jean-claude:
Great letter, well thought out and articulated. Good for you. It will make those two reporters stop and think. Once they start to [b]think[/b], all sorts of things can happen!
A suggestion, if I may: Include a link to a pro-gun FAQ. I often write to reporters, and after addressing the specific reason why I wrote to them, I cut and paste the following:
Guns don't just kill, but also save lives. In your article, you made no mention of lawful self defense in today's day and age. Law abiding citizens in America use their guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times a year, far more than the estimated 500,000 crimes committed with guns every year. In almost all these cases, the mere display and brandishing of the gun by the citizen causes the criminal to retreat to safer pastures, with no shots being fired, and with no one getting hurt. Not surprisingly, these non-events seldom make the evening news.
I am enclosing a link to a Firearms Fact Sheet, which may challenge many of the "facts" propagated by the mainstream media. This Fact Sheet is produced by Gun Owners of America, a pro-gun organization, but every claim made is rigorously backed up by citations, many of which are from neutral sources. I invite you to read it and gain another perspective
on the gun control debate:
http://[url]www.gunowners.org/fs0101.htm[/url]
I also invite you to visit the web site of the The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars at:
http://[url]www.gunscholar.org[/url]