Opinions on gun control must have research

It is so refreshing to see that college campuses can still be places of rational thought and intelligent discourse. Paul McCauley’s article, “Reasonable comprimise needed in gun law debate,” very accurately points out that it’s our society that is the genesis of the violence, and focusing on the tools with which it is carried out is just plain “stupid.” This has been the fundamental premise of gun-right supporters forever. If you want to solve a problem you must look at the root cause and not the symptoms.

With all the purely emotional and baseless editorials flying around on this topic, I thank the Technician, and Paul, for having the courage to seek the TRUTH, something I wish the rest of our institutions of higher learning would remind themselves to do.

Daniel Stux

Vienna, Va.