GOODS AND PEOPLE, NOT DEATH
(In response to the April 20 letter to the editor, “Cars but no guns?”)
David Hill wrote in the April 20 letter to the editor, "What I can't wrap my head around is the idea that cars are acceptable [on campus] but guns aren't."
I haven't figured out whether this letter was satire or serious. Just in case this letter wasn't satire, I feel I need to point out that cars were designed to get people and goods from one location to another.
It is only when they are misused that damage, bodily harm, and/or death result. On the other hand, guns cannot be used without causing damage, bodily harm, and/or death.
It scares me to think that people who use David's "logic" actually vote. Contrary to what David wrote, there actually are "Ban Cars" movements. The cartoonist Andy Singer is notoriously anti-car, for instance.
Christopher Heckman
Faculty
