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Editorial: Why 'Second Amendment people' should be at the ... - Wyoming Tribune

We cannot ignore mass shootings. We are, none of us, safe anywhere. Even most gun owners are willing to limit and restrict guns to increase public safety.

Whenever public attention for gun control increases, silly season for some gun advocates begins. Using the word enshrined, they describe the Second Amendment like a religious relic. Enshrined means revered as a sacred object. The founders wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution. They did not enshrine it.

The preamble to the Constitution begins, We the people to form a more perfect Union. It tells us that no one part of the Constitution is sacred by itself because our union is imperfect, and we can therefore improve it. Immediately after writing the Constitution, the founders, striving for a more perfect union, amended the Constitution and contisnued the process 27 times. Congress repealed one of the 27 amendments. The 21st repealed the 18th Amendment Prohibition, a bad idea. State and federal legislatures have limited and restricted some of the remaining amendments. Legislatures have limited our Fifth Amendment right to due process with tort reforms. Recently, legislatures in some states are limiting First Amendment rights by banning books from libraries.

We can limit or repeal the Second Amendment because it is no different from other amendments. Guns are causing chaos in society and undermining domestic tranquility. The Second Amendment was a bad idea. Slave states feared slave rebellions. They refused to ratify the Constitution without the right to bear arms. So, the founders added it to the Constitution. In recent years, the NRA and Republican Party corrupted the Second Amendment into a worse idea. We can strive toward a more perfect union to insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves. We can do this by limiting or repealing the Second Amendment.

Joseph Sciarillo

Westerly

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Letter: We need to limit or repeal the 2nd Amendment - The Westerly Sun

CBC Editorial: Wednesday, April 19, 2023; editorial #8842

The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company

It is only common sense to most North Carolinians, that before someone can buy a handgun whether from a federally-licensed firearms dealer, a vendor at a gun show or even an acquaintance -- theres a check to be sure that person isnt:

Common sense.

Common sense.

Lobbyist Caldwells support for permit repeal and Blackwoods acceptance isnt shared by all sheriffs.

Why isnt it common sense among our legislators to do MORE, not less, so guns dont get into the hands of those who we know will make our communities more dangerous?

Capitol Broadcasting Company's Opinion Section seeks a broad range of comments and letters to the editor. Our Comments beside each opinion column offer the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about this article.

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Editorial: Keeping guns out of dangerous hands doesn't weaken Second Amendment - WRAL News

21 April 2023

Image source, Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post

A March 2023 protest against gun violence in Denver, Colorado.

Ringing the wrong doorbell.

Driving up the wrong road.

Approaching the wrong car.

Losing a ball in a neighbour's yard.

These are the common mistakes for which everyday Americans have been shot over the past seven days - one of them as young as six.

Rather than mass shootings, it is these smaller incidents that account for a majority of firearms deaths and injuries in the US. And this week illustrated how these isolated acts accumulate into a larger portrait of gun violence in America.

"The main type of incidents that we have are one or two people get shot," said Mark Bryant, director of the Gun Violence Archive. They have calculated 165 mass shootings so far this year, but thousands of smaller incidents.

But an average of 50 people die each day in the United States from non-suicide gun incidents, and roughly 100 are injured, according Mr Bryant and the Gun Violence Archive.

Mass shootings are a small amount of the overall gun violence incidents in the country, he said. Those large casualty events "get extra attention", but make up only about 6% of total injuries and deaths.

Instead, many are stories like that of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old black teenage boy from Missouri, who was shot and wounded by a white homeowner after he mistakenly rang the man's doorbell on 13 April.

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Watch: Ralph's mother, Cleo Nagbe, says her son's injuries will stay with him

Or Kaylin Gillis, a 20-year-old woman shot and killed on 15 April when she and her friends mistakenly drove up the wrong driveway in New York state and a homeowner opened fire.

Or two high school cheerleaders who approached the wrong car in a Texas parking lot on 18 April, only for a man to get out and start firing and seriously wound one of them.

