Gun Control Controversy
I have never agreed with The Times editorials and biased reporting on the subject of gun control. The Feb. 16 article “Will the Debate Over Gun Control Ever End With an Answer?” (Political Forecast, Opinion) particularly incensed me. In typical Times fashion you interviewed only those police chiefs who would give an opinion that The Times would find politically correct.
The gentlemen interviewed in the article were quite frankly dead wrong about the Constitution only granting militias the right to bear arms. In four separate decisions the Supreme Court has found that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep and bear arms. The same wording used in the Second Amendment was also used in the First and Fourth Amendments.
If people agreed with these men and The Times, our right to peaceably assemble and be free from unreasonable searches and seizures would be in jeopardy.
MICHAEL THOMAS
El Toro
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