Quite an imagination
Responding to the letter “Regulate firearms” (Sept. 6-7) referring to a previous letter “Armed citizenry” (Aug. 28), the author describes this hypothetical shootout in a mall between an armed crazy person opening fire with several citizens returning fire and within a few seconds it’s a chaotic bloodbath and our lawfully armed citizens are shooting each other willy-nilly.
That’s quite an imagination and could have the biased lame-stream media outlets desperately competing for prime time breaking news.
The “Armed citizenry” letter did not imply for citizens to arm themselves “to the teeth, as if Armageddon were just around the corner.”
It was to show a way with the safe use of firearms by responsibly armed citizens that these maniacs can be stopped.
Does the writer propose that we not stop the murderers, disarm the citizenry and all become targets instead?
It’s further stated that we should “consider enacting laws to regulate the ownership and use of firearms — training, license, registration and insurance, just like owning a motor vehicle,” as if there aren’t enough regulations already in I-1639.
Owning a motor vehicle is a privilege, not an unalienable right defined in the Constitution.
I would, armed or not, insanely try to stop the killer.
Just sayin’.
Roger M. Foszcz,
Port Angeles