After reading all the letters to the editor about the pending gun legislation, I really felt I had to write.

I see a lot of statistics that previous gun control writers have used to buttress their position. Statistics can be manipulated and massaged to show almost anything.

Here are the facts, readily verifiable by anyone. Six states already have the same legislation pending in Augusta. The states are Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Vermont, Wyoming and New Hampshire. I don’t know of any civil mayhem or anarchy in any of those states from having that freedom to constitutionally carry a gun without a permit. Are we in Maine less responsible or mature than the populations of these other states? Less able to handle our freedoms, more childlike?

It is also interesting that crime in these states is low and yet gun ownership is high. Could there be any correlation there?

Twenty other states are also pursuing the same general legislation as Maine. The gun control lobby would like people to believe that Maine is a rogue state and this is rogue legislation and that more restrictive laws are necessary to “protect us.” The crime rates are very high in Chicago, yet they possess some of the most restrictive gunlaws in the country. Hmmm, why is that? Why do people think that criminals obey laws?

Tom Stonehouse

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