Currently, anyone with a legal firearm can carry it unloaded in an enclosed container, but what good is it then? This law has been successful in other states, and if you're worried that it will cause gun crime to increase, you should know that Washington, D.C., has the strictest gun laws and highest violent crime rate in America.

Criminals don't obey gun laws, so gun restrictions only disarm the citizens we should be worried about the least - the law-abiding kind. Utahns shouldn't have to pay money for, or be put on, a permit registry simply because they choose to exercise their right to protect themselves. Law enforcement officials who don't like this law are not thinking about Utah citizens, but about themselves. They don't need this law to carry their own guns, so why let others? They deal with untrustworthy people every day, causing some of them to trust nobody.

If local government doesn't trust law-abiding citizens with guns, should law-abiding citizens trust local government with theirs? Fortunately, many officials do agree with this law and, fortunately, we have lawmakers who can see past the many gun-control myths that abound.

Matthew Falkner

Sandy