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Article: Letters to the editor
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- April 23, 2009
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Fight to defend gun freedom
Editor:
Yes, gun control is a controversial subject. There are varying
opinions, but we should all ask ourselves, is gun control good for
America? Our forefathers didn't think so and felt the need to
protect the citizenry with the 2nd Amendment. The following
statistics reveal those American patriots understood what effects
gun control could have on individual rights and freedom, if left
unchecked.
1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5
million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to
1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, ...