Don't know jack about gun rights

Jack Lessenberry draws on a 1939 Supreme Court decision to support his opinion that individuals do not have a right to firearms. Apparently, he rejects the right to protect oneself from dictators and common criminals. Strangely it took 148 years from ratification of the U.S. Bill of Rights for 9 justices to determine that the natural right to bear arms really belongs to kings and governments, not individuals.

If Mr. Lessenberry were to actually read the Amendment, he would discover its reference to "the right of the people;" and were he to read The Federalist Papers, he would find this confirmed: "Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, Federalist No. 46)

I would expect Mr. Lessenberry, whose pantry is stocked through his right to free speech, to recognize how that right is protected by the right to bear arms.

[Letter to the Editor - The Metro Times. Published 05/02/2007.]