Once again the slaughter continues in the "home of the brave and the land of the free."

This time the slaughter takes place in a church. In Sandy Hook and Columbine it was in schools,a military base known as Fort Hood in Texas. A University in Blacksburg,Virginia, a congresswoman and the public in Arizona, all at the hands of deranged gun-toting individuals who the NRA and the Right Wing say is their "Constitutional right"

Aside from the fact that the Second Amendment provides for "a WELL REGULATED militia" consisting of citizen soldiers, the Second Amendment never was intended to allow for street gangs and mental defectives to arm themselves with "Streetsweepers" or AK-47s to annihilate any innocent American child or adult they see as their enemy

In fact back in the 1780s, you were lucky if you could get off two rounds in a minute from a musket. Now, you can get off dozens in a second!

Once again the gun nuts of America will clamor that "guns don't kill people" or "it's my Constitutional right to own anything that can fire a projectile from the muzzle of a gun."

The NRA opposed banning HOWITZERS and MACHINE GUNS and, get this, armor piercing bullets!

In 2011, the latest year available from FBI records, some 9,369 gun homicides took place in the USA as opposed to 72 in all the British Isles and none in Iceland. But guns don't kill people.

People can own guns in England or Iceland, for that matter, but the word REGULATED is the operating influence in saner societies.

In the US, morality and humaneness take a back seat to the political plum that guns mean to the Right and their fellow travelers, so many equate gun control to castration!

Would any American choose to live in a nation where you aren't safe in a church, school, university or military base?

Harry Tenney (Electronic mail, June 19, 2015)