"Go get their ass," E.S. Secrease, Coalinga, Calif., advised the NRA.

"My wife and I would like to add our voices to those of other readers urging you to rethink the anti-gun news thrust of USA TODAY, and do a real service to this country by championing productive crime-control measures," said Bradford and Doris Cummings, New Bern, N.C.

"To solve a problem, you must attack the cause," wrote Robert Tinsley, Albuquerque, N.M. "Guns are a symptom. By attacking that symptom, you are in danger of depriving me and others of a basic right of humankind: the right of self-preservation."