The people who are pushing for a ban on AR-15-style semi-automatic weapons and other more stringent gun controls should study the “Law of Unintended Consequences.”
Our borders are porous — virtually non-existent. Drugs and foreigners enter the country illegally and unimpeded on a daily basis. You can implement all the bans and gun-control laws you want — even confiscate all of the weapons currently in the country (which some people would like to see). Within a short time you would see a massive influx of real assault weapons, such as fully automatic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, etc., which would be readily available on the black market to criminals and terrorists. These weapons would be unleashed on a defenseless population.
The leaders and wannabe leaders of this country who are pushing ineffective gun-control measures need to identify and deal with the real problems.
Ed Barthlome, Littleton
Assault weapons and large-capacity magazines didn’t exist when the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enacted. All that existed at that time were single-shot, front-end-loaded muskets. So, the ratifiers of the Second Amendment could not have intended or imagined that citizens should be allowed to own these weapons or would include them in our constitutional right to bear arms. In my view, it is for this reason, if for no other, that they should and can be banned.
Jack Blumenthal, Denver
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