VIOLENCE AND DRUGS

RECENTLY, I watched a child's life fade away. He had been shot with a
syringe of heroin. Paramedics were able to start his heart again, but he
didn't regained consciousness, his life hung by a thread.

Many people write letters against guns, saying they want to "save the
children." If they are really sincere about this, then where are the
Million Mom marches against drugs and the accompanying gang violence?

Where is the outrage over all of the children whose lives are ruined by
drugs and gangs? Where is the call for common sense laws to control drug
dealers and gangs? Why aren't there calls for the registration of all
convicted drug dealers and gang members? We register sex offenders.

Why don't I see people calling for any of this? All I do see is people
trying to pass feed-good gun laws that will only effect law-abiding citizens.

Are they afraid of addressing the real problem?

To save our children, then do something about the drug dealers and gang
members that are destroying our society. Guns are not our problem,
criminals who commit violence are.

Robert L Heiney, Antioch