To the Editor:
Maybe, just maybe, a long, blue line of police officers from all over the United States descending on Washington would convince our Congress of the urgent need to establish some controls on the sale of assault weapons.
JOEL H. COHEN
Staten Island
Note from KBJ: Yes, because that would have prevented the police killings in Dallas. (I'm being sarcastic.) It should be a necessary condition for advocating gun control that the specific control being advocated would have prevented the incident in question. If it wouldn't have, then you're merely exploiting the situation to take firearms from law-abiding citizens. Is there any reason to believe that regulating or prohibiting the sale of assault weapons (as the letter writer suggests) would have prevented these police killings? (That's a rhetorical question.) Don't you think the thugs who assassinated the officers would have found a way to acquire such weapons, even if they were illegal? And even if they couldn't acquire assault weapons, wouldn't they have found another way to kill, as by using bombs or deer rifles? I am sick to death of opportunistic gun-control demands.
