I have always been more than a little perplexed by people’s opposition to reasonable gun laws, but I have to admit, David Trahan’s commentary in the May 21 edition helped me a great deal (“Sportsman’s chief says gun law would be overregulation of the purest kind”).
Given that the fastest-rising demographic of gun violence victims is children, and assuming that Mr. Trahan would agree that children are worth saving, his and others’ unwillingness to entertain even the most common-sense precautions is confusing.
I have always known that there are people who have “a deep-rooted mistrust of our government,” as Mr. Trahan states, but it seems disingenuous at best for him to lament this fact, while spending the bulk of his column space fanning the flames of this mistrust (government confiscation of firearms – are you kidding?).
The thought that occurred to me that will allow me to sleep at night without having nightmares of 9-year-olds swapping shotguns like baseball cards is simply this: Mr. Trahan and his ilk have no clue what a government is good for. To them, there seems to be no such thing as government reach, only government overreach.
Glenn Selwood
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