Letter: Gun ownership rules too loose
Handguns Credit: Chicago Tribune
The tragic Medford pharmacy massacre illustrates how lacking and flawed gun control is in this country ["Laffer replaces attorney," News, July 8]. David Laffer, the suspect, is a troubled and unstable person who should never have had a gun permit nor owned a gun. There are too many guns in the hands of people like him.
The National Rifle Association, the powerful lobbying organization, claims that guns don't kill people -- people kill people. Yes, people with a gun in hand. How many of the pharmacy victims would have died if the assailant had been armed with only a knife or a club? Perhaps lacking a gun, he would not have attempted the robbery. The NRA does a great disservice by its strong advocacy of Second Amendment rights.
The framers of our Constitution lacked vision and created a much-too-liberal license for people to own and bear arms. And we pay for it every day.
Joe Levorchick, St. James
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