Guns, health

To the editor:

Leaders favor a smoking ban (“Push for statewide smoking ban gaining momentum,” Journal-World, Aug. 13). A state senator says: “It’s not a private rights issue anymore. It’s a health issue.”

If we can do it with cigarettes, can we do it with guns?

Tackle tobacco, and then let’s see if we’re tired enough of the ludicrous level of gun possession and the rise of random killings – likewise “a health issue.”

Judy Harrington,
Lawrence