THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, August 27, 1994 TAG: 9408270006
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
Guy Friddell rehashes all the arguments about gun control while attacking the National Rifle Association (column, Aug. 10). He concludes: ``There is no need to include NRA lobbyists in this democratic process.''
Not only does this guy want to kill the Second Amendment, he's not that crazy about the democratic process either. I wonder what Mr. Friddell's reaction would be if NRA lobbyists said there was ``no need to include Guy Friddell in this democratic process.''
Mr. Friddell's thinking indicates he worships at the alter of government solutions - for everything and everybody. Now that he sees his ideas falling apart and no longer defensible, he says, ``Stop the conversation. A little more money, a little more time and we'll finally lick these problems.''
If government were a person looking for a job, his record would consist of far too many stories about spending a tremendous amount of money to achieve marginal results, exacerbating existing problems and creating new problems where none previously existed.
No employer in his right mind would give a job to anybody with a record like that. Yet that's what Mr. Friddell and those of his ilk would have us do.
HOWARD PEARLMAN
Chesapeake, Aug. 10, 1994 by CNB