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The Consequences of Gun Laws
Josey1
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The Consequences of Gun Laws
Friday, May 3, 2002; Page A26
The recent shooting rampage in Germany [front page, April 27] demonstrated two things:
(1) Any "gun-free zone" is a place where no one will be able to fight back (with a gun) effectively, whether it's a school or business.
(2) Even with strict gun control, guns can be obtained by those who really want them. In Germany, it's easy to travel to the Czech Republic or Poland and bring back a gun. Guns can even be made at home.
It's too bad so many people fail to realize that gun laws restrict only law-abiding citizens. Criminals do not obey laws -- that's why they're criminals.
JAMES YANIK
Casselberry, Fla.
After the massacre of 17 in a high school in Erfurt, Germany, the Associated Press reported: "Two hours after the attack, Germany's parliament approved a government proposal to tighten weapons laws."
Three years after 15 were killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. -- to name but one mass murder perpetrated by and against high school kids in this country -- conservative members of Congress still can't see their way to upsetting the National Rifle Association money trough and passing anything like useful gun control.
How many more must die?
Will Congress ever get past its semantic nitpicking of the Second Amendment and accept that rights for a civilian militia in the 18th century do not apply to a 21st century nation?
JOHN-MANUEL ANDRIOTE
Washington http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24684-2002May2.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Friday, May 3, 2002; Page A26
The recent shooting rampage in Germany [front page, April 27] demonstrated two things:
(1) Any "gun-free zone" is a place where no one will be able to fight back (with a gun) effectively, whether it's a school or business.
(2) Even with strict gun control, guns can be obtained by those who really want them. In Germany, it's easy to travel to the Czech Republic or Poland and bring back a gun. Guns can even be made at home.
It's too bad so many people fail to realize that gun laws restrict only law-abiding citizens. Criminals do not obey laws -- that's why they're criminals.
JAMES YANIK
Casselberry, Fla.
After the massacre of 17 in a high school in Erfurt, Germany, the Associated Press reported: "Two hours after the attack, Germany's parliament approved a government proposal to tighten weapons laws."
Three years after 15 were killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. -- to name but one mass murder perpetrated by and against high school kids in this country -- conservative members of Congress still can't see their way to upsetting the National Rifle Association money trough and passing anything like useful gun control.
How many more must die?
Will Congress ever get past its semantic nitpicking of the Second Amendment and accept that rights for a civilian militia in the 18th century do not apply to a 21st century nation?
JOHN-MANUEL ANDRIOTE
Washington http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24684-2002May2.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878