Letter: The Second Amendment Swallow the First | Letters to the Editor | tucson.com – Arizona Daily Star

Armed with an AR-15 and looking for trouble where you dont belong and werent invited allows you to shoot anyone you feel is a personal threat? You get to be the judge, jury, and executioner, especially if you are a white male.

Would those loudly applauding the Rittenhouse jurys verdict celebrate if he had been black? Absolutely not.

Charlton Heston, of Moses and NRA fame, proclaimed the second amendment to be the ''most vital'' of all the amendments and was ''more essential'' than the First Amendment. ''It is America's first freedom, the one that protects all the others. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that allows rights to exist at all.''

He got it backward. Streets filled belligerent white men in the latest camo fashions and semi-automatic weapons could get away killing those whove assembled to protest, say, Americas promiscuous gun laws. The killers then claim self-defense because they felt threatened. The First Amendment be damned.

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