Background Checks
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Re your “Background Checks” editorial (Aug. 14): You refer to the legality of the extensive police background checks on homeless people who apply for welfare benefits with the conclusion: “The investigations ostensibly are to prevent welfare fraud. It’s a cruel approach that, even if legal, is so abhorrent that it should be abandoned.”
In contrast, you support police background checks on millions of law-abiding citizens who want to own guns for legitimate sporting and self-defense reasons.
Is this your idea of justice for all?
CHLOE M. BARR
Laguna Beach
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