A recent letter (“Parents to blame, not guns, for school violence,” PDN, April 3) is over the top.
This writer reiterates the core tenets of current gun nuttiness in America.
Namely, “guns don’t kill people,” “cars kill more people,” et cetera.
Take a moment and Google: “2½-year-old shoots,” “3-year-old shoots,” “5-year-old,” or other similar searches.
America is full of gun deaths, where an almost infant child killed their 4-year-old brother, father or mother, or another innocent nearby child.
When a 2-, 3- or even a 4-year-old child shoots and kills their parent or sibling — there is no intent, nor any malice.
And the police make no charges — as it’s simply yet another American tragedy.
A 2- or 3-year-old child cannot even comprehend life and death.
Cars are designed for human transport, are built to safety standards, and still are inherently dangerous.
Car deaths are usually accidents.
The Parkland, Fla., tragedy was no accident nor the Las Vegas mass murder.
Let’s stop with the idiocy and address the actual problem.
A loaded semi-automatic modern handgun, lightweight, with a light trigger action, is essentially equivalent to a landmine.
Both designed to kill humans, both only needing the lightest of touch to unleash killing force.
Lying around American homes, tucked under driver’s seats, in purses everywhere are these instruments of the next innocent deaths.
These, and military-derived semi-automatic rifles, AR-15s and others — the most sophisticated personal weapons ever devised — were designed for battlefields, to win wars, to allow an individual to kill as many people as possible in the shortest of time, and do not belong in civilian hands, period.
Tom LaRue,
Carlsborg