Rebutting the pro-gun line 'weapons aren't the issue, criminals are'
Letters to the Editor
Sept. 4, 2023
To the editor: One in all your readers acknowledged that weapons usually are not the issue, criminals are.
Properly, what number of gun killings are dedicated by individuals who weren’t criminals but? What number of weren’t criminals till that they had shot a couple of individuals?
What number of had been merely drunk or too younger to manage their tempers? What number of had been in a home dispute? What number of had been suicides? What number of had been kids who received their palms on a gun that their mother and father legally owned?
These wouldn’t occur if individuals didn’t have quick access to weapons. Training about weapons is just not adequate in most of those instances.
Do not let ideology obscure the fact of what quick access to weapons prices us.
Rita Skinner, Riverside
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To the editor: A letter author complains about your use of the time period “gun violence.” He claims that individuals in California have an irrational concern of weapons.
Not simply California, but in addition the entire nation has a wholly rational concern of gun violence in locations the place firearms don’t belong: colleges, church buildings, grocery shops, malls, eating places, live shows, nightclubs and hair salons.
The publics proper to really feel protected when visiting these venues is being trampled by those that insist that the proper to bear arms supersedes all others.
Our proper to something ends the place it interferes with the rights of others.
Kathy Harty, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: Everybody appears to be lacking the actual explanation for gun violence solely.
On this fashionable world, there are such a lot of individuals who really feel alone and powerless. However all of them know this one unmistakable fact: “If I’ve a gun, you had higher take note of me.”
Wayne Through, Dana Level
