To the editor: Oh, please. Republican legislators are whining concerning the accessibility of firearm silencers underneath the guise of listening to safety (“GOP tax invoice would ease laws on gun silencers and a few rifles and shotguns,” June 23). Reasonably than utilizing private ear safety when capturing, they would like extra silencers in our communities, thereby placing their fellow residents vulnerable to being injured or killed throughout a capturing as a result of they didn’t hear gunfire or had been unable to discern the course from which it was coming.
It’s galling that Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, the proprietor of two gun shops, is shilling for the gun trade to scale back silencer regulation. Making silencers extra accessible would enhance gross sales and line his pockets. Legislators ought to concern themselves with public security slightly than doing the bidding of the gun trade.
Firearms are the main reason for demise of American kids and youths. Can’t Republicans consider something productive they may do to assist resolve that drawback?
Loren Lieb, Northridge
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To the editor: So Republicans in Congress need potential mass shooters, college shooters and presidential assassins to have prepared entry to silencers and sawed-off shotguns with out being topic to a background verify or paying a tax.
Inform me this: How is an effective man with a gun alleged to cease a foul man with a gun if he doesn’t know the place the photographs are coming from?
If solely Senate Republicans had thought to move comparable laws again in 2022 earlier than 19 elementary college children and two academics had been slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas. As a substitute of being ridiculed for failing to instantly confront the 18-year-old college shooter, the Uvalde police and Texas Rangers might have stated, “Properly, we didn’t go in as a result of we didn’t know the whereabouts of the shooter.”
Patricia Holloway, San Clemente
