Registration of Guns

Re “Cars: Potentially Dangerous, Registration Required; And Guns?,” Jan. 16.

Assemblyman Jack Scott, in his commentary, just further demonstrates how some of our bureaucrats seem to not understand how things really are or what to do.

His proposal of a $25, five-year license and an annual registration fee of $20 per gun is just another example of gouging the law-abiding citizen to further fatten up the coffers for personal agendas. He cites the example of auto registration, which in itself is an outrageously high cost.

We have enough gun laws on the books now and any further constraints will do absolutely nothing to deter gun violence.

If you can’t control the criminal proliferation of illegal drugs, then how could you expect to control the guns in the hands of these very same criminals? Everyone knows that the bureaucrats find it easier to levy burdens on the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of today because it’s for sure they can’t, won’t or are in fear of finding a way to control or levy the criminal.

If Scott and his cohorts really want to stop the gun violence, lock up the criminals, destroy their guns, destroy their drugs and perhaps you will have accomplished something worthwhile. Stop burdening the honest citizen under the guise of ending gun violence.

Scott should concern himself more with the FBI reports that murderers in California are returned to the street to commit more crimes and shootings.

Only the law-abiding register their guns and are printed for the purchase of ammunition--criminals are immune.

No, I am not a member of the NRA but I am a 62-year-old native of Los Angeles County and have watched for years how the bureaucrats continually pat themselves on the back over such worthless and costly proposals.

LOUIS THOMPSON

Woodland Hills