Crime is a sociological problem

To the editor:

‘We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women. If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.” - Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, chief spokesman the Islamic State, 2014

Liberty-loving Americans have enemies of all stripes - ISIL quoted above, our government's renewed efforts to disarm us and its lackeys spouting the government's anti-freedom line. Recent letters have focused on banning the ownership of semi-automatic rifles like the ones used by two Muslim murderers in California.

Crime is a sociological problem, not a technical one. Anyone who attributes crime to the number of cartridges in a magazine cannot be taken seriously. Trust your government? Me neither. Governments are not moral entities that follow accepted rules of conduct. Treaties, laws, even constitutions, do not apply. Ask the Sioux or the Apache. Ask the Japanese, the Vietnamese or the Iraqis.

To disarm Americans in the face of the world's most medieval killers would be treason. And to those who want the state to take my firearms, I encourage you to man-up and do your own dirty work. Call before you come. I'll serve tea.

Ed Dolan

Central City