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EDITOR:
In response to Chris Daley’s Dec. 28 Opinion page column:
You quoted the Second Amendment correctly. However, like all good liberals you took part of the Second Amendment out of context and added your own interpretation to the statement, “A well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state…” To you, that sounded like the founding fathers intended gun owners to be members of a state or local militia and that you would be OK with that. However, after reading the full Second Amendment a couple of times, this is what I discovered. After “free state” there is a comma, not a period, which is used to indicate a slight pause.
…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed (to destroy or hinder). And what part of infringed do you not understand? What does it sound like after reading it in full context? If history is correct there was no state militia; only local people who made up the civilian militia who fought the redcoats. By the way, the British started the revolution by attempting to take the arms and ammunition from the “people.” There was no government to raise taxes to pay for a standing army; there were just the people who were willing to sacrifice their lives and their future to remain free and not be subservient to the British.
Anyway, I bet your brother, the Conservative, will agree with me? Also, I bet you put this in your column just to pull our chains out there, knowing you would get a response like mine.
I always enjoy yours and Wendy’s columns, I just don’t agree with you guys on this one.
HERM WILMOTH
Shingle Springs
@ Richurd, Dude; read first, comment later. That was a quote from Sheep, not me. I hope he’s not offended at your post.
Get your guns NRA Patriots, their coming; What do you get when you combine the president’s ability to secretly kill American citizens and the recent push to restrict gun access? One of the most bizarre anti-Obama conspiracy theories ever—and it takes a lot to win that prize. Various tea party activists, libertarian websites and other conspiracy-minded Obama haters are claiming that Russian security forces have discovered that Obama is about to unleash “death squads” across America to assassinate defenders of the Second Amendment. According to Liberty.com, one of the sites perpetuating this latest story, Russian intelligence has outlined the whole nefarious plot in a memo for President Vladimir Putin, detailing the Obama’s administration’s dispatch of “VIPER teams…which is the acronym for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team, a programme run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and whose agents terrify millions of Americans with Nazi-like Gestapo tactics on a daily basis at airports and who report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
James, I heartily agree, this topic has outlived its own relevance here. I’m quite surprised that, given the short attention span of the average majority voter, that this has survived the Super Bowl. Next, please? I’ve seconded your implied motion, anyone third?
The hatred and conspiracty theories are getting far worse in Obama’s second term.It is the new plots that Obama is killing Americans or setting up these horrific tragedies for his own agenda.It is beyond sickness and how does one deal with this rhetoric which is on most sites. The true believers are intent upon their beliefs that Obama is out to get them
Everyone knows the Lib’s aren’t “setting up” these horrible tragedies, but they sure do like to use them for their benefit…..
Richard: Do you know the difference between INFORMATION and DISINFORMATION?
James: Earlier you proposed changing the subject. You and Paddy are correct: This one has been rung dry. The possibility military sequestration would make a great LTE. Why not do it?