Jim Gonzales Vail, CO, Colorado  Back to: News January 13, 2013
Follow News  Vail Daily letter: I'll take a fighting chance  I
am writing in response to a recent letter in which the author
(Harry Bornstein) states that armed guards in schools will do
nothing to protect students. In his scenario at Sandy Hook, the
armed guard there would have been killed instantly.  I am not so
cynical. In my version, the guard kills the cowardly shooter (I
refuse to use his name) before he kills anyone.  In the Aurora
theater, Henry, you are wrong. An armed citizen could have
stopped the coward outright, saving lives. You refuse to
acknowledge that scenario as well.  You're angry at the NRA but
fail to realize that the gun is why the USA exists as the
greatest free nation on Earth. When the King imposed harsh taxes
and tried to disarm his subjects, it brought on the
Revolutionary War. The superior guns of the militia won the war.
There is no queen on our money.  You tout the gun control in
Japan as a model but fail to remembe