Handguns Aren’t the Problem
The Oct. 17 article regarding the shooting death of the 8-month-old in Laguna Niguel was tragic.
Reading the article left one with the impression that there was something wrong with people who kept loaded guns for home defense and that children should not be allowed to visit the homes of those who do.
A similar report involving a swimming pool would not have quoted neighbors saying that they would never let their children play at the home of a friend with a pool or that they were surprised that their neighbors had a pool at all.
The problem was not that there was a handgun in the home, but that the person holding it had no firearms experience and that it was discharged without a full appreciation for the results of its use.
It is certain that the comments of neighbors would have been different had there been a home intruder that the woman stopped or if an unarmed woman and her child were horribly murdered.
MICHAEL THOMAS
El Toro
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