Heston and Guns

Re “Heston Faces His Illness Squarely,” Aug. 18: It is unpleasant to hear that anyone has Alzheimer’s. But the outpouring of sympathy for Charlton Heston is larger than he deserves. How many millions of guns has he sold, or made it possible for people to buy? How many thousands of Americans might be alive today had he used his influence to remove rather than put guns in our hands and homes?

When the next depressed kid shoots himself with his dad’s handy revolver, will Moses weep? When the next drunken, angry husband shoots his wife with his handy pistol, will he weep? When the next sick boy enters his school’s cafeteria with his dad’s handy guns and shoots down other kids, will he weep?

George Clark

Lake Forest