Letter: Efforts to control guns may have adverse results

Published: Sunday, Jan. 20 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

This Jan. 16, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, gesturing as he talks about proposals to reduce gun violence, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington.

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President Barack Obama's efforts to curb guns in America may actually have the opposite effect.

Many people who have never owned a gun are now rushing to purchase guns and ammo. My 18-year-old grandson is one of them. He recently bought a handgun and a taser but has no real need or use for either. He wants a concealed weapons permit but is not old enough.

Thanks, Mr. President, for putting fear and guns into the hearts and hands of our citizens and children.

Brent Overson

Taylorsville

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Blue

Salt Lake City, UT

Your grandson has broken the law, because the legal age for handgun ownership is 21.

If your grandson did in fact buy a handgun, then he did not do it with a criminal background check, which is precisely what we're talking about with More..

5:34 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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liberal larry

salt lake City, utah

His has to be the most ridiculous pro-gun argument ever. You really think it is Obama spreading the fear? Have you checked out AM radio recently? The amount of frothing and foaming from the gun lobby is over the top.

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7:48 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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Mike in Cedar City

Cedar City, Utah

If there is fear, it wasn't Obama that put it out there. It's the NRA gun nuts that put out the proposition that the only real deterant for a "bad guy" with a gun is a "good guy" with a gun. Why would they say that? Could More..

8:34 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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