Rifles, foreground, and handguns are displayed for gun show participants in Marietta, Ga. on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. As gun control talks heat up in Washington, more than 1,000 people lined up Saturday morning outside the exhibit hall at Jim Miller Park in Cobb County for the Eastman Gun Show.
Mike Stewart, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Those who claim the Second Amendment is no longer needed fail History 101. The "right to bear arms" was not intended to protect the government; it was to protect the people from the government. And the Founding Fathers greatly feared the very standing army that some argue is now in place to protect us.
Even if the Second Amendment is about hunting, semi-automatic firearms have very legitimate sporting uses.
It is my hope that any legislation to come out of the recent tragedies are not based on hysteria and ignorance, but on fact — like the fact that the Clinton "assault weapons" ban did not lower crime. Unfortunately, I know better.
Drew Allen
Grantsville
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So, as you say semi automatic weapons have 'sporting' uses and as such you're willing to accept the occasional shooting rampage rather than inconvenience the 'sportsmen'? In addition you feel that we have to be ready as More..
No right is absolute.
You can't yell "fire!" In a crowded theater and then claim a First Amendment right to free speech. You can't publish a newsletter advocating violent revolution.
You similarly can't More..
The rest of the world watches violent movies and plays violent video games just like we do, but these shootings are much, much fewer and farther between outside of America. Blaming them is a cop out and a deflection.