Access to guns is the issue in the United States

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Access to guns is the issue in the United States

That old NRA slogan: “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” has reappeared at length in the Sun Herald Sound Off column lately. That slogan evades the real issue. Its premise is that a madman without a gun will kill anyway. Probably true. But he can’t kill 17 people in 6 minutes. Nor can he kill 45 people that are 100 feet away from him. He can with a gun.

This country has the highest murder rate in the world; not because we have more madmen, but because our madmen have access to guns. They are orders of magnitude more lethal than any other weapon that a layman can obtain. That’s the reason that soldiers carry them instead of swords or clubs.

Bruce Emerick

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NCAA faculty representative backs Southern Miss president’s decision on Art Briles

By R. Alan Thompson

February 11, 2019 01:15 PM

Southern Miss president Rodney Bennett decided against the hiring of former Baylor football coach Art Briles. NCAA faculty athletics representative R. Alan Thompson issues a letter in Bennett’s support.