Armed protesters demonstrate for First and Second Amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va.
Toby Jorrin, Associated Press
Our founding fathers recognized that the most important element of our United States of America was the people, not the politicians or the military. At the time our Constitution was established, along with the Bill of Rights, the people could not protect themselves from tyrants. Thus in the Second Amendment to the Constitution we were given the power and right to own arms to protect ourselves.
Now we have those at present who say that we need to ban guns. Well, let's hear or read what our founding fathers also said in the Second Amendment, that the right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed. What does "infringed" mean? Some synonyms are: invade, trespass, violate intrude, transgress, contravene and break.
Cars and trucks killed 33,965 people in 2011 and in the same year 1,546,000 people were injured. Shall we ban cars and trucks also?
Verle D. Solt
West Valley City
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I am a shooting enthusiast and was for many years a member of the NRA. I cancelled my membership about 15 years ago when it became clear that rather than being an effective gun rights organization, they had become simply a rightwing fundraising More..
Quote: "At the time our Constitution was established, along with the Bill of Rights, the people could not protect themselves from tyrants. "
Nope, people had guns the whole time, that how they defeated the british which preceded More..
"Now we have those at present who say that we need to ban guns."
Please be more specific on that statement. Who is "those at present" and what guns are they proposing to ban?
Cause that mentality seems to be More..