To the editor:
I would like to thank my brother in arms, Mr. Don Bendell, for his fine editorial. Rarely do contributors to the editorial page have such a clear vision of the issue. However, I fear that Don's comments do not go far enough to explain the issue of guns in our society. I would like to make the following point.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution has nothing to do with hunting, but everything to do with liberty. Mr. Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News network was wrong when he suggested that a single man armed with an AR-15 could not fend off the entire U.S. Army. He missed the point entirely, as do those in Washington!
Hundreds or perhaps thousands of citizens armed may not be able to defeat the Army, but they may achieve in giving the Army a bloody nose. And why is that important? If in the event our nations' leaders turn on the citizens to deny them their Constitutional and God-given rights, the citizens must rise up against the tyrannical government.
The citizens may not win the eventual military victory, but we the citizens of this United States of America will refuse to go quietly into the night.
Extreme? Ask the citizens of Syria who are poorly armed with only AK-47s and who have no training why they are thumbing their nose at the Assad government. Let us pray to God that it does not come to that here in the USA!
As for the tragic events in Connecticut, I suggest the authorities examine why the shooter and his entire family were denied the help they so desperately needed?