Editorial: Gun control tactic hard to shoot down
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 20, 2015, Las Vegas Sun.
Aside from picking office holders, Nevada voters next year will have the opportunity to help keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Granted, we can’t always identify “the wrong hands” because many crimes are committed in the passion of the moment by first-time gun-wielders who might not fit the profile of a gunman-in-waiting.
But as a society, we at least can try to weed out those people who, on the face of it, shouldn’t be allowed to carry a weapon. It’s an obvious group: felons, domestic abusers and the mentally ill who have been identified by the state as having been committed involuntarily to a mental health institution or deemed a danger to themselves or others.