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EDITORIAL: Guns, bottles and doctors

Get more thugs

to think twice

Kudos to the two off-duty officers who were able to ward off their attackers using their service revolvers ["Cops refuse to be crime victims," News, Oct. 28]. If New York State were willing to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry arms for self-protection, perhaps thugs would think twice before planning their next caper.

Roger Gilmore

Westbury

I...

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