Letter: A better option to reduce guns

More doable would be a federal law to stop the current sale of assault weapons by anyone, phased in to allow time for citizens to sell their weapons. At the end of the phase-in period, a federally funded buy-back program would begin, implemented as a state option in those states where citizens feel safer without assault weapons, such as Connecticut. In other states, there would be no buy-back program because citizens feel safer armed to the teeth.

We could then press our South Carolina state legislators to institute a buy-back program or move to a safer state (or Canada). This state-by-state and city-by-city approach to regulating weapons is accepted by the current U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear an appeal against laws regulating guns in Highland Park, Ill.

John Hollender

This story was originally published December 25, 2015 at 6:11 AM with the headline "Letter: A better option to reduce guns."