Letter: Make criminals illegal, not guns
Date: Apr 13, 2006 2:20 PM
PUBLICATION: The Kingston Whig-Standard
DATE: 2006.04.13
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Forum
PAGE: 7
BYLINE: John Tomlin
SOURCE: The Kingston Whig-Standard
WORD COUNT: 132

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Make criminals illegal, not guns

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It’s funny how everyone is an expert on the subject of guns, especially
those who never owned one or fired one. I am responding to Fraser
Petrick ‘s letter (Feb. 2), in which he said, “Guns are designed to kill
people.”

Let me explain a few things. There are guns for sport such as the
Liathalme rifle, the trap and sleet and some pistols like the Olympic
target pistols designed for that sport, and then there are hunting
rifles and shot guns for hunting only.

As for Mr. D. R. Dafoe’s letter (Jan. 10), I would like to add knives,
bats, and axes all in the wrong hands are dangerous. So Mr. Petrick,
maybe you should write on the black board a hundred times: Ban the
criminals, not the weapons.

John Tomlin
Kingston