Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 22:46:24 -0700 Subject: Mark Morford: Charlton Heston's Last Sneer To: vk@sfgate.com-nospam From: John McEnroe Dear Mr. Morford After reading your editorial, "Charlton Heston's Last Sneer," in the San Francisco Gate, I understand what is wrong with California...........Californians like you who write columns, and readers who believe columns like yours and watch fictional movies masquerading as Academy Award winning documentaries. Bowling for Columbine is to facts as drinking is to sobriety, but I guess Californians prefer watching a fake documentary movie to reading the dry statistics of the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Justice or the International Crime Victims Survey from Leiden University. Whatever you do, don't let your readers know that the three most violent countries in the industrialized world are Australia, Great Britain, and Canada, because it might shake their faith in the Boxer-Feinstein-Davis-Schumer-Clinton-Kennedy Victims Disarmament policies. It would also disappoint your fictional baby-eating, gun-toting, slack-jawed Neanderthal NRA member, because the United States didn't even make it into the top 10 list of most violent countries! Say, can I get an easy job like yours where I make up stuff and get paid to write about it? It takes too much time and effort to actually do research and quote facts! Sincerely.......well, not quite...... John McEnroe One of the tens of thousands of volunteer NRA firearms safety instructors who spend countless dollars and hours teaching families how to safely use firearms for recreation and crime prevention. Portland, Oregon Refuse to be a Victim Home Firearms Safety Basic Pistol Basic Shotgun Reloading Personal Protection in the Home