Dear Editor,
I watched with interest the lines of cars and people waiting to turn in their guns for cash. It looked like a lot of the guns that were being turned in could never be fired because of their condition.
If that’s the case it did nothing for what someone was trying to accomplish. I’m sure there were other guns being turned in by law-abiding citizens that had no idea what was going on. I’m sure that none of these guns that were in operation were turned in by people that would be the ones who would do home invasions or armed robberies.
If I were a person looking to do a home invasion I could check the addresses of the ones who were turning in their guns and that would be a likely spot to do a home invasion because I would know the people in their home would have no protection.
I’m not quite sure what the agenda of some are – do we ask you to turn on your guns now, next tell you to turn in your guns and, if that doesn’t work, is it going to be we will come for your gun?
Some of the places that have strict gun laws are California as a state, Oakland, Washington D.C. and Chicago to name a few. These are some of the places that have the worst crime rate in the nation, so evidently these gun laws are not working. I do agree we need to control the people who are getting the guns to make sure that there are sufficient background checks. People who are purchasing guns should not be felons or people with mental illness.
A sheriff in one major city just advised people to keep a gun in their home for self protection because if a call is made to 911 for a home invasion it takes their police department 30 minutes to respond. I know it may only take 15 minutes for local police departments to come to the aid of a home that someone is trying to break into. As for me, rather than taking 15 minutes, it would take me 15 seconds to be ready to protect myself and my family from a home invasion.
The Obama administration keeps talking about the fact that they do not want to take guns away from hunters. We’re not talking about taking guns away from hunters, we’re talking about the rights of the Second Amendment.
It looks like our Constitution is being trampled on as time goes along. Wake up people we are a Republic controlled by the Constitution the way it is written not the way someone wants to rewrite it.
Erwin Boggs, Gilroy
