Summary
It's not often that 111 start off an editor's letter by writing about letters to the editor, but it's not often that we get the deluge of correspondence spawned by Ray Ring's cover package on firearms in the West, "Guns R Us." You'll see a selection of the missives in this issue; you can see more comments (and video interviews with a gun shop owner who's battling federal regulators) on our Web site, www.hcn.org.
What's striking to me about the letters is not their fervor; it's the ignorance of general constitutional principles many of them exhibit. Particularly on the pro-gun side of the firearms debate, there seems to be little realization that rights enumerated in the Constitution are not absolute, that courts often balance one against another in making decisions. Perhaps the most succinct example of this misperception of legal reality came in an e-mail from someone calling himself "redneckrepairs": "It's all fun and games for John Mecklin unless someone mentions reasonable restrictions on the press, isn't it?"See the full content of this document
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Editor's Note: Letter Imperfect
It's not often that 111 start off an editor's letter by writing about letters to the editor, but it's not often that we get the deluge of correspondence spawned by Ray Ring's cover pack...
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