LETTER: We must defend Second Amendment rights

William E. Mortis, Henderson

We need to protect our constitutional rights and that includes the Second Amendment rights. I cannot see how banning the sale of military-style assault weapons, conducting background checks, reducing large capacity magazines and registration of gun owners would be a violation of the Second Amendment rights.

No one is saying that there should or would be a ban on all guns. People who enjoy target practice and hunting, or feel they need a handgun in their home for protection, would still have that right, just not large capacity magazines. These military-style assault weapons have no business being available to the general public, especially the criminally insane and the criminals, any more than machine guns and sawed off shotguns. They are manufactured for the sole purpose to be used by the military and law enforcement personnel to kill humans.

I have written to my senators and representative about this. Sen. McConnell has not responded, but Sen. Paul and Rep. Whitfield did. I get from their response that they are not supportive of anything to try to stop gun violence in this country. They say that no matter what is done all of it can't be stopped and they support the Second Amendment.

So, because it would be impossible to stop all gun violence, nothing should be done to stop any and protect our children and citizens from being gunned down by a madman on a killing spree. I disagree. I think something should be done.

The people who are against this are gun lobbyists that pump millions of dollars into the campaigns of politicians and misinform the public of the facts so that they become afraid. The politicians only care about being re-elected, and the gun lobbyists only care about selling guns.

The people that say first the banning of assault weapons and then all guns are totally wrong. How in the world do they think this do-nothing Congress would ever pass any kind of legislation to ban all weapons? That will never happen.

All they do is go against everything good or bad in the House and filibuster everything in the Senate, obstruct and block everything. That is, when they show up for work.