Listen to both sides of gun debate

I’m a retired suburban police sergeant who, through most of my career, wished I could jettison the added weight of my sidearm. That being said, I relied upon it for my well-being and the well-being of others who might be in a life-taking situation.

Anti-gun advocates claim they want a safer society, yet an armed, law-abiding citizen is not as dangerous as a licensed driver. There are instruments of death and destruction by function and design that cause far more carnage than the item that is protected by our constitution. If most activists were sincere, they would ban the wheel and work their way down a list of most dangerous products in descending order.

There are solid reasons the founders insisted upon the second amendment, and it is not sporting purposes.

I don’t expect any logic will change the heart and mind of anyone who has an anti-gun ideology, nor someone who has lost a loved one through gun violence, but those who can reason without that emotion should listen to both sides.

Brian DeWolf

Batavia