Re: “,” Nov. 7 letter to the editor.
I couldn’t disagree more with letter-writer Marion Haugh’s position that “An armed public does not make us safer.” Studies have shown that cities with high crime rates have seen a drop in that crime rate when concealed-carry laws are passed. The mass shooting in Texas may have been even worse if the armed neighbor hadn’t engaged the shooter with returned rifle fire.
Haugh quotes a story from The Denver Post: “The investigation into the Thornton Walmart shooting last Wednesday was delayed by ‘panicked people running out of the store, shoppers who pulled their own guns and multiple victims.’ ”
I submit that one competent, trained concealed-carry permitted citizen could have superseded any “delay” in the “investigation” by ending the crisis situation before it got to that point.
Mick Hopkins, Littleton
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