Responds to Murphy letter
In response to the opinion by Mike Murphy, first let me say symbols mean different things to different people. I’m sick and tired of somebody claiming to be “offended” by something done by somebody else, then turning around and offending others while claiming it is their “right.” (Pants below the butt for example.)
Second, there are no “practical gun laws.” The Second Amendment guarantees every American the right to own and carry firearms for protection against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Every current law regulating who may or may not have guns is unconstitutional. The SCOTUS just refuses to do its job and declare them wrong because the justices are too focused on political correctness. There is no clause in the Constitution that guarantees people the right to own and drive a car!
Third, civility and kindness have all but disappeared because Liberals confuse the meaning of the First Amendment. The government may not establish or endorse a “state religion,” such as Christianity, but allowing prayer in public schools does not, as many claim, establish a state religion. When God was removed from schools, the Devil moved in, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I deplore the senseless loss of life in every mass shooting, but every one of them occurred in a “gun-free zone.” Do you get the correlation yet? These cowardly killers knew there was little chance of anybody else having a gun in every one of them.
Make the use of a weapon during the commission of a crime an enhanced charge, and if a death occurs during that crime, make the penalty death. We must attack the people committing crimes instead of the tools they use. Otherwise we make victims easier to find and harder to protect themselves. The bottom line is: If you don’t want to own/carry a gun for protection, don’t; if you do want to protect yourself and your family, nobody has any right telling you that you can’t.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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