Too many guns
Re “Innocent Bystander Is Shot, Badly Wounded in Westwood Restaurant,” Dec. 28
Los Angeles Police Department detectives should stop using the phrase “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when a bystander is shot. A child walking to a corner grocery store, a man driving home from work and a young person out at a nice restaurant are not “in the wrong place.” The problem is not the citizens going about their business but the availability of handguns to every hothead with a grudge, and the inability of our society to do anything about it.
BARRY WENDELL
North Hollywood
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