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To the San Francisco Chronicle in reply to This

How is it possible that a disturbed man can get a hold of a shotgun? Easy, if you want something bad enough...no matter how illegal it is...you'll get it. That's how criminals in the UK still get guns even though they have been virtually banned there. The UK is a relatively small island. If they can't keep guns out of the hands of criminals under those conditions how do you propose that we accomplish that in a large, relatively free country with porous borders like the US? Oh, that's right...make guns illegal. Then all the bad guys will just stop using them right? You said it yourself: "We know that gun-control laws on their own won't eliminate gun violence". So, if gun control won't stop criminals and crazies from being what they are, what is the alternative? How about self-defense...and the ready availability of the most effective tools to implement self-defense?

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To the Modesto Bee in reply to This

Re: The tragedy of Gun Death Grows

"How can a milk-truck driver acquire such an arsenal in a country that's supposedly free?"

Dictionary.com:

Free (adjective)

-exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one's will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted.

-able to do something at will; at liberty: free to choose.

The very definition of "free" answers the author's imbecilic question.

"The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

We CANNOT stop the crazies and criminals from being what they are. The best we can possibly hope for is the FREEDOM to own and use the best tools available to defend against the crazies and criminals when they inevitably come calling.