WHOM DO YOU TRUST -- SCHOLARS OR CELEBRITIES?

      In last week's FAX Alert (Vol. 6, No. 22), we reported HCI had taken out an ad in USA Today promoting their anti-gun agenda, which was clearly an effort to influence Congress to support the recent assaults on gun shows. This week, a letter with 290 signatures was delivered to Congress in opposition to more gun control. In contrast to HCI's ad, however, the signatories of this letter were scholars, not celebrities.

      Organized by Professor John Lott of the University of Chicago, economists, law professors, and criminologists joined together to point out the fact that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens act as a deterrent to crime, and to state that the recent proposals by Bill Clinton and others are ill-advised.

      We can only hope that, when it comes to deciding crime and constitutional issues, Congress will choose to listen to experts, not entertainers.

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