White Plains CitizeNetReporter - <i>King Komments:</i> Stop Selling Guns.

King KommentsBy White Plains Councilman William King. October 28, 2002: The Councilman raises the issue of why there needs to be over-the-counter guns and ammunition sales in White Plains.

If Sports Authority in White Plains is still selling guns and bullets, I am going to propose a Council resolution that they stop doing so, after seeing the movie Bowling for Columbine over the weekend. I urge everyone to go see it.

Bowling for Columbine is a film by the producer/writer/director Michael Moore who became famous for his film Roger and Me. In Bowling for Columbine, two Columbine students who were shot and survived (one paralyzed in a wheelchair and the other who still has a bullet lodged in his chest by his heart), along with Michael Moore, visit the headquarters of K-Mart to ask that K-Mart stop selling bullets. The shooters from their school used bullets they bought at the K-Mart in town.

After reading today about yet another, yet another, shooting incident at the University of Arizona, on top of everything else in the country including the recent gun fatality in White Plains, I am just fed up with the non-stop gun violence all over the nation.

When I have been in Sports Authority before, I have always felt, 'what's a large gun and ammo department doing in White Plains?' People don't shoot deer in Westchester do they? (not that I am for shooting deer either, but let's stop the shooting of people first) Can't animal hunters buy their supplies nearer where they hunt?

Please go see the movie (it's currently playing at the cinema in Scarsdale on Central Ave.).

If the U.S. is going to continue to allow the 2nd Amendment to mean that citizens can own all types of guns and ammunition, then I believe the country should do like it is doing with another critical aspect of homeland security, airport security, and federalize the sale and distribution of guns and ammo, i.e. only sell these from U.S. government owned and operated stores.

Thank you.

- Bill King, White Plains Common Council

Note: In the first posting of this comment, WPCNR noted that Sears sells guns, too, based on our last trip to Sears. Mr. King advises us that Sears in White Plains no longer sells guns.


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