Lou Kiesling wrote in a message to All:
 LK>  Under the dark umbrella of a virtually invisible provision
 LK> slipped into the Defense Department budget for 1996, the
 LK> pentagon will legally authorize the giveaway of over 176,000
 LK> never issued World War II and Korea carbines, computers,
What kind of guns would be sold?  Never issued?  What do you think the price 
will be?
 LK>  Speak up folks. Fast.
I see this a lot in the news.  We are all going to hell if we do this, or 
will be maimed/killed if we do not pass the current safety law.  I have 
written a couple letters to a couple newspapers, both about faulty reporting 
on events that I had seen, and as expected it may as well have been round 
filed.  These are the only two events I had witnessed and seen in the 
newspaper and TV (AZ forest fire (acres burned vs. reality, who was there, 
how they were fighting the fire, what kind of equipment they were using, how 
many firefighters, etc.) and a multiple car crash on a highway (Seattle - why 
it happened, and what actually happened).  Both were wrong by so far as to 
make you think they were making up facts from a second hand rumor.  Gah, it 
really opened my eyes.  
Anyway, this isn't really comparable to an opinion page writer, but I had to 
get it off my chest :)
I am heartened by the fact that writers like this usually rant about anything 
non-liberal that comes to their mind every day, and are not taken too 
seriously (I hope) by thinking people.  
Who knows?  Are there really 176k guns being offered, or is it 1,000 guns and 
175,000 other odds and ends.  These writers don't really care, no one usually 
calls them out on factual or conceptual error anyway.
David 
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