To the editor: Oh, please. Republican legislators are whining in regards to the accessibility of firearm silencers below the guise of listening to safety (“GOP tax bill would ease regulations on gun silencers and some rifles and shotguns,” June 23). Fairly than utilizing private ear safety when capturing, they would favor extra silencers in our communities, thereby placing their fellow residents vulnerable to being injured or killed throughout a capturing 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 trade to cut back silencer regulation. Making silencers extra accessible would enhance gross sales and line his pockets. Legislators ought to concern themselves with public security quite than doing the bidding of the gun trade.
Firearms are the leading cause of death of American kids and youths. Can’t Republicans consider something productive they could do to assist resolve 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 verify or paying a tax.
Inform me this: How is an effective man with a gun presupposed to cease a foul man with a gun if he doesn’t know the place the pictures are coming from?
If solely Senate Republicans had thought to go comparable laws again in 2022 earlier than 19 elementary faculty children and two academics have been slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas. As a substitute of being ridiculed for failing to instantly confront the 18-year-old faculty shooter, the Uvalde police and Texas Rangers might have stated, “Properly, we didn’t go in as a result of we didn’t know the whereabouts of the shooter.”
Patricia Holloway, San Clemente
