Harriet Cady suffered an awful and heartbreaking loss of her son due to a drugged driver (Monitor, June 7). However, from her own personal tragedy she draws a horribly wrong conclusion that guns should not be regulated.
Cady asserts that because DUI car accidents occur car and drug regulation is a failure. From this she concludes that gun regulation won’t work. First, her premise is wrong because car accident deaths have decreased thanks to safety technology and other changes, according to the National Safety Council. Car regulation in the form of required safety technology works.
To compare that to guns, let’s improve safety by getting assault rifles out of the hands of 18-21 year olds, at least, if not out of the hands of all civilians. People can keep their hand guns and hunting rifles but the title of “assault rifle” says it all.
Second, Cady sarcastically says we should take away all cars since regulation hasn’t prevented all death and injury caused by car accidents. Gun control won’t eliminate every gun death. But as many people have pointed out, almost every other Western democratic nation has stricter gun laws and far fewer gun deaths and injuries than our country.
Corey Belobrow
Concord