Always the sensational

On Feb. 8 I searched the Bangor Daily News to see what kind of coverage would be given to the 400,000 trigger locks that were found to be mostly defective by the government and that has been distributed to the public.

I finally found a tiny article in your “Spotlight” section that stated, “Most gun locks fail safety test, report says.”

I did find a half-page coverage of the murder-suicide in Patten on the front page and a quarter-page photo of a state trooper holding the shotgun murder weapon.

You people have your priorities mixed up; always the sensational.

I can’t remember how many editorials you wrote about the blessings of trigger locks or how many legislators and law enforcement officials sounded off about this wonderful device and how many lives it would save.

In the end, many law enforcement agencies and others made a free distribution of these trigger locks. Didn’t any of you people think to test these devices before giving them to people?

When the first little kid gets one of these trigger locks off a gun and blows away a neighbor’s child, which one of you will step forward and say, “the fault is mine”?

The gun control fanatics in this state who know little or nothing about firearms will have their day in court, I am sure – answering lawsuits over and over again.

Donald E. Saunders

Ellsworth