The Cape Gazette recently published two letters written against the passing of gun control legislation in Delaware, to include mandatory background checks on all firearms purchases. There are opposing opinions on the gun control issue with each side airing some valid arguments.
As a law enforcement professional for 35 years, I believe that properly conducted background checks (without bypasses or time limits) on all potential firearm purchasers, especially convicted felons, adjudged mentally ill individuals and persons with violent criminal convictions, are integral in contributing to the reduction of criminal activities involving firearms.
This can be combined with other proven safeguards. Background checks in no way jeopardize the purchase and ownership of guns by legal citizens, nor do they affect citizens’ Second Amendment rights to purchase and own firearms. To claim that they do is a fallacy.
Nick De Cerchio
Lewes
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