To The Reader’s Forum:

This is in response to your Post Journal Oct.26 front page article by A.J.Rao. Your article basically says that our neighboring States need stricter gun laws. In the article Mr. Rao says that between 2010-2015 there were 153 guns recovered in Chautauqua County. However your article fails to mention how many of these guns were actually purchased legally. Your opening sentence states that 55 stolen guns were recovered. The guns were stolen from a string of gun shop burglaries in Pennsylvania.

I fail to see how stricter gun laws would have prevented these guns from entering New York state. It was also interesting that you would leave out the percentage of the offenders that were repeat offenders. Maybe if government dealt with criminals in a more severe way, the rest of us law abiding citizens wouldn’t have to pay the price of more infringements of our rights.

Kevin Herb

Jamestown