Viewpoints
RE: Politicians won't stand
up to gun lobby
By Thomas McDonald
April 24, 2007
Tuesday PM
I would like to address Dan K Thomasson's commentary " Politicians
won't stand up to gun lobby". I believe Mr. Thomasson's
rant against the N.R.A. is typical of the intellectual dishonesty
of the media. I also believe it is an attack on The Bill Of Rights.
Mr Thomasson would be outraged if I , or anyone else for that
matter, would advocate taking away his First Amendment right
to freedom of speech or freedom of the press. If one examines
The Bill Of Rights The First Amendment speaks of " the right
of the people peaceably to assemble". The Second Amendment
says "A well regulated Militia,being necessary to the security
of a free state {free from government tyranny} the right of the
people {the same people in The First Amendment} to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed". In The Fourth Amendment it
reads "The right of the people {the same people as in The
First and Second Amendments} to be secure in their persons, houses,
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not
be violated". I believe Mr.Thomasson's rant is an attack
on The Bill Of Rights not the N.R.A. but he is either not brave
enough {or possibly not smart enough } to see that what he attacks
is the same document that affords him the right to his freedom
of speech and the press. You can not pick out parts of The Bill
Of Rights that you wish to destroy without putting the document
in its entirety in peril. Mr.Thomasson has to recognize that
the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments refer to the right of
the people. If you remove the right of the people in the Second
Amendment, then you destroy the rights of the same people in
the First and Fourth Amendments. Anytime Mr. Thomasson wishes
to engage in a Constitutional debate, I would be more than willing
to participate in such an intellectual exchange. But my perspective
will be just that, intellectual and not emotional.
Thomas McDonald
Erwinna, PA
Received April 24, 2007 - Published April 24, 2007
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Politicians won't stand up to gun lobby By DAN K. THOMASSON - Missing from
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the gun culture that has brought us to this excruciatingly sad
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