* Crossposted from: FREEDOM'S_VOICE
From: EdgarSuter@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 03:38:35 -0400
Subject: irresponsible journalism
A more obscure magazine, Edging West, has a guide to "essential" camping
equipment. In the section entitled "the gun," the author repeatedly exhorts
the reader to get drunk and handle a gun unsafely.  It is a disgusting,
puerile, snide, and iresponsible parody.  Feel free to read it at your
newsstand - again, don't buy it - then give Edging West 
its due feedback.
Edgar A. Suter MD
National Chair, Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research Inc.
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Forwarded message:
Subj:    irresponsible journalism
Date:    96-07-21 13:52:41 EDT
From:    EdgarSuter
To:      EdgingWest
CC:      EdgarSuter
Dear Editor,
Your repeated puerile suggestions to mix alcohol and unsafe gun handling
should haunt you.  Avoiding the mix of alcohol and guns has been one of the
most important tenets of the "commandments" of gun safety.
According to the National Safety Council, gun accident fatality rates have
fallen steadily since the dawn of the twentieth century and now hover at an
all time low - no thanks to your irresponsible journalism.  Should we
institute background checks of journalists and waiting periods on stupid
magazine columns.  After all, "if it saves only one life..." the Founders
could not have possibly envisioned the First Amendment as protecting the
firepower of "high-capacity" printing presses or the deadly dangers of
"assault journalism."
Let any excess deaths from a mix of guns and alcohol be on your conscience
and let the plaintiffs' attorney be on your backs.  Our national non-profit
physicians think tank will be there with our amicus curiae brief testifying
to the deadly and moronic irresponsibility of your editors and columnists.
Sincerely,
Edgar A. Suter MD
National Chair, Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research Inc.
a national non-profit 501c(4) physicians think tank
5201 Norris Canyon Road #220
San Ramon CA 94583-5405
voice 510-277-0333
fax 510-277-1568
e-mail EdgarSuter@aol.com
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