Sep 22, 2015 2 min read

In your Aug. 26 editorial, “Too many packing heat,” you used your First Amendment rights to tell others not to use their Second Amendment rights. That is a sure sign of a hypocrite.

The first mass shooting occurred in 1949. The next one wasn’t until 1966. Things have gotten worse since. Guns were easily accessible decades ago. What has changed? The U.S. Supreme Court changed the nation on June 25, 1962 when it ruled that school-sponsored prayers were unconstitutional. They separated Christian principles from education. They got it wrong. This was not the intent of Thomas Jefferson. Just study some history and you would discover this.

The late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist said, “The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proven useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”

We are reaping what the court has sown. Theodore Roosevelt said “to educate a person in the mind but not morals is to educate a menace to society.” And John Adams said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. …Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”

Dave Vukmanic

Spraggs