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- LETTERS, Page 6
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- I share Robert Hughes' love for the outdoors and consider
- myself an avid sportsman (ESSAY, April 3). For years the
- National Rifle Association has projected the false impression
- that it speaks for American hunters en masse. It does not. The
- Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees my right to bear
- arms, but sensible and prudent legislation restricts my ability
- to possess plastic explosives, hand grenades, land mines and a
- variety of other military weaponry. I see no reason not to
- include Uzis, MAC-10s and AK-47s on that list.
-
- Ralph Turkel Laguna Hills, Calif.
-
- I'm the N.R.A., and I'm damned angry! For more than 50
- years I have been proud to belong to that fine, patriotic
- American organization. I am disgusted by TIME's ignorant
- anti-gun propagandizing. Hughes' essay was a dumb attempt to
- alienate hunters from the N.R.A. An art critic posing as a
- hunter is not going to fool anybody. N.R.A. membership isn't for
- Hughes. He would feel much more at home with the Sarah Brady
- bunch at Handgun Control Inc.
-
- Paul Wahl Bogota, N.J.
-
- Hughes' ready, aim, fire, bull's-eye approach is not only
- on target but is also the best piece I have read on the subject.
- I intend to distribute copies of it to the owners of vehicles
- whose bumpers bear the slogan I'M THE N.R.A. AND I VOTE, along
- with a tag line I'M NOT AND SO DO I.
-
- Cornell K. Rudov Hopewell, N.J.
-
- The press, as a rule, has a left-wing answer to everything,
- including guns. This story was a character assassination of an
- organization that is older than TIME or Hughes. As a life
- member of the N.R.A., I believe it represents me. TIME does not.
-
- Ely I. Bergmann San Antonio
-
- Hughes is not a real hunter. He obviously has only a slight
- interest in the sport. He is like someone who will weed a
- garden two or three times a year and then call himself a farmer.
-
- Steven Siro Rockaway, N.J.
-
- A racist N.R.A. supporter once told me that people who
- favor gun control "ought to be shot." His rantings about the
- Second Amendment got no raves from me. I suggested that all
- Americans should show as much concern for civil rights laws and
- the Constitution's 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as the "gun
- nuts" show for the Second. Then I ducked for cover.
-
- Richard Carr Fort Lauderdale
-