We as a nation experience approximately 12,000 deaths a year, people being shot by gun holders, plus some 19,000 suicides by guns every year.
Surely enactment of controls will not eradicate those figures, but neither can we ignore them. I have never in my life smoked, but we might ask - how many workers lost their job as a result of the campaign to reduce smoking> Where are those legislators who so aggressively went after the officers and managers of the cigarette companies? Many of them were accused of knowingly producing a product that caused deaths.
Why weren’t those same charges made against producers of weapons that can cause multiple deaths and ammunition that can pierce bulletproof vests usually worn by police?
Dominic L. Giulietti
New Haven