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Letters to the Editor: Concealing weapons won’t add to security

To the Journal editor:

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a not for profit corporation that provides online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence, 6,509 deaths and 12,767 injuries have been caused by gunfire in the United States in 2017.

The response has been the removal of restrictions on gun ownership by persons with a history of mental illness, and proposals to lift the ban on switch blade knives and legalize the possession of concealed weapons without a permit.

The next time you attend a parade or sporting event, or any other gathering that has attracted a crowd, you could be in the company of any number of mentally disturbed individuals who are armed and potentially dangerous.

Add alcohol or drugs to the occasion, and you might be in for the thrill of a lifetime. And when the shooting starts, you can draw your trusty .45 and return the fire coming at you from somewhere in the crowd of innocent bystanders, including women and children.

Why? Because the Constitution says that you can? Is this what the authors of the Second Amendment had in mind?

Perhaps we should ask our legislators what is on their minds as they propose laws that allow drunks, drug addicts and the mentally ill to wander in our midst with deadly weapons hidden on their persons.

Nino E. Green

Escanaba

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