Column: Ex-FBI Agent Says We Should Limit Gun Purchases

Edward P. Gibson was an FBI special agent from 1985 to 2005. He was in the U.S. Army from 1971-74 and a lawyer in the U.S. for a major corporation 1980-1985 and Chief cyber Security Advisor – Microsoft Ltd – UK from 2005 to 2009. He wrote this in response to a column by ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel supporting an ATF regulation requiring gun dealers in states bordering Mexico to report multiple sales of assault weapons.

By Edward P. Gibson

for ticklethewire.com

I totally understand how ‘pro guns’ might think it proper to allow anyone to buy as many guns as they want to ‘just because’, but those same people would be outraged if one of their own went on a rampage using one of the many automatics purchased whether or not within a 5 day period.

“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” – ahhh,how many times have I heard that.

Yes, that’s true, people kill people using guns so easily attainable. We have become a gun nut culture.

Limit the purchase of guns.