Guns needed for protection
I was not really surprised Sunday when I read an editorial that closed with the following statement: “Putting armed guards in schools is not the way to avert school shootings. Real solutions are greater mental-health monitoring that would identify unstable individuals before they hurt others and, above all, sensible legislation that would stop them from getting their hands on armaments that belong on the battlefield, not on our homes, streets or schools.”
Yet, to the person who wrote this opinion, I say the following: We protect the president, governors, congressmen and senators, celebrities, sporting events, jewelry stores, banks full of phony paper money, and courts with what? With guns. What does your opinion writer want to protect children with? Rights don’t change due to technology, and I trust the writers of the Bill of Rights and the Pennsylvania Constitution more than some newspaper writer.
May I quote for you Section 21 of the PA Constitution: “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.”
Joe Furjanic
Charleroi