Lori Falce’s column “The black and white of guns” starts out lumping seven hot topics with gun rights/control as having “gray area” that must be understood before both sides of any issue are settled.

When it comes to gun rights/gun control, it is black and white. Because the “gray area” will never stop man killing man with firearms. It is a right, in the United States, for citizens to own guns; guns are legal to purchase; and there are adequate regulations at all levels. These facts do make this issue black and white — for guns for individual protection, hunting, law enforcement, etc.

Liberals want to muddy the waters of all issues with the “gray area.” More regulations, more background checks and more community gun buy-back events will never dissolve the “gray area.” That’s because governments will still wage wars, crackpots will still “go postal” with a hunting rifle and inner cities will still have violence. I’m sure the drug dealers and gang-bangers were in those gun buy-back lines.

The “rainbow of gray” you speak of with the gun control issue is lost on me. I don’t know what that means. I have no idea how this issue is solved by more focus and “buy-in” from both sides. No one knows why man kills man. Sadly, if mass killings came by way of bombs, vehicles or knives, then this gun control narrative would cease.

Paul A. Hornbake

Bolivar

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