Would-be robber flees broom-wielding patrons

Police say broom-wielding customers beat and fended off an armed robber who tried to rob a Somerset Dollar General.

[Unit1069]

Hello, Mr. Oberle,

I read your editorial calling for firearms dealers to quit offering the SKS rifles for sale to law-abiding citizens.

Your editorial deemed the SKS an "assault rifle".

I purchased an SKS rifle in the mid 1990s when the federal Assault Weapons Ban was law.

Here's an opportunity for you to demonstrate to the public that journalists have professional standards instead of political agendas to promote. You can pen and publish a correction that points out an SKS is not an "assault rifle" under the former federal statute, contrary to your original faulty assertion.

Are there standards and ethics at your newpaper, Mr. Oberle?

Regards,
Unit1069

[MCR]

Looks like Mr. Tall came up a little short!

[Dave Robertson]

I think those same gun dealers should offer special deals on AR15's and 1911's "in remembrance" of our fallen soldiers in this war and wars past. Maybe 30-round mags too.

And let me be the first to say that if the dealer where the SKS originally came gets sued, I'll gladly donate to his legal defense fund.