Gun laws should focus on the person who pulls the trigger

Letter writer Becky Wagner, the executive director of Advocates for Children and Youth, makes an emotional plea for Maryland legislators to support series of bills that would ban assault weapons, close down gun dealers who violate the law, require everyone who owns firearms to report lost or stolen guns to authorities and deter straw purchasers from transferring guns to people who should not have them ("We can stop guns from killing our children," Feb. 12).

February 16, 2013