Two Compton Officers Slain
No armed citizens came to help Compton Officers Michael Burrell and James Wayne MacDonald because Los Angeles imprisons even the harmless for having a gun in the car.
James Brady wants to also ban victims of attack from buying a gun for self-defense within seven days. Disarming the 99.95% of us who don’t kill anything helps only the killers and drug dealers. Ask a street cop if you care.
TIMOTHY D. McCULLY, Palos Verdes
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