Letter: Gun control laws obviously don't work

Just days after the Highland Park shootings, ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe was shot and killed in - as Al-Jazeera puts it - "largely gun free Japan ... Japanese gun-ownership restrictions do not allow private citizens to have handguns."

This is just weeks after a mass shooting in gun control-happy Copenhagen, Denmark and a couple weeks earlier, Norway. You may recall somewhere around a decade ago Anders Brevik killed 77 people in Norway. Yep, them gun control laws are doing just dandy, aren't they?

Of course, Illinois already has a red flag law.

Per the U.S. Department of Justice, "other than the police and the military, no one in Japan may purchase a handgun or a rifle. Hunters and target shooters may possess shotguns and air guns under strictly circumscribed conditions. The police check gun licensees' ammunition inventory to make sure there are no shells or pellets unaccounted for."

Truth is, with an equal number of guns, there were massively fewer shootings a generation ago. Y'know, before Big Pharma doped up our kids with SSRIs, the radical feminists destroyed fatherhood and the family was intact.

Fathers? Years ago, I listened to baseball great Dusty Baker talk about how he was going to join the Black Panthers as a teenager. His father said if he did, he would kill him. So, instead of becoming a criminal, Baker almost made the baseball Hall of Fame after 19 years in MLB.

But please don't worry about our hypocrite leftist politicians. They are heavily covered by men with guns. It's only us little people who don't get to protect ourselves (from the rising crime they, themselves, have created) or as convicted tax evader Leona Helmsley famously said, "Laws are for little people."

Blaise Vanne

Aurora