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Once again the Dayton Daily News has outdone itself. First their so-called editorial cartoonist, Mike Peters, libels the NRA by drawing a so-called cartoon showing dead kids arranged to spell out "NRA". Then the Dayton Daily News defends this trash as the editorial license to "exaggerate".

Since when is lying an editorial tool? Since when is lying a mere exaggeration? Oops, that's right, the so-called editorialists at the Dayton Daily News are big fans of the perjurer in chief. An exaggeration is anything they want it to be, nothing more, nothing less. Unless, of course, their needs change and it becomes something more or something less.

Like when the DDN criticizes companies for locating in the suburbs, then goes and moves to Warren County, completely outside of the Dayton city limits, even outside of Montgomery County itself! It's lame excuse is that the land isn't polluted (there is still a lot of farmland in Montgomery County that is just as unpolluted) and they can reach their customers faster from the new facility. Right, and their declining subscription rate and encroachment by the Cincinnati Enquirer into Montgomery County have nothing to do with it.

So now the disciples of Goebbles have continued to push their big lie about guns. They need no evidence, they need no logic. Their position is that guns are evil and no facts are going to change their minds. Never mind that denying law-abiding citizens the rights to protect themselves with guns is illogical. Never mind that the ban on all guns near schools merely disarmed the victims. The DDN has an agenda to push, and the facts be damned!

When are gun-grabbers going to realize that they can't overturn the Constitution with lies? The Constitution is not a menu from which you pick and choose the items you like. It is the basis of our laws. If people feel it needs to be changed they must use a Constitutional amendment, not a propaganda campaign designed to make people feel guilty or ashamed for preserving their rights.

A lie is not an editorial. An editorial is an opinion piece, and while the DDN has all the right in the world to be wrong (one that they do exercise frequently) they do not have the right to lie.

It's too bad that something that could be used to educate has instead been turned into a tool of deceit. The problem with the kids who did the shooting at Columbine High wasn't that they had access to guns, it was they didn't have a conscious, or the wisdom to know right from wrong.

Perhaps they read too many editorials that were in reality lies. Perhaps they thought that lying and greater sins were fine as long as you believed that your cause was just and your injuries great enough. Perhaps Mike Peters would be more accurate if the dead kids had spelled out "DDN" instead.

Never mind that the ban on all guns near schools merely disarmed the victims. The DDN has an agenda to push, and the facts be damned!

Since when is lying an editorial tool? Since when is lying a "mere exaggeration"?

When are gun-grabbers going to realize that they can't overturn the Constitution with lies?

A lie is not an editorial!