Letter: Second Amendment is a safeguard
Letter: Second Amendment is a safeguard By Joseph Hamann, Camas Share: In Carl Scheuffele’s letter “Revise Second Amendment” (Our Readers’ Views, April 19) he mentions hunting twice and implies that the reason for the adoption of the Second Amendment was the necessity of having a firearm to hunt with. This is an often-stated point by those who want to restrict or eliminate gun ownership. It is of course completely false. It is misdirection. The founders understood that any and all governments have the potential and even the tendency to devolve into tyranny. They though...
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