Letters: Errors in many gun laws

Published: Sunday, Jan. 27 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Thousands demonstrate at a pro gun rally sponsored by Guns Across America at the Utah State Capitol Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Salt Lake City.

Tom Smart, Deseret News

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Miriam Walkingshaw's call for more gun laws ("Smart gun laws," Jan. 20) needs a reality check.

A major contributing factor to the Virginia Tech, Arizona and Aurora theater shootings: the psychiatrists involved failed their responsibilities to report. Perhaps she can take a suggestion from the Utah Health Department's posted study regarding children and injuries and deaths ages 1 to 19: "The magnitude of motor vehicle injuries is unequalled by any other injury type."

Walkingshaw would save more children's lives by fighting President Barack Obama's push for 54.5 mpg higher-mileage standards. They have contributed to far more child deaths by building newer vehicles with less safety protection due to less structural supports in vehicle bodies to save mileage over safety.

Chuck Newton

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The Real Maverick

Orem, UT

So what research do you have which proves that the cars being pushed by their gas mileage are causing the increase in deaths?

To borrow a repub zinger and apply it here, "Cars don't kill people they are a tool. Idiot drivers kill More..

11:06 a.m. Jan. 27, 2013
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one old man

Ogden, UT

May I nominate this letter for Dumbest of the Month?

I agree that psychiatrists need to report worrisome people. But the problem is that "privacy" laws -- pushed and passed by conservatives, by the way, usually prevent that.
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11:24 a.m. Jan. 27, 2013
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the old switcharoo

mesa, AZ

I argue that the first right any person has that government should not have anything to do with is marriage not guns.

The idea that a person needs to get a permission from the government to get married goes straight back to the Kings and More..

3:10 p.m. Jan. 27, 2013
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