I wrote the whore reporter a message about the story. I hope I didn't crush any of his beliefs about gun owners being time bombs or anything.


I was reading and listening to your story on the gun buy back and I was wondering why there was no mention of how they ran a foul of the law on the 6th when they held their last gun show. According to Colorado law 3 or more people get together to buy a gun it will be considered a gun show. There is no exception for gun buy back. They broke the law trying to be PC. They heard about gun buy backs in other cities and thought they could do something important sounding here too. To bad they didn't read about those gun buy backs being dismal failures as well.
The people at these gun buy backs have no idea that the guns that they want to buy are not worth $50 and no body in their right minds would turn in a gun worth a $1000 for $50.

Also, there is no mention of law abiding gun owners. I think that there is a law abiding community thousand of times larger that obey the law and don't commit crimes with their guns. However, there isn't one mention of them. Why is that? Are you unaware that there is a group of people that own firearms that don't kill people with them? The story sounds like all guns are to blame for the deaths of the 2 people mentioned in your story. Guns don't move on their own. They are inanimate objects after all. Couldn't their time be better spent getting the word out to criminals that punishments are severe for murder? And maybe mention a few people protecting themselves with guns against criminals? A hoodlum with an illegal gun isn't going to care about what the law says if they have decided to live outside of the law. They may think twice about rape or murder if there is a chance that someone they think is an easy target will kill them. That might get them to rethink their whole career choice? Maybe they can go to the church for help instead of a handout?

Misusing a gun is offensive to all law abiding gun owners and mentioning that "guns in the wrong hands" without mentioning criminals makes it sound like all guns and all gun owners. Improving education about gun safety will save more lives than a meaningless attempt to a hundred guns off the street at $50 a pop. Maybe sell them at a real gun show where back ground checks are done on the buyers. That will ensure that the person buying the gun doesn't have the wrong hands. And if the gun is worth more than $50 it will ensure that someone isn't getting ripped off by some people willing to break a gun show law to get something... I don't know what? If its to save 1 life its a waste of resources, because education about guns can save many more lives without eroding a right or cheapening the people who exercise it.

Thanks for your time.

David