did with Christy Grimes' recent story about the Bluegrass Festival and Auto Show in Anne Arundel County. (Classy Company, Vol. VII No. 38.) When the successes of this century are totaled up, they are sure to include the Model A Ford and the '57 Chevy.

-Rob Hughes, Crofton

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