Re: “An outsider’s view of guns in U.S.,” Dec. 26 letter to the editor.
Rod Wise, an Aussie living in Denver, holds up his homeland’s gun control program as a model, claiming there have been no mass shootings in the past 20 years.
The following mass shootings happened in Australia in that time: 2002’s Monash University shooting killed two and wounded five; 2011’s Hectorville shooting killed two and wounded three; 2014’s Hunt family killings left five dead; and 2014’s Wedderburn shootings killed three.
Some people might respond: “But itap only four!” True, but in the absence of the availability of guns, killers will resort to other methods such as arson, blunt weapons and stabbings. In these cases, the killers still got guns despite the laws of the land. Criminals care not for the rule of law.
I have no issue with our Australian friends, but please don’t hold up that program and make grand proclamations that simply aren’t true.
Duane Merz, Parker
This letter was published in the Dec. 30 edition.
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