Friday's Letters to the Editor

Accountability laws

EDITOR: A simple two-step solution to guns would avoid bureaucracy and judgmental laws that question the rights of people to own such things. It can be applied to any dangerous thing or substance.

&amp;#149 Make if a federal offense to commit a crime with a thing or substance demonstrably and significantly endangering others and traded across state lines.

&amp;#149 The owner of said thing or substance serves the same sentence as the criminal, even if the latter is a child or is dead and even if the weapon was stolen, unless the weapon or substance was secured by a method only a professional criminal could circumvent.

This would require registration of dangerous things and a license to use them, which is already commonly done with motorcycles, prescription drugs and nitroglycerine. It can be extended to guns, ammunition and LSD.

Judgmental laws violate religious freedom. Laws should protect people against the advertent or inadvertent actions of others, not send them to prison for such judgments as marijuana smoking and gun ownership are evil.



Let off easy

EDITOR: Thanks for the follow-up article on Gary T. Armitage and the sentence he received ("Armitage gets 10 years in deal," Tuesday). I'm sure most people thought the sentence was too lenient. I do hope the sentence includes no parole. I also hope he is not sent to a white-collar prison.

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