WARNER: Other information to consider about guns

I’m writing in reference to Mr. Warner’s LTE in the Friday, April 21 issue of the Coeur d’Alene Press. It is estimated that there are upward of 20,000 municipal and county ordinances and state and federal laws regulating firearms. Not to mention the myriad of rules and regulation imposed by executive fiat, issued almost weekly, if not more often, by BATFE. Many of which do not pass judicial review but cause nightmares for lawful firearms dealers and their law abiding customers. Perhaps Mr. Warner knows of another inanimate object subject to anywhere near the regulations that firearms are held to.

Mr. Warner also claims that guns are the leading “cause” of death of “children.” Well to paraphrase slick Willie Clinton it depends on what your definition of children is. In 2020, the CDC says that 2,811 “children” were killed by guns. They left out the part that those guns were misused by evil people. If you subtract 16- to 19-year-olds, prime ages for gang-bangers, the number drops to below 500.

Mr. Warner then takes on “assault weapons.” An assault weapon is anything you use to attack another person. There is an accepted definition of assault rifle; short rifle of intermediate caliber, capable of select fire, meaning it can fire in either semi or full automatic mode. They are often correctly referred to as sub-machine guns, when chambered in pistol calibers, or machine guns when chambered in rifle calibers. This definition is totally ignored by state legislators in most states. They prefer to ban lawful products instead of prosecuting criminals who perpetrate evil acts on innocent law abiding people.

DWIGHT VAN HORN

Kootenai County