Friday's Letters to the Editor  Accountability laws  EDITOR: A
simple two-step solution to guns would avoid bureaucracy and
judgmental laws that question the rights of people to own such
things. It can be applied to any dangerous thing or substance.
&amp;#149 Make if a federal offense to commit a crime with a
thing or substance demonstrably and significantly endangering
others and traded across state lines.  &amp;#149 The owner of
said thing or substance serves the same sentence as the
criminal, even if the latter is a child or is dead and even if
the weapon was stolen, unless the weapon or substance was
secured by a method only a professional criminal could
circumvent.  This would require registration of dangerous things
and a license to use them, which is already commonly done with
motorcycles, prescription drugs and nitroglycerine. It can be
extended to guns, ammunition and LSD.  Judgmental laws violate
religious freedom. Laws should protect people against the
advertent or inadvertent actions of others, n