Bigger problems than outlawing semi-automatic rifles   I read
the Jan. 18 Record-Courier editorial ("Gun control formidable
challenge for Obama") and found it to be the most balanced
editorial I have ever seen from either camp.  As a boy, my
parents trusted me to wander about the woods, fields and along
the rivers of Western Pennsylvania with my dog, Blackie, and my
gun. Often, I would meet with other armed boys with cheap guns
like mine, unknown adult males with new, fancy, expensive
firearms, and very old men with very, very old weapons. On a
hillside, we would sometimes exchange "pleasantries," share some
ammunition or wild game. They would not have harmed me nor would
I have harmed them.  While we talked, Hitler and Stalin were
then murdering millions in Europe. Previously, British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain had given part of Europe to Hitler
and now British delegations were in the United States to beg
American sportsmen to loan their guns to Britain. You see,
Britain had disarmed its citizens and