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Re: “One dies, 22 shot at Kansas City Super Bowl parade: ‘Like almost nothing is safe’ ” [Feb. 15, A1]:
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” That’s been the philosophy of the National Rifle Association since the 1970s. It’s false. A bad guy with a gun has a deadly weapon, safety off, with intent to use it. You could have 800 policemen present, e.g., at the Super Bowl celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs Wednesday, and you still can’t stop the bad guy because the bad guy is on the offense. Everyone else is a target.
The only way to counter that is if everyone else is on offense: Everyone has guns at the ready, safety off, ready to shoot. That is warfare. But we don’t want to be in a state of war when we’re going to a Super Bowl event or elementary school. We want to live normal lives. But we can’t live normal lives and be targets for bad guys at the same time. “Good guys with guns” is a fictitious ruse to make us believe that more guns will bring more safety. They won’t. It hasn’t worked. Kansas City proved it.
We need lots of commonsense gun-safety measures. And we need them now.
Greg Hauth, Everett
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