7/14/00 Editor, N.H.: The mothers’ rally for

strict. gun control in Washington, D.C, and the

subsequent shoe exhibit on the sidewalk leading

to the Wildwood Park pavillion were touchy-feely

events. Thought was not involved. But without

thinking we are like reeds in the wind easily

manipulated to act against our own self interest.

We are supposed to willingly disarm ourselves

while the criminals will never surrender one pis-

tol. Among the shoes collected were also shoes of

people who killed themselves with a gun. But if a

gun were not available, the black despair which

drives people to suicide would easily let them find

other means of escape. I can kill myself with a

rope, but I can't defend myself with a rope. The

pistol is a great equalizer which even gives a petite

women a chance against an intruder.

In Switzerland every able-bodied man has to

have a gun in the house. There is no gun violence

as we have here. The slogan of the NRA is: "Guns

don't kill people, people kill people." That is a

shortcut for saying: The mind controls the trigger

finger which discharges the gun which kills. If a

gun is not available, bare hands can commit vio-

lence as the women found out who were abused

in the Central Park of New York during the Puerto

Rico Pride Day.

I want everybody who is for gun control not to

look at the end of the chain - the gun - but at

the beginning of the chain - the mind. Alan

Dershowitz, Jewish society lawyer, in his book

"The Vanishing American Jew," has this to say:

"Today this (Jewish) influence is even more

apparent, as individual Jews dominate television,

film, book publishing, newspaper, magazine

advertising, public relations and other opinion-

shaping businesses." It is these public opinion-

shaping businesses, our culture makers which

make a tremendous profit of sex and violence.

The profits of the gunmakers pale in compari-

son. It is these public opinion-shaping businesses

which relentlessly pour sex and violence into our

minds and sex and violence will come out. I dare

.the Mothers for Gun Control to take on the real

culprits. Mothers, fight the wind at the source, we

are already reaping the whirlwind.