December 8, 2006

Gun Control: a 'Simplistic' Answer to a Complex Problem

To the Editor:

I'm sure that Kristin A. Goss's "The Missing Movement for Gun Control" (The Chronicle Review, October 20) will be viewed favorably by most of your readers. If I may be allowed a dissenting view, I would like to point out two alternative reasons for the failure of the gun-control movement.

The concept of gun control is a simplistic and seductive answer to the very complex problems of crime, suicides, and accidents involving guns. Unfortunately, there is no valid

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