Letter: Gun control is senseless

Doug Esslinger, Corryton

We have heard so much about gun control in the past couple of months, it is starting to wear thin. I would think people would look up definitions before deeming everything an assault weapon.

I guess there are numerous assault weapons such as levels, hammers, bricks, alcohol, rope, etc. I guess those need to be banned as well. We can build houses with straw. We can't do logs because we would need an ax.

The government will not protect you like you hope it will — just the opposite.

In a recent letter, the writer stated that citizens do not have the right to weapons for any purpose whatsoever. It is not as the writer says.

Just as many others do, the writer took one line from one of the 157 pages in the Heller v. District of Columbia decision.

If people want to see lives saved, let's jail criminals longer, study cases of mental illness, try to ban alcohol (there are more deaths because of it than guns) and stop abortions.