Why so many guns?

I have just read articles about two innocent young men in the July 26 Times: one about Vincent Martinez being shot in his Oxnard frontyard and another about a father donating a rare Buddha in memory of his son, Chester Chang, who was shot to death. Because stories like this appear every day, every single day, I have just one question: Why do we allow people who have no reason to own them to have guns?

Priscilla Fourer

Palos Verdes Estates