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- I share Robert Hughes' love for the outdoors and consider
- myself an avid sportsman (ESSAY, April 3). For years the National
- Rifle Association has projected the false impression that it speaks
- for American hunters en masse. It does not. The Second Amendment
- to the Constitution guarantees my right to bear arms, but sensible
- and prudent legislation restricts my ability to possess plastic
- explosives, hand grenades, land mines and a variety of other
- military weaponry. I see no reason not to include Uzis, MAC-10s and
- AK-47s on that list.
-
- Ralph Turkel
- Laguna Hills, Calif.
-
- I'm the N.R.A., and I'm damned angry! For more than 50 years
- I have been proud to belong to that fine, patriotic American
- organization. I am disgusted by TIME's ignorant anti-gun
- propagandizing. Hughes' essay was a dumb attempt to alienate
- hunters from the N.R.A. An art critic posing as a hunter is not
- going to fool anybody. N.R.A. membership isn't for Hughes. He would
- feel much more at home with the Sarah Brady bunch at Handgun
- Control Inc.
-
- Paul Wahl
- Bogota, N.J.
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- Hughes' ready, aim, fire, bull's-eye approach is not only on
- target but is also the best piece I have read on the subject. I
- intend to distribute copies of it to the owners of vehicles whose
- bumpers bear the slogan I'M THE N.R.A. AND I VOTE, along with a tag
- line I'M NOT AND SO DO I.
-
- Cornell K. Rudov
- Hopewell, N.J.
-
- The press, as a rule, has a left-wing answer to everything,
- including guns. This story was a character assassination of an
- organization that is older than TIME or Hughes. As a life member
- of the N.R.A., I believe it represents me. TIME does not.
-
- Ely I. Bergmann
- San Antonio
-
- Hughes is not a real hunter. He obviously has only a slight
- interest in the sport. He is like someone who will weed a garden
- two or three times a year and then call himself a farmer.
-
- Steven Siro
- Rockaway, N.J.
-
- A racist N.R.A. supporter once told me that people who favor
- gun control "ought to be shot." His rantings about the Second
- Amendment got no raves from me. I suggested that all Americans
- should show as much concern for civil rights laws and the
- Constitution's 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as the "gun nuts"
- show for the Second. Then I ducked for cover.
-
- Richard Carr
- Fort Lauderdale