Guns and violence
Re: “Pointing at guns after Arapahoe High School shooting,” Dec. 21 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Art St. John of Westminster writes, “Perhaps we need to start asking why people feel it is acceptable to resolve differences with violence, instead of continually blaming the object used in the crime.”
The answer lies in the simple fact that people get violent a million times a second in this country. They knock things over, they kick things, they slam doors, they curse, they stomp around, they pull their hair out, they spit, they foam at the mouth and nobody dies. But you put a loaded gun in their hand and reason and dialogue and common sensibility go out the barrel.
People die, not because somebody “lost it,” but because they lost it in a way that always gives them the last word.
Lewis J. Thompson, III, Denver
This letter was published in the Dec. 26 edition.