Letters: Gun politics’ strange math
- Share via
Re “Gun check effort fails in Senate,” April 18
The population of the United States is about 315 million. According to some polls, 90% of us support expanded background checks for gun purchases. The National Rifle Assn. has about 4.5 million members — less than 2% of the population.
When did 2% become the majority?
Louis Sanford
Studio City
ALSO:
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
In this episode, we bring you the update on how an Altadena resident and her neighborhood are coming along, plus a re-run of the two-part series we did on the Poppyfields people back in June.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
