Matt McWilliams’ recent column, “Government Wants to Disarm Us and Monopolize Guns,” is nothing but a ball of cud, premasticated by the National Rifle Association and handed to us to swallow. And it is replete with errors.

McWilliams states that “Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, all gun control freaks, killed 15 million of their own people.” Hitler armed the entire German nation, including teen-agers. Mussolini never killed millions of his own people.

You make this assertion because your NRA handlers want you to spread the aging hypothesis that governments that control guns end up killing their own people. How silly can you get? Canada, Japan, England, to name only a few countries, have very strict gun controls. They have never killed their own people, and they have no gun homicides to speak of.

McWilliams states, “It has become nearly impossible for the average American family to possess a gun and protect his home.” This statement is not only ungrammatical, it is outrageous. We have more guns than we have people. Mr. McWilliams, if you or one of your friends find it impossible to obtain a gun I will happily drive you to any of the many local gun dealers or gunsmiths. I might sell you one of mine.

It just dawned on me: I served in the office of the secretary of defense, with 35 years of service counting combat time. I and several million other of your friends and neighbors are the government, the very government that has you cowering in fear.

Don’t just stand there. Join a militia and attack Fort Bragg.

H. Adrian Osborne

Pinehurst