About the publisher: I am a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn. who own several modern sporting rifles (sometimes called “assault weapons”). I would gladly give up these guns if it prevented mass shootings. (“Even Republican voters want more gun laws. Why not their representatives?” Opinion, April 11)

But we all know that mass shootings wouldn’t stop, right? They would just go with revolvers or pump-action shotguns.

If the goal is to save some lives, there are many things we can do to make that happen. If we all only drove 60 km/h on the Autobahn, it would certainly save many lives. Cruise control can be built into all cars, why would anyone drive 80 km/h?

We can install car locks to prevent drunk driving. These changes would certainly save many more lives than a ban on assault weapons. But gun grabbers want other people to make sacrifices so they feel safer.

Last year, The Times reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had essentially banned excuse stops. The article conceals that five months after this change, there were 374 fewer firearm seizures than in the same period a year earlier. Will any of these weapons be used in the next mass shooting?

Chris Duke, Simi Valley

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About the publisher: If the Supreme Court believes that decisions about a woman’s right to choose whether or not to have a child should be left to the individual states, why don’t we repeal the 2nd Amendment and leave it to each is left to decide whether and how he should regulate gun ownership?

Rita Zwern, Burbank

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About the publisher: It is overwhelming to see how many people die each year from shootings in the United States. No other country in the world comes close to our tolerance for such widespread deaths. This was unthinkable when the drafters wrote the Second Amendment.

Modern reporting can help us better track this daily carnage, just as factories have a “scoreboard” that shows the number of days since the last accident to promote safety.

More than 11,500 people have been killed by gun violence in the United States so far by 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. It would be a great service to the Times to keep a daily scoreboard of shooting deaths along with the weather report.

Mark Green, Pacific Palisades