Founding documents don’t

allow all people all guns

Re: “US Constitution and Second Amendment for the people” (Letter to the editor, March 28):

The letter-writer displays the willful ignorance of the right that says or does anything to get its way regardless of facts, truth, honesty, morality, you name it.

His selectivity in choosing what words he wants to find in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is hypocrisy at its finest. “We the people” wrote the Second Amendment. And “We the people” chose to include in the Second Amendment language that qualified the people’s right to bear arms because a “well-regulated militia” is “necessary to the security of a free State.”

Notwithstanding the fact that a well-regulated militia was relevant in the 18th century but not so much in the 21st, nothing that the people wrote in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights entitles all people to own all guns at all times for any purpose.

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Eugene Ely

San Jose

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