Gun Photo Backfires
This letter is in reference to the Ventura County Life issue of Feb. 23 and specifically to the two pictures of a gun pointed directly at the camera.
I first became an ordnance officer in the U. S. Army in 1941. I have had a number of assignments, my last active duty being in Korea. All the training in gun handling I have received and given emphasized the point that you should never point a gun toward someone you don’t intend to kill. If this advice were emphasized with everyone who handles a gun, it would save a lot of lives.
Then a photographer takes a picture which perhaps thousands of people see and completely undermines the safety training that some have received and teaches some that have never received training that they don’t have to worry about where they point or play with a gun.
Guns are designed to kill, and they do. Unfortunately, most of the people they kill in this country didn’t deserve to die.
KEITH R. BRONSON
Oxnard
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