Federal crime bills are all just a hoax

Are you guys the ones who advise the Keystone Kops in the White House? Your Feb. 12 editorial concerning the GOP crime bill was, if nothing else, amusing.

Of course the Republican crime bill is a hoax, just as President Clinton's crime bill was a hoax. Any federal crime bill is a hoax. Of course most of the crime that affects most of us is under state and local jurisdiction.

But I don't remember your editorials referring to the Clinton bill as a hoax.

I don't remember your referring to the assault weapons ban as being a hoax, as ''60 Minutes'' showed conclusively on a recent program.

The weapons were banned based on how they look, not what they do. Most of the banned weapons have been given slight cosmetic changes, renamed and now are legal to manufacture, sell and purchase even though they function exactly as the ''banned'' weapons functioned. Now that, my friends, is a hoax. I guess you didn't notice that one.

I guess we are so used to lies by the liberals that it has become an exercise in futility to attempt to refute them all. It would be a never-ending task, and, besides, you would have to hire someone to actually recognize the lies.

Tony Moschetti
High Point

News & Record
February 24, 1995