The Trouble With Guns

March, 1982

First Off, let's try to understand three things:Continuing confusion on those three points is the main reason there are more Federal, state and local gun laws in this country than in all the rest of the world but little effective gun control. The zealots on both sides of the gun controversy go at one another like dogs on a rag, tugging and snarling, dedicated solely to vanquishing the foe. Reformers approach this complex social problem with all the subtlety and sophistication of redneck preacher...