Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Voters have power to reduce gun deaths
The gun massacres continue: eight killed in Atlanta, 10 in Colorado and four in California, all within two weeks!
This is a killing epidemic that Congress has chosen to prolong for decades, even though most Americans favor protective laws.
The Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, was modeled after a 1689 English common law to assure that a “militia” could be organized to fight against a dangerous monarch.
Our dangerous “monarch” has become those we allow to purchase guns without background checks or registration. The weapons they use are far more lethal than anything our founders could have imagined.