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this county who can address these very complex needs and who can integrate all of our community services to provide the best and most professional service possible in Rappahannock County.
TEDDIE HANNON, EMT Castleton
Stop Bill
To the editor:
On November 22, we mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than 400,000 Americans have been killed in gunfire since his death. Ironically, on this anniversary, Congress is considering legislation which would weaken, not strengthen, America’s feeble gun laws.
In 1968, when Congress passed the Gun Control Act, our legislators specifically prohibited mail-order gun sales because President Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvery Oswald, used a cheap rifle purchased from a Chicago mail-order house. The weapon was fitted with a telescopic gunsight, also acquired through the mail. Less than an hour after killing the President, Oswald killed police officer J. D. Tippit with a .38 caliber handgun acquired from yet another mail-order house.
Now, the National Rifle Association wants to gut the 1968 Act through passage of the McClure-Volkmer Gun Decontrol Bill (S. 914 and H. R. 2420). This bill would lift the prohibition on mail-order sales and again allow easy access to firearms by criminals and would-be assassins.
This bill must be stopped. Our Congress should not enact legislation which only invites mail-order murder.
BARBARA- LAUTMAN Washington, ’D.C.
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