upport tougher firearms laws

Dear Editor:

As a member of the Coalition
for Gun Control, | would fike to
respond to Mike Jehnichen’s letter
of May 16.

He describes himself as a peace
officer, He is obviously not a po-
liceman, because if he were he
would know that the police are
tight behind the aims af the coali-
tion,

The Canadian Association of
Chiefs of Police is a supporting
organization and in a January
1993 letter to Wendy Cukier,
Chief Borbidge of the Calgary
Police said,
aware that your group has our full
support in its endeavor to address
the issue of gun control.”

Furthermore, the coalition does
not wish to ‘bash’ the law.
abiding citizen who is a firearms
owner and it has never been the
intention to disarm them,

The vast majority of Canadian

“| wish vou to be,

citizens want common-sense legis.
lation to prevent the proliferation
of firearms, especially rapid fire
automatic and semi-automatic
guns that have no place in society
outside of the military.

Jehnichen brings up the often-
used argument of anti-gun control
extremists of the need for citizens
to protect themselves from crimi-
nals.

They chose to ignore that 80%
of all homicides in Canada are be-
tween people who know cach
other and are caused by domestic
violence, arguments, accidents and
suicide.

Nearly all of the weapons used
are legally purchased.

If anyone wishes to see the
fallacy of his argument and his
frightening logic they have only to
look south of the border.

If more citizens possessing guns
really worked, the U.S.A. would
have the lowest death rate by

Charity begins at home

Dear Editor:

The other day on the CBC there
was an item on a new heart drug
t-PA, which, if put into general
use, would save the lives of at
least 300 more people in this
country every year than the pres-
ent drug in use. ;

The problem, it seems, is the
cost: $2,900 for t-PA treatment,
as opposed to $400 for the present
drug, a total of some $50 million
extra per year.

And the question was; Can we
afford it?

Well, maybe we can’t. But
remember it’s 300 Canadians we

are talking about — 300 Canadian
taxpayers,

And it seems to me that those
300, or 30, or even just one Ca-
nadian, should come first before
another dollar is sent out of this
country to aid those who are not
Canadians.

Time enough for them when all
the Canadians in need have been
looked after.

“Charity begins at home” is an
old, old saying, but evidently one
that bears repeating.

Denis Meson
West Vancouver

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firearms instead of the highest.

Perhaps Mike should move ta
Seattle where it is so safe that its
citizens stand a 15 times greater
chance of being killed by a gun
than in Vancouver,

He is right in one respect. The
majority. of citizens ARE law
abiding, bat in their overwhelming
support of Bill C17 they made it
clear that they want nothing to do
with such extreme views as ¢x-

din his May 16 letter.

West Vancouver

Lose marks

Dear Editor:

1} oam =o most disappointed
with the cut of Gary Ban-
nerman, the man who always
has something noteworthy to
say and who says it well,

You lose marks with me.
Nei) Thompson
West Vancouver

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