Guns and drugs

[wallis@mail.wsu.edu]

A recent letter to the Daily News said that more laws regulating 
guns would be as ineffective as laws regulating drugs. I thought the 
parallel was interesting. In our free society we accept many 
limitations and regulations on drug use, including government 
oversight of manufacturing, distribution, and sales, as well as 
limitations on the age of drug consumers and, in several cases, 
outright prohibition of use. We may have many more restrictions on 
these potentially dangerous substances than we do on lethal 
weapons.
As a society we have successfully limited sale and distribution of a 
few types of weapons. It seems that the real question before us 
whether our weapons laws are sufficiently restrictive, or perhaps 
already too restrictive.