The letter by Miss Safford in the Nov. 6 Kent Reporter (“Let’s do more on gun control”), expresses compassionate feelings but is totally impractical, and at odds with the evidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Passing more laws does not enforce any current law. Criminals violate the law; that is what they do. Thus old or new laws have no effect on the criminal. Enforcement of the law is necessary for a law to be effective.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
She cites school shootings, including Sandy Hook Elementary School. Sandy Hook was a “gun free zone,” i.e., no guns allowed, yet it did not prevent the shooting. One armed guard at the door would have saved all of the students.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A study (www.beliefnet.com) was published in 2007, titled: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” The study came from the Harvard Journal of Law. The report “found some surprising things.” Essentially it found a near inverse relationship to gun ownership and gun crime. In the USA, cities with extremely high murder rates have the most restrictive gun control laws.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Aggressive action to stop a shooter is a far better solution than writing a law, which all criminals will ignore. Intervention and action to take out the shooter works.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Alek Skarlatos and his two friends saved many lives by taking out a terrorist killer on a French train. Ironically, he went to the Oregon college Miss Stafford cites.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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