Little or no effect

Editor,

The President’s new gun control proposals and his executive orders will have little or no effect on gun violence in this country and the statement that they are worth it even if they save a single life is almost ridiculous. Guns don’t kill people or children, criminals do. If all of the President’s proposals were in place it would have not changed what happened in the Connecticut elementary school, or in the recent theater shootings in Colorado for that matter.

Killings in Chicago and Washington D.C. are wholesale and yet they have some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S. Mor...