Pro-Second Amendment

There were two good Pro-2nd Amendment letters to the Editor in the Detroit Free Press recently, in response to an anti-gun article. This is unusual for the Freep, which has a long history of... well... lifting up their leg when writing about the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, the Freep only allows something like 100 words to make your point, and they reserve the right to "edit" these words "for clarity." Probably like they reserve the right to misquote whoever they want. Anyways, this is a minor miracle, so enjoy the next 12 seconds of reading:

Criminals want more gun laws

It doesn't matter to the criminal if we have one law or 1 million laws; violent criminals are lawbreakers. But if we are speaking about "sensible gun laws," the criminals will give you their full support, as they prefer to rob, steal and rape unarmed victims.

Criminals do not play by the rules, but the ordinary citizen has to. Sensible gun laws are simply making it more and more difficult for ordinary citizens to purchase guns legally for self-defense. Give the good guys a break and focus our energy on enforcing and prosecuting existing law.

Jay S. Jeffrey
St. Clair Shores

Get tougher on lawbreakers

Wrong again! Instead of knocking the National Rifle Association and irritating peaceful, law-abiding gun owners with more dumb laws, how about really getting down on those who break our present laws and then get light or no punishment?

Maybe you should do a study. Perhaps you might find that law enforcement and prosecutors are not doing a very sterling job of capturing, prosecuting, convicting and punishing people who get away with breaking our already formidable gun regulations.

Joe Doremire
Bakersfield, Calif.


Tags: Second Amendment , guns