Letter: Gun control laws must be revisited

Saturday, April 21, 2007 | 7:09 a.m.

I was reading the Las Vegas Sun's April 17 editorial "Deadly day in Virginia " and was wondering why does it take a tragedy to realize that something needs to happen with gun control.

As a student at the Community College of Southern Nevada, I realize that school shootings happen frequently. How do you protect such a big area of students? Cops or school police can't be everywhere. Virginia Tech was a gun-free zone and that helped how? It didn't protect the students and staff.

If someone had a gun on campus it might have kept the gunman from killing more people. Of course, we will never know. It is unrealistic to totally ban guns, and I am not for that, but I think that the laws need to be looked at. Make it harder for guns to be purchased, such as a longer waiting period or put a limit on how much ammo can be bought at a given time. Or maybe have a nationwide database in all stores that sell guns and ammo to keep track of what people are buying and how much they are buying.

These are just suggestions - I don't pretend to know all the laws of gun control. Of course, there are always going to be ways for people who shouldn't have guns to get them and so it seems that it's a no-win situation. But something's got to happen. It's sad that such violence happens in our society. Something has got to give. When will we begin to feel safe in our own country?

Amy Flores, Las Vegas