Violence and Gun Control
Recently, a watch store proprietor successfully defended his life and property with a loaded semiautomatic handgun from two (both now permanently former) holdup thugs. On the night of Feb. 27, an off-duty police officer successfully defended his life and property with a loaded semiautomatic handgun from two (one now permanently former) holdup thugs.
In your editorial, readers were informed that our “unending cycle of violence (is) fed by fear and perpetuated by the myth that protection can be found with a loaded gun.”
Yes; until we disarm all those terrible, bloodthirsty shopkeepers, police officers and the like who arrogantly persist in perpetuating the myth of personal and public protection via a firearm, we will never break our nation’s cycle of violence.
Heaven forbid that criminals should “fear” swift and certain armed retaliation from their victims!
VINCENT BURKE, Fullerton
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