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LETTERS, Page 6
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