Same topic. Three different papers.
As seen in the L.A. Times, O.C. Register and Daily Pilot
It’s been a good week with more to come in the next few days. Several of my friends and I are working on a project that incorporates my gun summit letters (like the ones below). So, as the saying goes, stay tuned. DF
L.A. Times, June 12
I think the time and energy it actually would take to ratify a 28th Amendment could be put to better use.
Instead of taking decades to secure approval of two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states, I believe a gun summit at Camp David — with gun-rights advocates, law enforcement officials and survivors — could hammer out new, commonsense gun safety measures soon.
Impossible you say? Isn't that what critics of President Carter said when he brought old warriors Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel together at Camp David in 1978?
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Beach
O.C. Register, June 15
I applaud Gov. Newsom for thinking outside the conventional box; but speaking practically, I urge President Biden to convene a gun summit at Camp David instead. That's because I believe the time and energy it actually would take to ratify a 28th Amendment could be put to better use.
Instead of taking decades to secure approval of two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states, a gun summit at Camp David -- with leaders from the NRA, 2nd Amendment proponents, law enforcement and grieving families in attendance -- could hammer out new, commonsense gun safety measures in a matter of days.
Impossible you say? Isn't that what critics of Jimmy Carter said when he brought old warriors Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel together at Camp David in 1978? If, by chance, you have forgotten, their Middle East peace agreement still is in effect today.
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Beach
Daily Pilot, June 16
I read with great interest Patrice Apodaca’s recent column, “We must find effective answers to gun violence” (Daily Pilot, June 11).
Part of what she wrote really hit home with me. “We’re not safe. Not on the streets or in our workplaces; not at a mall or a party, a hair salon or a concert, a dance studio or a church or a theater.”
In recent weeks, President Biden has said he’s done everything he can to end gun violence, that it’s up to Congress to come up with new, commonsense gun safety laws. Respectfully, I disagree.
The president needs to take a page out of Jimmy Carter’s playbook and convene a gun summit at Camp David just like Carter did with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin in 1978.
Back then, it took nearly two weeks to come up with a Middle East peace agreement. Today, with representatives from the National Rifle Assn., 2nd Amendment, law enforcement and grieving families in attendance, I’m guessing they could come up with three or four gun safety initiatives in a matter of days.
With those initiatives in place, everyone involved in the Camp David gun summit would agree to hold hands and lobby reluctant lawmakers in Congress to switch their no votes on new gun safety laws to yes.
I agree with Apodaca. “When a small but unduly powerful group of people cling to the logic-defying position that the answer to gun violence is more guns, we must acknowledge that this aspect of our culture has gone terribly wrong.”
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Beach