Dear Editor, In a newspaper article of Sept. 4, publisher Tim Timmons tells us about the epidemic of senseless school shootings. He says, “young people and a teacher were killed a week ago in a Minneapolis school setting. An 8-year-old and a 10-year old died and 18 others were injured.”
To this, Mr. Timmons asks, “What else do we need to know? Will taking guns away really solve this problem? Will taking cars away solve drunk driving? Will taking No. 2 pencils away solve poor test scores? Will taking my fork away solve my weight issue? The problem is not a gun. The problem is people.”
It’s true that people, SICK people, are the problem. But I would propose that the car/ pencil/fork analogy is very flawed. Making guns harder for the wrong sorts of people to get, might well help the situation. Nobody is calling for “taking away guns” as a massive drastic solution.
