Dear Editor:

Well here we are again and two new players step onto the field, Ms. Wing and Mr. Levin. Ms. Wing brings with her revisionist history, viewed not in context but through the lens of today. Yes, Ms. Wing, Leonidas may very well have been a tyrant in his own nation state but when the time came he stood in the gap with his Spartans against an even bigger tyrannical threat. The Persian empire had rolled up all the little nation states and brought them into subjugation and slavery and Leonidas wasn't having any of it. I suppose you could say that if anyone was doing any subjugating, it was going to be him. Xerxes didn't “ask,” Ms. Wing, he demanded the Spartans lay down their arms or face annihilation. History tells us, if you care to pay attention, that they refused saying quite literally “Having come, take.” So yes, Ms. Wing, my sign is appropriate for this fight for there are truly millions of American gun owners, men and women alike, who are saying, “If you want ’em come and get ’em,” for the infringement upon our right to self protection and self determination is that same subjugation in our eyes.

Mr. Levin brings the same tired old arguments that have been repudiated time and again but with a new twist. Apparently the cost of securing our schools and actually helping to protect our youth is too expensive. In one of his last paragraphs, he mentions “buybacks” for the banned firearms. With the estimated number of modern sporting rifles in America and their average cost, that price tag would be in the tens of billions, yes that is a B. If we look again, in an earlier paragraph Mr. Levin advocates the “taking away” of these firearms. Now there is an action the price of which the American public will quite certainly find too costly.

Molon Labe

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