Had To Do a Double-Take

But, yes, this letter actually ran in the Boston Globe.

Blaming guns

November 3, 2005

EVEN TAKING into consideration that Tim Casey is beside himself with grief over the murder of his student Kevin Garces, his Oct. 27 letter in which he blames Garces' death and those of ''millions of other children" on the NRA is inexcusable in its ignorance and fear-mongering.

In the fantasy land of gun-phobic liberals, there are no good people and there are no evil people. That's because there is no such thing as moral agency. There are only impressionable lumps of clay in human form who, at the appearance of the ''evil" object known as a firearm, are instantly turned into maniacally cackling, bullet-spraying John Dillingers or Dylan Klebolds.

In such a fantasy land, the argument that guns should be banned because ''they have no purpose except to kill" makes sense.

The only one who has Garces' blood on his (or perhaps her) hands is the person who shot him. The same goes for anyone else who was murdered with a firearm.

ROBIN B. SHORE
Everett