To the editor: Visitor contributor Adam Winkler’s op-ed in regards to the affect of the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals’ choice to permit open carry of firearms in California demonstrates as soon as once more the folly of “originalism” and the necessity to repeal and exchange the 2nd Modification (“The Supreme Court docket made a large number out of gun legal guidelines,” Jan. 8).
The patchwork of contradictory gun legal guidelines in states throughout the nation endangers all of us. The U.S. has one of many highest charges of gun loss of life on this planet, and the prices in hospital payments for the injured, regulation enforcement and court docket instances add as much as billions of {dollars} a yr. It’s time to cease the hand-wringing, “ideas and prayers” and taking pictures websites affected by candles and flowers and finish the obscene reverence for the 2nd Modification.
Bob Ladendorf, Los Angeles
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To the editor: If we’re going to argue that laws are invalid as a result of they didn’t exist within the period of the musket, we should apply that very same logic to the weapons themselves. You can’t declare an 18th-century proper for a Twenty first-century killing machine. It leaves us to marvel: If the definition of a “firearm” retains increasing whereas the laws stay frozen up to now, the place does the insanity finish?
John Arcos, Lengthy Seashore
