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Letter to the editor: Nation needs sensible gun control
In the 1980s when the threat of nuclear war caused great anxiety about our children’s safety, even survival, I remember a cartoon that is applicable to our epidemic of school shootings.
Panel 1: A father asking his child, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Panel 2: Child responding, “Alive — if it’s not too much trouble.”
No one wants to take guns away from legitimate owners who use them safely. We regulate motor vehicles to make them safer — seatbelts, airbags, speed limits. Why not do the same for guns? Our children are pleading with us. Let’s be good parents and protect them with sensible gun control.
Jack Mayer
Middlebury
Editor’s note: The writer is a Middlebury pediatrician, author and 1982-1984 New England Delegate to the anti-nuclear Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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