Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [m--et--o] at [brtph126.bnr.ca] (Myron Petro P030)
Subject: Re: How Many Crimes Per "Average" Criminal? (W
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 12:46:28 GMT

>Todd Tolhurst wrote:
>   The police officers we hire to protect us likewise undergo
>a background check.  Can we be sure that they are not violent
>criminals?  No, we cannot.  But we can be reasonably confident,
>given a thorough background investigation.

Back around 1980 or 81 a person by the name of George Banks was hired 
as a prison guard in Pa. one of his issue weapons was a Colt AR-15. 
He later used this weapon to kill both of his wives and 11 or 12 of 
his kids. 

My point to this is the state didn't do a very good job of checking this 
person, he had spent time in a Pa. prison for armed robbery . Yet they gave 
him a weapon and ammo. 

Did the media blame the state and ask for an investigation ? No, instead 
they screamed for more gun laws against honest citizens with exemptions
for police officers. This was when I became convinced the media had a 
private agenda, with no regard for facts or logic.

Anti-gun people will ignore the fact that the background check that a 
citizen goes through is the same that a police officer goes through. 
They will continue to put the police high on a pedestal above the average 
law abiding citizen, until they get all the guns away from the honest 
people then the pedestal will come crashing down. But it may be too late. 

Myron Petro
NRA, USPSA
DVC y'all
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