Source: Orange County Register (CA) Contact: http://www.ocregister.com/ Pubdate: Fri, 15 May 1998 DARE WE ASK? I was informed by my son that he was shown a film at Sierra Vista by the DARE officer which was apparently intended to demonstrate the potential horrors of firearm ownership. The film showed a pair of youths getting hold of a handgun belonging to one's parents, terrorizing a local convenience store clerk and then fatally shooting one of the boy's brothers. I did not see the film, so I want to avoid jumping to conclusions, but I am concerned that: The DARE program may have been captured by individuals who intend to use it as a forum for delivering their own social-engineering messages (not so rare in our school system); and DARE is diverting resources from objectives and practices that we all support - the fight against drug abuse - and turning those resources toward objectives that I, and others like me, cannot support. William C. Prentice - Irvine - --- Checked-by: (Joel W. Johnson)