Letter: Forget large-magazine bans and universal background checks

It’s time to get rid of all

guns to stop the killings

We the people have changed. The guns have changed.

No longer can we tolerate an armed civilian population. No longer can we misinterpret the “well regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment to our U.S. Constitution.

Forget the ban on large magazines. Forget the universal background checks. Just get rid of all the guns. We don’t need them. They are killing us. It’s time for us to grow up. We’re not on the frontier anymore. We don’t need to hunt for food.

Guns were fun, but we couldn’t police ourselves. If you need to protect your home, get a dog. Start by banning the manufacture, import and sale of all guns, especially semi- and fully automatic weapons. Buy them back and melt them down.

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Terry Horner

Lafayette

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