Letter from an angry reader

[BarbC]

I would like to see impossibly tight gun registration laws, but I secretly scoff. Anyone who's honest can get through any registration process we can come up with. Anyone, who's not honest won't bother. The way guns get into the criminal underworld is that they are stolen. That makes registration a useless exercise.

Also just as true now as it was then.

Excellent article.

 

[Doc Nonverbal]

Thank you very much for posting this. It was an excellent read!

 

[Gary]

Excellent. I have tried hard over the years to understand the thinking of an antigunner. They seem to have a pathological hatred of guns. I can think of no other reason why they can see people become victims of the most horrible kinds of violence and continue to oppose them defending themselves.

 

[jkc]

Great post! I remember reading this when it was first published, and being much impressed that was published at all, much less in Esquire, as well as impressed by the author's pragmatic approach to the travials of urban living. If only more people thought like this, and "refuse to be a victim."