DAVID Stubley (Letters, November 20) is clearly of the view that more gun-totin' members of the public carrying concealed weapons will reduce the death-rate in terrorist attacks, or at least engender ''doubt'' in the minds of fanatics intent on murdering innocent people. Really?
His suggestion that only vetted members of the public should carry concealed weapons should remind him that Thomas Hamilton had four legally-held guns in his possession when he committed the Dunblane massacre.
All the vetting in the world will never eliminate the probability that, every now and then, the wrong person will be cleared to carry lethal weapons.
What sort of person would wish to carry a concealed weapon with them every day, everywhere they go? In the car, in the street, in shops, in church, in the hospital, in the cinema.
Does he want to be in that position? I would abhor it and would be very nervous around anyone who was comfortable with such a scenario.
We have as a nation very few gun deaths; using terrorist extremists' actions as a spur to have more people carrying guns is not a sensible position.
James Mills,
29 Armour Square, Johnstone.
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