OPINION:
Democrats are pushing another senseless call for stricter gun control (“Biden eyes executive action to impose new gun control measures,” Web, March 23). This happens after every mass shooting. They never focus on the reasons these acts take place. In many previous cases — including in San Bernardino, Calif., Fort Hood, Texas and Parkland, Fla. — there were warning signs about the individuals who would go on to do the shootings. However, they were either not followed up on or else were ignored by the FBI as well as the relevant state, city and school officials.
A major problem with these shootings is a lack of enforcement of existing laws. Before disarming law-abiding citizens who own guns for hunting, target practice, competition and self-defense, the objective should be to enforce current laws and prevent criminals and people known to be either violent or mentally unstable from obtaining guns.
Most importantly, we must hold the FBI and police departments and school officials accountable. Too many innocent people have been killed or injured.
One should also note that the Democrats never talk aout the thousands of people killed in inner cities every year. The clergy in those cities, as well as Black conservatives, want this to end and stress the need for two-parent families, education and job training to end the problems with drugs, gangs and crimes that lead to these killings.
MARVIN L. HOOVIS
Centerville, Mass.
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