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Second Amendment wasn’t intended for assault rifles; Linda Vetterly (LV); Beaver County Times; March 4, 2018.
Previous Vetterly letters I reviewed were “No excuse for Trump supporting Roy Moore,” “It’s time to spread love, not hate,” “President should represent the people, not get them killed,” “What’s it going to take to impeach Trump?,” “Trump has done nothing to improve the country,” “Trump needs to go before it’s too late,” “Trump threatens our status throughout the world,” and “Relieving real desperation.”
Below is a review of the subject letter.
“No one other than the military should own an assault rifle. You don’t use them to hunt or to protect yourself from burglars.”
[RWC] “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” - Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Please read my review of the Second Amendment. It addresses most of LV’s issues. I don’t know if LV understands the purpose of Amendment II.
“People take the Second Amendment way too far. The Second Amendment does not say people should own assault rifles. They are designed for killing and not for anything else.”
[RWC] Regarding “The Second Amendment does not say people should own assault rifles,” LV needs to read the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Amendment X: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
“Allowing trained teachers to have guns is not a bad idea. When a trained and armed security guard like the one in Florida does not enter the building to stop a mad gunman from taking lives and the FBI ignores tips, then something needs to be done. All of those children with great potential and their whole lives ahead of them are killed for no reason. Things have to change.”
[RWC] I’m not a fan of teachers – trained or not - packing heat in schools. If a school district believes it needs armed protection of its schools, that protection should come from fulltime, armed police officers and/or private security guards trained for this specific mission.
“Handguns and assault rifles are made for killing and aren’t good for anything else. I believe in the Second Amendment, but it was designed so people could have guns to hunt and feed their families or protect their homes. All of this needless killing has got to stop. We’ve become a nation filled with violence and President Trump is encouraging it. Our future is in danger.”
[RWC] Where on Earth did LV get the idea “the Second Amendment … was designed so people could have guns to hunt and feed their families or protect their homes?”
As for “President Trump is encouraging” violence, LV “forgot” the Donald Trump (DT) rally at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on April 13, 2016. Referring to a video he posted of anti-Trump demonstrators confronting people attending the rally, Carl Davidson (KD) of Beaver County Reds wrote,
“THE PITTSBURGH YOUNG ‘PRECARIAT’ gives Trump a proper greeting. Two things are notable. The clarity of the young women, Black [sic] and white. Then a ‘producerist vs parasite’ right wing populism and jingoism from the other side.” – KD; 4/14/16 @ 8:58am.
Apparently, KD’s idea of “a proper greeting” is for his fellow travelers to attack Pittsburgh Police officers trying to keep people – both anti- and pro-Trump supporters - from getting hurt. I don’t know when, but it appears KD eventually decided it was a bad political idea to have a “paper trail” of his support for violence against Pittsburgh Police officers. As a result, KD deleted his “proper greeting” post sometime before October 7, 2016. That’s why trying to open the “proper greeting” link above results in the following Facebook error message: “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now.”
In addition to the violence, acts like this also demonstrate KD’s idea of free speech. While KD claims to support the First Amendment, which pertains only to government, he supports the practice of shutting up his opposition by shouting down or otherwise disrupting his opposition’s efforts to make their case, even if it includes violence.
“When I went to school, things like this didn’t happen. When they took corporal punishment out of the schools, that’s when this started. Now the schools have metal detectors and security guards. People should be in school to learn and shouldn’t have to worry about getting killed. This is out of hand and needs to stop.”
[RWC] Though I agree with most of this paragraph, I don’t blame the absence of corporal punishment.
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