Letters to the Editor
Jackie Gaston
Increasing access to guns as the solution of gun violence makes as much sense as doubling up on doughnuts to lose weight. Not gonna happen. Why not try responsible gun control including a bipartisan deal with state and local governments to buy back semiautomatic weapons? That’s what Australia did in 1996 after a gunman killed 35 tourists and wounded 23 more. Their buyback covered about one-fifth of all firearms in Australia, including more than 600,000 semiautomatic shotguns and rifles.

Letters to the Editor
Jackie Gaston
Passing SQ 744 would take these decisions out of the hands of the people who are represented by their legislators, thus forcing priority funding for a single area of state service without even knowing what budgetary challenges lie ahead.