Issue at stake is protecting us from guns
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
It is not a question of honoring our Constitution along with our Second amendment right to bear arms. The "red meat" issue in question is not deer or pheasant or quail or our sporting ability to provide our tables with fresh meat or our walls with trophies.
The most serious question is the murder of innocents by sociopathic or drugged killers who have been ignored and even abused into a state of violent crazed anger.
Pope Francis asks us to turn from negative legalese to the "language of the heart." Do we always want to take on the spirit of revenge or do we want to listen to Jesus' last words before He was arrested: "Put down your swords"?
A rational national policy of restraining access to high-powered, high-capacity highly effective assault weapons of mass murder should be voted on, again and again, until every member of Congress voting for murder and the slaughter of pure and innocent children is thoroughly disgraced, or it is passed.
Are we voting to be a nation against God or a nation that loves God and forgives and loves our neighbor?
George E. Bedingfield
Arlington Heights