Laws criminals love

It's Christmas season again, and what do we hear from the Post-Gazette? Christmas carols? No, the old familiar liberal chant of gun control, gun control, gun control in "Gun-Law Groundswell: The State Needs a Law Requiring Responsibility" (Dec. 18). It's too bad liberals aren't interested in facts, just their own rhetoric.

It is a fact that, at last count, there were more than 20,000 laws in this country (federal, state and local) pertaining to firearms.

It is a fact that not one of these laws has ever been shown to have prevented one crime or prevented one criminal from getting his hands on any gun he wanted.

The problem is that laws are made for honest people. Criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws, and they love gun control. There's nothing they would like better than to see all their potential victims disarmed by their government, as liberals are eager to do.

We already have adequate laws for dealing with people who use firearms in the commission of crimes. Unfortunately, we also have prosecutors who love plea bargains, and the first thing they usually bargain away are the gun charges. If the Legislature would pass a law to correct this problem, criminals might begin serving the appropriate sentences for their crimes, instead of being put back on the streets by our revolving-door justice system.

EARL L. BROWN
Morningside