By Ron Lowe Santa Monica Have you no pride? Editor:
Reading the daily headlines it seems like gun violence and its attendant mass killings are becoming a more common occurrence. The rest of the free world has pretty well solved this dilemma through a stringent control of guns in their countries. There are only a few hundred murders each year attributed to guns in countries that have taken on an enlightened gun strategy. America remains locked into a gun fantasy reminiscent of the wild west.
Gun advocates keep talking about more laws, or laws already on the books, as the solution to this evolving problem. Gun laws already existing will not stop the carnage in a nation awash in a flood of guns.
Exasperating the murderous rampage are cowboys in the Republican Party and NRA who want to arm more Americans (crimes wouldn’t occur if everyone has a gun in their pocket) and allow more people to carry concealed guns into churches, schools and malls.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 27, 2008. Read the original PDF.