Rev. Jim Laporte sent a message to Edward W. Stack Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dicks Sporting Goods Email Address that said:
I was appalled to see that you have taken the message of the people who are trying to attack our 2nd Amendment rights as your own.
I have contacted everyone I know and made them aware of this.
Penalizing millions of law abiding citizens for the acts of a few evil people is the wrong approach and leads to an unthinkable conclusion which we have seen before in history.
To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. …
For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals.
Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding
Rev. Jim Laporte
