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Marc Slavin's avatar

Hal, now you have touched on a subject dear to my heart and soul. Of course, the founding fathers enabled us to protect ourselves against an army that was out of control or a government that was attempting to take our rights and freedom away. But they also intended for us to protect ourselves against intruders and people trying to do harm to one another. This is why we became the greatest nation and ultimately built the greatest armed forces in the world. It goes without saying that guns, bombs, knives, cars, trucks, and planes, don't kill people, people kill people. Look at the recent murders in Utah (4 murders with a knife). So people are constantly picking on guns. Go to Wyoming or most of the states that allow open carry. Murder rates basically are not existent, because people are allowed to protect themselves. The problem in this country is not guns it is mental health. You have half the population on some type of antidepressant drug. Maybe we should stop drug manufacturers from making drugs. The inner cities are the worst areas, with the strongest gun controls. Look at your home city Chicago with the most stringent gun controls in the US a liberal judicial system, with the highest murder rate in the nation. These are just really bad people. Guns have nothing to do with it. I live on the eastern shore of MD, where everyone owns a gun for either hunting or sport. We sure as hell don't have the killings here that you do in inner cities. Why, because the bad guys know that people here shoot back. One of the most important reasons behind our government was to protect its citizens. The problem that we have now is that our government will not protect law-bidding citizens. They are more interested in releasing mass murderers to kill again. Our right to bear arms is one of our greatest assets. That's why it was number 2. Take away our rights to protect ourselves and then you will see a country that will be weak. Next, the liberals will eliminate knives and cars. By the way, for your readers, the gun that was used at the Walmart in Chesapeake was a pistol, not a long gun. Biden immediately attacked the assault rifles. I guess his press secretary forgot to tell him that it was a pistol, not that he knows the difference. Thank god we have people standing up for our gun ownership rights.

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TedGoldman42@gmail.com's avatar

Our founding fathers did not have a private army (FBI) harassing and arresting mostly peaceful protestors at school board meetings, or many political opponents of this White House.

With rising violent crime in our Democratically run cities with strict gun regulations, and progressive aversion to holding criminals responsible for their violence, it is time all law abiding citizens should be required to own guns.

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