To the editor: Oh, please. Republican legislators are whining concerning the accessibility of firearm silencers underneath the guise of listening to safety (“GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers and some rifles and shotguns,” June 23). Reasonably than utilizing private ear safety when taking pictures, they would favor extra silencers in our communities, thereby placing their fellow residents susceptible to being injured or killed throughout a taking pictures as a result of they didn’t hear gunfire or have 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 business to scale back silencer regulation. Making silencers extra accessible would improve gross sales and line his pockets. Legislators ought to concern themselves with public security relatively than doing the bidding of the gun business.
Firearms are the leading cause of death of American youngsters and teenagers. Can’t Republicans consider something productive they may do to assist remedy that downside?
Loren Lieb, Northridge
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To the editor: So Republicans in Congress need potential mass shooters, faculty shooters and presidential assassins to have prepared entry to silencers and sawed-off shotguns with out being topic to a background examine 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 go comparable laws again in 2022 earlier than 19 elementary faculty youngsters and two academics have been slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas. As an alternative of being ridiculed for failing to right away confront the 18-year-old faculty shooter, the Uvalde police and Texas Rangers may have stated, “Effectively, we didn’t go in as a result of we didn’t know the whereabouts of the shooter.”
Patricia Holloway, San Clemente
