There was a
letter to the editor in today's JG that commended Dr Crawford for pushing the smoking ban and asked that they next take up banning handguns within city limits:
Now let’s take on the gun problem. Make it illegal to possess a handgun within the city limits. Law enforcement personnel initially could be allowed to carry guns, but eventually even that would be unnecessary.
This is literally the
stupidest idea I have heard in a long, long time. Does anyone actually believe that the police would never need guns? What kind of utopian fantasy world is this person living in and why would the JG print this ridiculous letter?
Let me help all the gun control advocates out there realize something about laws in general.
Laws are only good at controlling the behavior of law abiding citizens. People that commit homicides do not care what the gun laws are and never will. To disarm the citizenry in response to a small number of lawbreakers is not only unconstitutional but futile as well.
This is a topic I could go on and on about and maybe in the future I'll discuss my opinion in more detail. For now, suffice to say that I strenuously object with the letter...
