Opinion

A lesson from New Zealand

Posted March 20, 2019 11:00 pm

"New Zealand's coalition government plans to announce gun law changes within the next week in response to Friday's deadly shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch ..." How utterly amazing. In this country, in response to deadly mass shootings, our NRA-loving administration and legislators who hide behind a constitutional amendment adopted to protect our rights "to keep and bear arms," say "our thoughts and prayers go out - but we must protect the Second Amendment rights of our citizens" to own automatic weapons and other weapons never conceived by the framers of our Constitution. Perhaps we should send some legislators and administration officials to New Zealand so that they could learn how to legislate gun laws that protect our citizens. Our "national emergency" is not at our southern border - it's in Washington, D.C.

Gary L. McClung

Arlington Heights

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