Letter to the editor: What about the two-ton weapons — cars?

In response to Diana Steck’s letter “Enough is enough — we need action on guns” (June 8, TribLIVE): Wow, amazing, good go, Congress, for passing new gun control laws and saving the children of the USA. Steck got the “action” she clamored for.

I sure won’t miss all of the 24/7 news ad nauseum about dead children (tongue-in-cheek). Except that now that the gun violence has been quelled, auto crashes can resume its traditional lead in dead children’s body counts. This will give Steck something to work on in the near and far future. The children’s death toll on our highways has always been No. 1 and isn’t always just an accident, either. Many vehicle deaths are actually homicides, too. For some reason, the public doesn’t consider criminal homicide by vehicle with the same conviction as with a gun. Give an unstable person a vehicle, add some attitude, drugs and alcohol, and you now have a two-ton “weapon.”

I only want to make one more comment: Criminals and mass murderers don’t adhere to laws. Only responsible, law-abiding citizens do, and they aren’t the problem.

Robert W. Smith

Plum