This proves that those pushing for more gun control want to eliminate private ownership of guns, despite their denials. Their deceptively shifting goals, from gun confiscation to “common-sense gun safety measures” merely reflects an incremental approach to get the same results.

Ms. Price laments that despite many gun control schemes passed in California, violence rates go up and down regardless of the laws. She is right. A recent Centers for Disease Control study found no proof that any gun control laws actually reduced crime.

Claiming the United Kingdom has a low number of gun deaths compared to the United States is falsely based on old data. Violent crimes have more than doubled in England since their ban on handgun ownership by law-abiding citizens.

Washington, D.C.'s total ban on handguns since 1978 would surely make that gun-free utopia a safe place. During the same time that 2,172 American troops died in Iraq, some 644 people were murdered in the District of Columbia. In the past three years, police confiscated more than 6,300 guns from criminals despite the district being “gun free” for more than 25 years. The district's violent crime rates are much higher than the neighboring states with “lax” gun laws.

It's not the guns, it's the criminals.

John Spangler

Salt Lake City