Brick, N.J.: The obstinacy of the entire Republican Party in defending and promoting citizen ownership and carry of any and all types of killing machines runs counter to its self-proclaimed “pro-life” stance. The GOP platform violates a number of the Founding Fathers’ stated purposes in establishing a new form of government. It violates the first purpose in our preamble — to form a more perfect union. How does the massacre of thousands of innocent Americans make this a more perfect union?