Dear Editor,
I don’t know why I am the only one who brings this up, but the Right to Bear Arms is the balance of power between the states and the federal government. See Art 1, Sec. 10, Para 3 of the Constitution. (No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace.)
People wonder why the word “Regulated” is used in the Second Amendment. The word “Regulation” was used in old military catalogs.
On the news reels I have seen both Presidents Truman and Eisenhower warn us of a conspiracy to disarm the population, which would probably tart with a presidential assassination. Then the perpetrators would dish out the wealth and rally the under-privileged behind them. I am not the only one who saw those news reels, so again I don’t know why I am the only one to bring this up.
As they explained it, there were two ways to throw the country into a dictatorship, one is government control of the defense industries and the other is disarmament of the population.
Civil rights laws, labor laws and environmental laws that are steps toward government control of the defense industries violate the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, while gun laws violate the Second Amendment.
Now, you wonder about the shootings. Suppose you are a conspirator and you happen to be a psychiatrist with a patient who is both homicidal and suicidal. I am sure you could program this patient to commit a mass shooting and then a suicide.
James Caldwell
Doyle, Calif.
