Regarding the letter to the editor in the Dec. 1, Herald, “Constitution’s writers anticipated firearms’ development”: The author must be totally unfamiliar with the Second Amendment as the diatribe is way off target.
The author states: “A frequently expressed opinion by those wanting more gun control and/or restrictions is that the Second Amendment was meant to include firearms common to that period.”
This is a postulate unfamiliar to me. Clearly the text of the Second Amendment makes no mention of the types of “Arms people can bear.” The amendment, considering the time period, — “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state. …” — clearly was meant to provide our new country with a grass-roots army of sorts. Civilians, soldiers, men and women alike ready to defend our new country, the United States, from any threat to our sovereignty.
The rest is a nonsense attempt to support the original premise: “Like almost every other human development, firearms have constantly evolved,” — the way to kill more efficiently as is a characteristic of human nature.
The more frequently expressed opinion is why America hasn’t done more to prevent the access to these “constantly evolving firearms.” There are many firearms that are designed strictly for killing people. Any rapid-fire, large-capacity magazine weapon certainly will fall in that category. They certainly are not meant for public consumption.
The time to act is now. Here is a three-step plan that will reel in those misinformed Second Amendment provocateurs to the reality of “firearms common to that period.”
1: Ban the future sale of any type of assault weapon, any rapid-fire weapon, any type of weapon with a magazine capacity larger than 10 rounds. It doesn’t take an IQ above an earth worm to recognize weapons that fall in these categories.
2: Ban the private ownership of any weapons falling in the categories above. Any violation will result in an automatic lengthy prison sentence (say 20 years to life).
3: Current owners of weapons falling in categories above, both individually owned or current store/market inventory shall be entitled to a 100 percent cost refund from the manufacturer of these weapons of mass destruction, which they have profited from mightily for many years.
How many more lives will be lost before, well, we decide to act?
Bill Swedman
Duvall
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