‘Now It’s Buy a Gun, Go to Florida’

Only in America, where a strong lobbying group like the NRA which still insists that the “right to bear arms” (to takes up arms in the service of a sovereign or a country) is the same as the “right to own guns” for any reason at all (and without registering them) can something like this happen.

First Burbank, then the City of Los Angeles, and now Santa Monica pass ordinances to outlaw the sale of toy guns that look like real guns because they are dangerous. It seems that our learned representatives think that toy guns look more real and are more dangerous than real guns so that we have to be protected from them.

There is something definitely sick about a society that prohibits the purchase of a toy gun but places little or no restrictions on buying the real thing.

HECTOR SANTOS

Los Angeles