Letters: Gun nuttiness in Aurora
Re “Aurora, one year later,” July 20
One counter-protester near a ceremony in Aurora, Colo., carried a sign reading “No atrocity/crime trumps my gun rights.”
Perhaps I am naive to think that the person carrying that sign might reevaluate his or her attitude toward gun rights if his or her parent, sibling or child had been murdered in that Aurora theater, or at Sandy Hook Elementary School, or at Columbine High School. Or accidentally killed in his or her own home, and with his or her own weapon.
If the sign-bearer did not reevaluate his or her attitude within the context of such a personal tragedy, then I understand why those of us promoting rational regulations controlling access to all types of weapons in this country — including those with a reasonable place only within a military context — are doomed to failure.
Jana K. Shaker
Riverside
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