letter to the editor

Time to get a gun?

Mon, 03/22/2021 - 3:30pm

Dear Editor:

We can all be thankful that Robert Aaron Long’s God-given and Constitutionally-protected Second Amendment rights were intact when he bought his 9mm handgun legally and without the bother of a waiting period, right before he murdered eight innocent people in Atlanta.

Odd, though, that guns are not allowed at the NRA annual meetings when their mascot, Donald Trump, is speaking and signing MAGA hats … or at Republican National Conventions.

Oh — and thoughts and prayers for the families who are mourning their dead in Georgia, where it’s easier to buy a gun than it is to vote.

Bill Hammond

Barters Island