Here's My Latest Letter ...

A letter Wednesday, 'Criminals Will Get Guns Anyway,' reports that "only between 3 percent and 11 percent of criminals who used guns purchased them legally," claiming that making it harder to buy guns legally won't make a difference.  But this ignores the obvious problem with the equation.  Nothing ever happens to the 'illegal' seller.  Suppose there were strong penalties for selling firearms in any manner except one prescribed by law.  And the penalty for violations were to be commensurate with the crime committed with the firearm in question.  So the seller might wind up being charged with being complicit in mass murder.  Might that make a difference?