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I was amused to read the letter in the May 15 edition calling for "limiting access to guns in our country." What a joke? The anti-gun writer "cherry picked" European nations and said they had fewer mass shooters. Ok, but they did have mass shooters in all those nations despite NO Second Amendment gun rights. The writer then went on to lament our American, "moth to a flame" fascination with guns. Why did the letter writer omit Switzerland where there is a gun in EVERY home by law? Switzerland has the lowest gun crime rate in the world and few mass shooters. Why? Shouldn't guns equal crime?
The anti-gun crowd like to present their gun confiscation program by alluding to such appealing statements like "gun safety," "common sense gun legislation," and other such lulling statements. Ok, so how will ANY of their proposed restrictions have Prevented Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook School mass shooter? He was a 20-year-old with mental issues. His mother bought two semi-automatic firearms to "bond" with her son. He murdered her, stole her guns, went to Sandy Hook and killed 26 people. What LAW would have prevented that? What law prevents anything?
Another favorite gun confiscation crowd talking point is calling for "Expanded Background Checks." Why? Every criminal knows he/she CANNOT pass a background check now in place at legal gun shops, so they do NOT TRY! The bad guys have a "clean" (no record) friend, relative, etc., go buy a gun for them, fill out the Federal Form 4473, get the gun and then give it to the bad guy. In 2021 the BATFE feds discovered 30,000+ such "Straw Purchasers" and only 16 were federally prosecuted! Why not 30,000+? The reason is the gun ban crowd is anti-gun and not anti-criminal.
I am a retired lawman who worked in Boston for 26 years. Massachusetts is the gun control "Mecca" of the world. Honest gun owners have many hoops and hurdles to own their guns. Next door in New Hampshire or Vermont, the gun controls are aimed at bad guys and the crime rate is far lower. If a New Hampshire, or Vermont gun owner has a "moth to a flame" liking for his gun collection, so what?
RON BENJAMIN
Mansfield
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