Second Amendment About More Than Just Hunting
To the editor:Addressing the FCR edition of Letters to The Editor on Friday, July 29, 2022, regarding the letter on “Support Assault Weapons Ban.” That letter is probably one of the most ridiculous letters I’ve read in a while.
Let’s clear up the misunderstanding either intentional or not on what constitutes an assault weapon vs. an AR-15. AR-15-style rifles are NOT “assault weapons” or “assault rifles.” An assault rifle is fully automatic, like a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934. If someone calls an AR-15 style rifle an “assault weapon,” then they’ve been duped by a political agenda. Also, the AR in AR-15 doesn’t mean assault rifle it stands forArmalite Rifle.Now to set the record straight when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and the rights our Constitution guarantees toAmericans.The 2nd Amendment states “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Free State beingthe point.The author states, “A literal detailed interpretation of the Second Amendment is that it guarantees the rights of citizens to bear rifles, pistols and shotguns which in those days only had limited capacity magazines” Of all the comments in that letter, this illustrates very effectively how the Kool Aid drinking liberals think. The 2nd Amendment is one sentence: concise and specific. In addition, if the 2nd Amendment applied only to the types of weapons that existed in 1783, the writers of the 2nd Amendment would have listed those weapons. The reality is the Founders of this country were well educated and forwardthinking men. They weren’t so naïve to believe that weapons would not advance in the future which is why they used the term “arms.” Really not that hard tounderstand.The men who wrote the 2nd Amendment did not just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation from tyranny. The Democratic Party and the political left are well aware that as long as Americans are armed, they will never be able to turn this country into a dictatorship. It’s why they want to strip the 2nd Amendment out of our Constitution and disarm the lawabiding populous.The Second Amendment not only grants us the right to bear arms; more importantly, it denies the government the authority to infringe upon our right tobear arms.“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” - Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 One thing that apparently is hard to understand for people like the one who authored the letter is that weapons don’t kill on their own. I’ve left my weapon out on the dining room table for a week. Never once in that time did it jump off the table and go on a killing spree. It’s a shame that this statement has to be repeated over and over. People kill people; whether it’s by guns, knives, cars, etc. For all our advancements as humans, we are still a savage species.
And to address this comment “These weapons have only two uses: (1) use by demented individuals to commit multiple murders”. and (2) recreational obliteration of targets and wildlife.” To No. 1, demented individuals have used any number of methods to kill; people who use semi-automatic weapons are the cases that get the most airtime as it fits into the democrat agenda. No. 2 It’s always immediately apparent when someone has no idea the difference between an automatic weapon and a semiautomatic weapon. Semi-automatic weapons are single shot fire. Meaning one has to pull the trigger each time to shoot; just like a hunting rifle; just like a handgun. So, no obliteration oftargets and wildlife.And you’re right, everyone should contact their congressmen and tell them to vote againstthis bill.By the way, Americans can own cannons as well as things like grenade launchers, and tanks. Any law-abiding citizen could own several different military type weapons. Which means they are covered under the 2nd Amendment as well. With the proper registration and background check of course.
Biden: You don’t need a gun with a 30-round clip to hunt! We the People: Correct. But the 2nd Amendment wasn’t written in case the deer turned on us.
Sandy Hooper, La Grange