Williams has misfire

Walter Williams in his recent column makes two fundamental errors. First, he equates regulation of automobiles to the regulation of guns. The logic necessary to conflate the regulation of products designed to transport people with products designed to injure and kill is beyond credulity. The absurdity of the related logic comes even more into focus if it includes gun products whose only purpose is to increase the carnage available to the shooter (automatic rifles and banana clips). The second mistake is almost as egregious. Professor Williams says, “Problems … of antisocial behavior will continue until we regain our moral footing.” In conjunction with his preceding comments in this column, he must mean that less gun regulation will somehow help us regain our moral footing. But maybe I am wrong in my inference of his causation. If so, could we at least have more gun regulation until we regain our moral footing, however we do it?

LEN WHITE

Fayetteville