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Push for gun control

Wed., Feb. 1, 2012

The Jan. 16 letter from J. M. Lyons (“Rainier shooting unrelated to law”) used the extremely tragic murder of the Mt. Rainier National Park ranger for the purpose of, once again, justifying the National Rifle Association, and the right to bear arms. Hopefully, her grieving family will not see this letter.

The very overused cliche, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is not always accurate, especially when there are AK-47s (only purpose: to kill people) right here in Spokane, in closets, under beds, in auto trunks, etc.

Why doesn’t the National Rifle Association power a long and hard campaign to keep weapons out of the hands of the wrong people? And eliminate their availability? This would truly justify its existence!

Joseph Rudmann

Spokane

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