by Mike Fox, Letter to The Editor, Baltimore Sun
In response to Dan Rodricks’ column “On guns, we lost an opportunity” (April 21), I would say that as a nation and a people, we cannot be too vain or too fearful to address gun violence and find new ways prevent it.
The National Rifle Association and its allies would have everyone believe that any form of gun control is a slippery slope to banning guns entirely.
But are seat-belt laws and speed limits a slippery slope to banning cars?
The truth is that the NRA represents a small minority of American gun owners and that although most Americans support the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns, most also support tougher gun laws.
For all the banter about Second Amendment freedoms and gun rights, we are not truly free if we are not free from fear and free from violence in our communities and homes.Mike Fox
Filed under: Gun and liberty
