Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

Life is much safer without guns

TO THE EDITORS:

Two stories in the paper on Jan. 24 illustrate the madness of our gun culture.

In the first, a man (law-abiding until then) shot his friend in the stomach. In the second, a man threatened a woman with an AR-15 rifle in a road rage incident. Luckily, no one died, but that is often not the case.

If you strip away the macho movie fantasies, the fear-mongering and the clever bumper-sticker slogans, here is what you get: You are safer in a country with strict gun control laws (not the U.S.), you are safer in a home without a gun, and you are safer without a gun -- whether you like it or not.

Tom Simpson

Lancaster