Letter To The Editor Misrepresents Personal Protection With Firearms

By Tom Knighton

I read a lot of letters to the editor. I read a handful each and every day, all about gun rights and gun control. These letters are routinely folks who are holding debates about the Second Amendment in the old-school manner in which those debates used to be had over a distance, something we all get to do a lot quicker and a lot easier than back then.

Usually, I don’t bother with them. After all, someone else will be along to reply.

However, sometimes someone makes an argument that all but begs me to make a response. Such an example popped up at the L.A. Times this sometime yesterday, titled “Letters to the Editor: Gun rights supporters still can’t explain how firearms make us safer.”

The letter writer claims that “we can sleep reasonably securely at night, knowing that most criminals are too afraid to break into an occupied home.” This is a weak defense. Also, the statement that “a firearm also enhances safety for the disabled, weak, old or sick” is inane and cannot be equated with firing a weapon in a public setting.

It’s not easy to accurately fire a handgun, much less in the dark, when …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms