Rewriting of Gun Law

In your article (“Lungren, Roberti OK Rewriting of ’89 Gun Bill,” Part A, Aug. 29) the word flawed was used at least five times in describing the 1989 Roberti/Roos Assault Rifle Law. Flawed is without a doubt the understatement of the century considering the severity of the penalty, a felony, for not registering a legally purchased rifle.

Mistake is probably a better word to describe this law because the very people it is supposedly targeted at are not even required to register.

Diverting scarce law enforcement resources away from real crime to hunt down and prosecute honest citizens whose only crime is owning a particular brand name of rifle is a mistake so obvious that it must be intentional.

They are hammering the public with meaningless gun control to hide their failure to deal with crime effectively and those politicians who push the hardest usually have the weakest record of all.

Of this former Assemblyman Mike Roos and Senate President Pro Tem David Roberti are guilty in the first-degree.

MICHAEL A. PACER, Glendora