Letter missed its target

Mr. Lindholdt (Letters, Sept. 19), citing Scripture is a desperate attempt to rally the religious community behind your tiring crusade against the National Rifle Association. You’ve chosen the wrong audience to try to persuade with your propaganda this time, as you apparently still don’t realize the NRA is an organization of God-loving, law-abiding American citizens.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 10,839 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2009. Should we blame these deaths on the vehicles that were driven instead of on the individuals that drove them? Should we seek more vehicle laws? Should we ban vehicles entirely based on the actions of a few? Should we bankrupt the major automobile manufacturers through lawsuits?

Absolutely not. It would be ridiculous to blame automobile manufacturers for deaths caused by impaired drivers or to conclude these deaths are the result of allowing society to own vehicles. Human indiscretion is to blame here, is it not?

Yet this common-sense logic is continually disregarded by those promoting anti-gun rhetoric and philosophy. Insinuating that Pastor Creach might still be alive if he hadn’t owned a firearm is a despicable, careless and demeaning slap in the face to him and his family. Shame on you, Paul.

John R. Clarke Jr.

Spokane Valley