Letter: Can't afford to disarm country, citizens

South Jersey Times By South Jersey Times South Jersey Newspapers
on April 14, 2013 at 3:17 AM, updated April 14, 2013 at 3:18 AM

To the Editor:

We all acknowledge that guns can be dangerous if they are in the wrong hands, but criminals will always find a way to obtain them illegally.

The government does not want law-abiding citizens to protect themselves. President Barack Obama and Congress use false reasoning. How are the president and his family protected? Security armed with guns.

The Constitution states that we have the right to bear arms to protect ourselves. Going against this and trying to change the Constitution would reduce us to a communist-like country and renounce our freedoms.

The government accepts young men at 18 and makes soldiers out of them, arms them, and sends them into war with a “it’s you or them” attitude. Many of them come back in body bags or disabled and/or psychologically damaged. We all know we have to protect our country. Should we disarm them?

We are still fighting in Afghanistan, but what have we really accomplished? Who really prevailed? Obama promised to bring our troops home as early as 2011, and it hasn’t happened, so you would have to call this a lie.

How do you explain to parents that their children made a great sacrifice and won’t be coming home? Lives are gone forever, all because countries cannot get along.

This leads to the same circumstances with citizens’ right to defend themselves and their families from harm’s way.

I agree there should be tough laws to acquire a gun. Could violent movies be playing a big part in how they are used?

Mary Daly