The column by Greg Erlandson in the Sept. 20 issue (“The monsters in our own nightmare”) picks incidents that are not the norm in order to call for gun control. 

What he fails to mention are how many times a year guns are used in self-defense (2 million, according to one statistic) where no one is shot. But I guess those potential victims are better than the thug dying or being shot in the process. 

More people die as a result of gun control policies than are saved. 

— Scott Welsh, Lewistown, Montana