Re "Here's the questions" (Public Forum, Nov. 4):

Apparently discourse on gun control, or should I say more correctly, gun prohibition, has taken yet another downturn as evidenced by the snotty, smarty-pants tone of the writer

There is no number carved in stone of the amount of future victims of crimes yet to be committed, nor will the prevention the writer alludes to: no guns, except of course, those retained by the military, paramilitary police organizations, and murderers, robbers, and rapists, etc., will prevent violent crimes yielding a high body count, As long as the current tag team of cowards infesting Washington are calling the shots, there may soon be no good guys left to shoot back at the bad ones. Taking responsibility for the defense of your own life, regardless of the locale, is a viable, real life solution, not immersing yourself in sarcastic rhetoric.

Daniel Taylor
Tujunga