“If we just didn’t have guns. Yes, I know I speak heresy, but you don’t hear about mass stabbings. I’ve been writing this letter in my head over the past 10 days, actually, for 40 years. I wrote my first letter to the editor on gun control 40 years ago. I was hopeful enough to think all guns could be banned. Years later I marched in the Million Moms March in D.C. Now, how many horrendous mass killings, later, and I think another letter will help? I know the comeback, about the person has to do the deed, but what if a gun wasn’t available? It seems straightforward to me. No guns, no mass slaughter by gun.” – Ann Matthews in a letter to tricities.com