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Opinion: Thinking gun control will work is insanity, says Ogdensburg man

Posted 3/20/18

To The Editor: It has been said over the years that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. After the tragic school shooting in Parkland …

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Opinion: Thinking gun control will work is insanity, says Ogdensburg man

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To The Editor:

It has been said over the years that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

After the tragic school shooting in Parkland Florida on Feb. 14, 2018, there are some elected servants like New York’s U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, calling for more gun control, yet, to date none of New York's gun laws have saved one life. That is the insanity of gun control — it does not work! Like the 1911 Sullivan Act (New York's pistol permit law), Assemblyman Timothy Sullivan, Democrat, was from syphillis entering the mentally incompetent stage of the disease when wrote the law!

After the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in January 2013 Gov. Andrew Cuomo rushed thru another gun control law NYSAFEACT 2013 which to date has not saved one life!

Both these laws do not address gang violence, which the FBI reports near 75 percent of gun deaths are gang related; these deaths are not needed until re-election time then they are an issue again.

Also, the gun laws do not address the side effects of man-made antidepressants and pain medicine. So, the gun laws are just more blowing smoke in your eyes and using mirrors to make you feel that our elected servants are concerned.

Keep in mind that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has an armed security detail for his safety, not yours!

Kevin Doran

Ogdensburg