It’s Not About Hunting; It’s About Self-Defense

excerpted from GOP News & Views 3/8/01

“(B)efore we go running off to our congressmen demanding more and
more gun laws, let’s remember that over the past twenty-two (22) years,
there have been a total of 86 children killed by guns in our schools.
That figure includes the two that died yesterday (in San Diego). That’s
3.9 children per year … or about 16 fewer children than were killed by
government mandated airbags last year.
“After recently having some family members visit Israel, I
feel compelled to ask how many students would have been killed or
injured had California’s Santana High School shooter Andy Williams
committed this same outrageous attack in an Israeli high school, where
almost every teacher is armed?”

- GOPN&V reader Joseph G. Lolli, 3/6/01