LETTER: Don’t blame the gun for recent mass killings

James T. Davenport Las Vegas

2 years ago

Buffalo Bills' Josh Allen visits the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, ... — Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen visits the scene of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

James R. Skinner (Sunday letter) contends that, had AR-15-type rifles not been available, the mass murders in Uvalde and Buffalo would not have happened. Let me understand. The madman would have walked into a gun shop and found no AR-15s for sale and said, “Darn it. I’ll just go get therapy”?

More likely he would have bought a shotgun, walked to the hardware store for a hacksaw and then had a weapon as deadly as the AR. Blaming the gun is pointless.