Transplanting gun laws won’t work

The Gazette recently published a letter (“Australia is proof gun laws work,” June 4, by Kenneth Hubel), in which he extolled the virtue of Australia's gun laws and exhorts us to simply transplant these laws to the United States and all will be well. This really cries out for a response.

To compare Australia to the United States is a classic apples and oranges line of reasoning. The differences in the two countries are too vast and numerous to list without submitting an essay. His argument reminds me of the old Logic Quip, a duck has two legs, I have two legs, therefore, I am a duck.

It might surprise the letter writer to learn that thousands of folks think self-defense is a perfectly valid reason to have a gun in the house.

If the people who want to reduce gun violence would just put their thinking caps on, they might accomplish something.

Gary Sargent

Cedar Rapids