Letter to the editor: Enforce existing gun laws

The so-called Common Agenda to End Gun Violence is no more than a feel-good law for the anti-gun crowd. I seriously doubt that anyone who values the Second Amendment would favor it. So what is going to be accomplished by enacting this as a law?

None of the points of this proposed law even mention speedy trial and punishment of someone arrested for a crime using a gun. All this law does is reinforce what 99% of the law-abiding gun owners are already doing in some shape or form.

The criminals, being criminals, will not abide by it. They will continue to get their weapons of choice illegally. It will definitely not stop mass murders. In many of the mass murders, the firearm(s) used were purchased legally with background checks (see Nashville shooter).

We could, however, take some of the criminals off the street, if we simply enforced the gun laws currently on the books, outlawed plea bargaining for crimes committed while using a gun and outlawed parole or any kind of shortened sentences for anyone arrested and convicted for a crime while using a gun.

Ralph Dunsworth

Oviedo, Fla.

The writer is a former Murrysville resident.