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Careful with the eighth law

Wed., Aug. 21, 2019

Care must be taken in crafting the eighth gun law that will stop massacres in this country. On average, the shooters have broken seven laws to commit their vile acts. The rage right now is adding “red flag” anti-gun laws that will track down a potential murderer before he or she acts.

A nickel to a doughnut that I’ll bet all three recent mass murderers (Gilroy, California; Dayton, Ohio; and El Paso, Texas) have in common is an expunged juvenile record. We need to change our juvenile laws so that the community at large and the police in general know about these people who at a very young age have exhibited sociopathic behavior.

John Bunch

Mead

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