Here’s a letter to the editor that pissed me off:
Against guns at Sugarloaf
As 10-year residents of Frederick County, we moved to the agricultural area near Sugarloaf Mountain to raise our family and livestock. While I am not opposed to most special exceptions in the resource conservation and agricultural zones, I feel the location of a shooting range for military and law enforcement is suitable only in an industrial area where noise will not be an issue.
The scale of this proposed facility is wrong. The residents of our area have businesses or hobbies that are geared toward “quiet enjoyment.” These include PD Dye Golf, numerous horse boarding riding facilities, children’s summer camps and Sugarloaf Mountain visitors.
As a voting Republican and gun owner, I value my right to bear arms, but as large property owner and a commercial real estate agent specializing in land sales, I can speak from experience on property values. If approved, the gun range will dramatically impact farm and rural home prices within the noise radius of the range.
Buyers who are few and far between needing farms and rural homes will go elsewhere to purchase properties. This will force owners to sell below true market value in order to make a transaction.
DAWN FURMAN GORDON
Frederick
Source
Here’s a few questions for Dawn, if she cares to answer.
1. Do slaughterhouses and pig farms hurt property values?
2. Does horse droppings on a country road bother you?
3. Where exactly do you shoot your guns? At home? Are you afraid of your bullet hitting a neighbor? Is your home safer than a gun range?
4. Do you hate our cops and military? Do you want them to die because they couldn’t get their gun training where they live?
5. Republicans are supposed to be pro-business, why are you against the tax revenues a gun range will deliver?
Frankly Dawn, I don’t see why you care. You’re a broker, you’ll get commission regardless. What you just did with your letter to the editor is inform every potential pro-gun client that you hate our 2nd Amendment. Without gun ranges, what’s the point of keeping and bearing arms? I’m not a gun collector (although I respect them), my guns are not tools for me to just look at, if I can’t shoot my guns, what’s the point of owning them?
