RE: Gun Control

When will we have had enough? Week after week, month after month a mass shootings takes place, killing innocent adults and children. Each time we get the same old response of sympathy from politicians with no significant action on gun control. Why? Because of DC vs Heller, the erroneous SCOTUS interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens one of the dissenters in that decision stated; that "The forefathers, concerned that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century." Stevens further states; "During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” It is high time we begin the fight to rescind the 2nd Amendment, and enact sane gun restrictions in America. Our children deserve it.

–Robert Thomas, Castro Valley