Strongly worded letters don’t kill people Our item last week about a Stop Handgun Violence billboard generated plenty of spirited debate. Today, we find a pro-gun group, the Second Amendment Foundation, taking aim (hey, the Boston Herald said it, too) at Boston Globe business columnist Steve Bailey for supposedly violating federal law in 2005 while researching an anti-gun column. The group fired off a letter to the Globe editor; it has not (yet) put up a 250-foot billboard. From a brand-image standpoint, I’m not sure the pro-gun folks want this kind of publicity. Frankly, it just reminds everyone how easy it is to buy handguns illegally and makes Bailey look way cooler and more crusading than he actually is. For me, the most intriguing detail is that he expensed the gun to the Globe—and then didn’t even keep it! No wonder the paper’s parent, The New York Times Co., is in financial disarray. —Posted by David Gianatasio

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" it just reminds everyone how easy it is to buy handguns illegally"

---You've obviously never been to a gun show. First, you have to show ID, then you have to wait 2 days for the background check ot clear. Lastly, less than 0.1% of crimes are done with guns bought at gun shows. But why care about facts when it's easier to believe the anti-gun lies?

Posted by: Bobby | Jul 19, 2007 3:40:48 PM

When I saw that this post had one comment I knew it was going to be from Bobby, and that it would be pro-gun.

Posted by: Clean Harry | Jul 20, 2007 11:10:02 PM

I'm not just pro-gun, Harry, I'm pro-freedom. During the LA riots it was korean store owners with guns who were able to defend their stores. The unarmed hoodlums weren't gonna fuck with a tough armed koreans. It was the unarmed koreans that lost everything, who ran to the gun stores only to find out a 3 week waiting period would keep them disarmed. Too bad the rioters weren't willing to wait for 3 weeks while law-abiding people were trying to get their guns. But what do I know? Liberals have a solution for everything.

Can't get a job? Affirmative action. Can't take a pill? Here, have an abortion. Gas is too expensive? Let's raise the gas tax so people drive less. Prisons are overcrowded? Let's not build more prisons but give more prisoners early parole. An area has a lot of crime? Let's all have a nice candle light vigil while we shout anti-violence slogans.

It's your choice, you can live in liberal la la land or you can join the centrists, libertarians and conservatives in the real world.

Posted by: Bobby | Jul 23, 2007 5:42:12 PM

hey bobby, thanks for lecturing us all on "the real world," fake adfreak guy.

Posted by: The VP Shot My Face and I Apologized to Him! | Jul 24, 2007 3:33:55 PM

You're welcomed long screen name. Too bad the VP didn't shoot you.

Posted by: Bobby | Jul 25, 2007 4:30:46 PM

Yeah, that would be great if Cheney would go shoot everyone who dares to disagree with Bobby.

Not enough bullets in the world, though.

Posted by: wtf? | Jul 25, 2007 5:14:48 PM

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