To the Editor:

As I have said on many occasions, anti-gunners like to ignore the very important comma sign in the second Amendment, indicating a completely new part of the text: “… the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” has nothing to do with the right of a state to have a well regulated militia. Those are two very different statements.  

Furthermore, there is no such thing as an “assault rifle.” Assault is a state of mind, not a type of rifle — another very important thing that anti-gunners deliberately ignore. The “AR” in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifles, the model being Number 15. 

By not owning a gun, anti-gunners open themselves and their family members to violence inflicted upon them, without those family members being allowed to defend themselves. The fact that anti-gun gun grabbers refuse to defend themselves is akin to suicidal tendencies. That’s OK, it’s their own life they want to throw away. 

Still people are interned for less serious health issues of self harm. But denying their family members the constitutional right to defend themselves is nothing less than abuse. Child abuse if they are minors. Not only are they denying them their constitutional rights, you are jeopardizing their lives! I believe that is a crime in itself, endangering the lives of others. At the very least it should be. 

Owning a gun is not seeing more people murdered but preventing people from being murdered, even gun-grabbing anti-gunners. Call it our civic duty to prevent self-harm to anti-gunners! 

To end this letter, the guns ending up in wrong hands are almost never the legally owned guns. Criminals will always find a way to get a gun. 

One more thing, two things actually. Someone who refuses to own a gun but calls himself a gun owner is a liar. Someone who opposes the right of others to own a gun under the Constitution is not a second Amendment supporter but a liar.

Gino De Neef

Franklin