Fireworks and Guns
Your Dec. 23 editorial about fireworks use and the extra precautions required in this fire season prompt me to ask for more caution by cigarette smokers who drive and smoke. I live in a hillside area. My anxiety level rises 100% when I see smokers driving anywhere, but especially through the canyons, flicking live coals, ashes and cigarette butts out their car windows. It only takes a little ember to ignite a dry hillside and cause tremendous pain and devastation.
JAN CHERNOFF
Encino
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Authorities have warned us about the dangers of using fireworks during New Year’s celebrations. What about guns? In a society awash in a sea of guns, who is going to monitor those who shoot for the joy and “hell of it”?
How many will die because of random gunfire, and who among us will be able to warn shooters, “Don’t drink and shoot”? Public safety has been compromised and left to chance, because of a misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
RUTH ROSEN
Santa Monica
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