Gun control not answer to schoolyard violence
To the editor,
In response to Gregory Schneider and all the liberals in this country who wish to use the horrific tragedy in Littleton to advance the notion that we need more gun control, I must take this chance to respectfully disagree. First of all, every law abiding, responsible American adult has the right to own a gun. Second, no gun control law would have kept Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who planned their massacre a year in advance, from getting their hands on guns (let alone propane tanks and pipes).
The effect of gun control laws is to keep guns out of the hands of responsible adults while criminals keep using their illegally obtained guns to murder, rob and rape.
A nation where only the military, police, and criminals have guns is not a very safe country. Just look at the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. If some of those people had guns and were willing to stop Serbian troops from invading their homes, the United States would almost certainly not be at war in Yugoslavia.
If you need another example, consider the fact that Switzerland was the only country that Hitler did not dare occupy in World War II. This is because nearly every single home in Switzerland was equipped with guns.
If only the 20 million-plus who died under Joseph Stalin's brutal Communist regime or the six million-plus Jews murdered by the Nazis or the 20 million-plus murdered by the Chinese Communists between 1948 and 1952 alone had been equipped with guns, some of the greatest tragedies in human history could have been avoided.
William Hockings
Physics and mathematics junior
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