Or a six-year-old girl and her father in North Carolina, who were shot on 18 April after police say their basketball rolled into the alleged shooter's yard.

"The bullet came back and the bullet went in my cheek," the small girl told a local news station.

And those are just the stories that made national headlines.

"Gun violence touches every community in some way shape or form, even if it's less visible than some large mass shooting," said Kelly Drane, the law centre research director for gun safety advocacy group Giffords.

"It has felt very real to a lot of people this week: gun violence happens across our country every day," she said. "It takes an enormous toll on this nation."

Not all American communities are impacted equally; black people die due to firearms at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group in the US. Firearm-related deaths rose sharply among black and Hispanic children during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The shootings take place against a backdrop of increasingly polarised debates over access to and use of guns in the United States. Supporters of gun rights argue for fewer restrictions for purchasing, using, and carrying firearms, while proponents for gun safety continue to push for rules that limit access.

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees Americans the right to firearms, though to what degree is a matter of heated political and legal debate.

Conservatives, who often support Second Amendment rights, place the blame for gun violence on a broader mental health crisis or increased crime. Liberals, who tend to favour stricter gun regulation, point to levels of access to firearms in the US as the cause of the violence.

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Watch: How Republicans intend to solve mass shootings

As of 20 April 2023, 12,719 people have died so far this year in gun violence incidents, according to data provided by the Gun Violence Archive. Their methodology includes a broad range of incidents, including accidents, officer involved shootings, armed robberies, mass shootings, familicide, murder, and defensive gun use.

Since 13 April, the day Ralph Yarl visited the wrong house, there have been 845 gun-related incidents in the United States, according to preliminary data from the Gun Violence Archive.

A small fraction of these incidents did not involve any shots fired, such as one 13 April incident where an adult left a loaded gun in the bathroom of an Atlanta, Georgia, primary school.

Overall, those 845 incidents led to 743 injuries and 328 deaths.

Next week, there will be more.

Chelsea Bailey, Brandon Drenon and Madeline Halpert contributed to this report.

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Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis and other senseless shootings rattle US - BBC

Published April 22. 2023 07:52AM

Columnist Bruce Frassinelli recently broached the hot-button issue of our Second Amendment liberties and the civilian AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. He shouldnt have. Mr. Frassinelli is obviously out of his water on this topic and displayed a stunning degree of ignorance of the subject matter. His column contains so many misrepresentations and inaccuracies that its difficult to know where to begin a rebuttal. Since Mr. Frassinelli makes repeated reference to, and relies upon, the results of a 2022 Washington Post poll of AR-15 owners, lets start there.

The Washington Post is a far left anti-gun publication. Its a staunch anti-Second Amendment partisan and its editorials reflect that. So too, its polls and surveys. Anything the Post writes on the subject is biased propaganda. In other words, the Post has a horse in the race and this 2022 poll is just its latest attempt to dupe the uninformed and naive populace.

The Posts AR-15 poll is demonstrably fraudulent and self-refuting, hardly authoritative as Mr. Frassinelli claims. For instance, the Post makes the absurd assertion that no one should own an AR-15, even though (as the Post itself admits) its the most popular civilian rifle in America today - a rifle that 16 million Americans legally own.

Mr. Frassinelli thinks the AR-15 is a heavy-duty weapon. I suggest he pay attention to what most area deer hunters are carrying in the field for evidence of heavy-duty weapons. There are any number of .300 caliber rifles in use for big game hunting that are far more powerful than the AR-15. Many of these .300 caliber rifles are semi-automatics with box magazines, like the AR-15.

Mr. Frassinelli expresses disdain for firearms because of an incident with an air-powered BB-gun in his youth. Lets keep in mind that a Red Ryder BB-gun is not a firearm. He says he has never held a gun in his hand since that incident. Thats his choice to make. By the same token, Mr. Frassinelli might want to stay in his own lane and confine his opinions to matters hes familiar with and can write intelligently about.

Ernie Foucault

Kresgeville

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Columnist is wrong about AR-15 rifles Times News Online - tnonline.com