It was inevitable. A reasonable gun bill was proposed, Lauren's law, and the gun lobby pulled out its tired old lie about the inconvenience it would cause to law-abiding gun owners. Their premise is severely flawed.
If all gun owners were law-abiding, then we wouldn't read every day about murders and mass shootings. In fact the gun lobby opposes anything that would make gun owners responsible for their actions or the actions of a person they foolishly loaned their gun to.
I know law-abiding gun owners, and not one of them would irresponsibly loan their gun to someone who couldn't get their own gun legally. If I loan my car to a drunk or an unlicensed driver who then injures or kills someone, I will be and should be held responsible. Everyone must be responsible for their own decisions, except, according to the gun lobby, gun owners.
Please don't respond with that other, equally tired lie, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." A gun in the wrong hands kills people. Just read the newspaper or watch the news for even one day and keep count.
What is also disturbing is that the Legislature is equally complicit, either because they lack courage, accept money from the gun lobby, or both. Blood is on their hands.
Connie W. Reed, Salt Lake City
