OP ED Articles
Linked on this page are the articles and letters prepared and submitted to the news media and a series of letters prepared to respond to Maryland Politicians. Most of them have not been published, but the articles record ideas and work.
Maryland’s Automated Ballistic Fingerprinting IBIS System Wasn't Used to Convict a Murderer
On April 2, 2005 the Washington Post published the article “Ballistics Database Yields 1st Conviction, Oxon Hill Man Tied To Murder Weapon” asserting that Maryland’s ballistic fingerprinting database was successful in convicting a murderer. This reply analyzes the official transcripts of this murder trial where police testimony and a time line of evidence development contradicts that assertion.
Response to a Washington Post Editorial on Banning Long Guns
The Washington Post published an editorial calling for the Maryland legislature to ban semiautomatic long guns and suggesting that the lies told by the Violence Policy Center on this issue were not important. This reply uses the Post's logic to show their real position is for a ban on all guns and gives our reasons for not banning these guns.
Responses to an Article by Del. Richard Weldon
Del. Weldon published an article objecting to certain arguments offered by both sides of the gun control debate. At a minimum, his article leaves the impression that Del. Weldon does not support the right to keep and bear arms. Del. Weldon did respond to assert he would "vote against ANY attempt to restrict the rights of law abiding gun owners ...." The following articles were written as messages to Del. Weldon and certain Republican leaders to help their understanding of gun control issues and the rights of law abiding gun owners.
Prepared 10/16/03 as lead-off message to Del. Weldon. This message addresses history of our Constitution,
recent developments relating to the fight for the right to keep and bear arms, and some recent Brady activities.
Prepared 10/16/03 with documentation on misbehavior of Sarah Brady, and a short history of the development
of professional police forces.
Prepared 10/20/03 to identify the particular way Constitutionally protected rights are protected by courts.
Prepared 10/20/03 to discuss more history of the right to keep and bear arms, the role of the militia, modern uses
of the militia and some of the political initiatives by voters showing they support that Constitutional Right.
Prepared 10/26/03 to present practical reasons why gun control doesn't reduce crime and to show why bias and
deception by gun-control advocates make it difficult to understand gun control effects.
Prepared 11/3/03 to discuss several studies that show gun control doesn't reduce violence and several more
that show gun control increases violence.
Prepared 11/17/03 to discuss crime and how gun control is used by politicians to disguise the fact that they
are doing nothing about crime and how extremes of gun control is working in Britain and Canada.
General Articles
2004 "shall-issue" policy bill HB859/SB137. Spoken script introduction to the testimony is on the first page.)
to respond to articles and letters by the siblings (Bryan Miller and Lisa Miller Delity) about the killing of their
brother FBI agent Mike Miller in which they misstate the firearm used in the shooting)
respond to a Baltimore Sun Article quoting the Violence Policy Center "Officer Down" Report) and a second letter
to respond to a Washington Post editorial calling for the ban on semi-automatic rifles (and admitting that the
VPC "Officer Down" contained some misstatements).
Handguns on Homicides, Philip F. Lee, Prepared 3/10/02 as testimony to the Maryland Legislature on SB223,
Revised 8/30/03 & 4/24/06 and added at request of Col. Mark Wilson, US Army Ret. as an example analysis
showing distortions published by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as gun control research.
a Maryland Legislator concerning a Violence Policy Center report on children killed with guns)
(Responds to an Editorial by former Deputy Attorney General, Eric Holder published on Sept. 25, 2001.)
(Discusses the effectiveness of proposed Air Marshal Program in defeating a terrorist attack like that of
Sept. 11, 2001.)
(Debunks HCI President Michael Barnes argument for gun control because rate decreases in control states
is more than in free states.)
(Debunks conclusions of Senator Schumer used in article and based on ATF crime gun trace statistics.)
(Identifies some Supreme Court Decisions stating the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as an individual right.)
by ATF gun trace methodology which increases gun trafficking estimates.
Updated by Phil Lee on 4/24/06. Contact pflee at wdn dot com (sorry for being obscure, but web mail address scavenge programs make this practice necessary).
![[Powered by Google]](images/poweredby.gif){kind=small} |