Just a little research goes a very long way

Another one of ‘those’ emails came the other day. The “ohmygawdthey’regonnatakemygunsaway!” rants, and it had all the hallmarks of urban legend, but the well-meaningsender was guilty of a lack of due diligence,launching it to his usual blast list anyway.

The funny irony of this one was,not only did the mainstream sites, like Snopes.com and About.com: Urban Legends, say it was complete baloney, but I easily found a wealth of fringe Second Amendment sites that said exactly the same thing.

As usual, it took me less than five minutes to find this out. What I can’t understand is why friends, and in this case one who is retired law enforcement, couldn’t take the same deep breath before hitting the Foward button.

Here’s the email, so you’ll recognize it:

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