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Some congressmen are making fools of themselves by having a "sit-in" demanding gun-control legislation be passed.
Homicide by guns is at a 51-year low right now, even though gun ownership has risen by 141 percent over that same period.
The problem is a few radical extremists who try to kill as many people as possible, not with rational law-abiding citizens who own a gun.
The more than 300 million guns out there in American homes actually make our nation a much safer place. Why the Democrats can't understand that is truly baffling.
And those of us who own and carry guns know that incremental legislation is merely an attempt to eventually reach total confiscation.
Our God-given, natural, fundamental, unalienable, constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms can never be taken away by anyone. Not ever. It's our last protection against a tyrannical government.
James Green
Heber City