Bill O’Reilly’s column regarding the four Supreme Court justices who voted against the Second Amendment right to bear arms is clear and logical. However, I don’t believe he goes far enough (“Why We Have Gun Rights,” PostOpinion, July 2).
The right to bear arms precedes the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers did not “allow the new American citizens the right to bear arms,” they protected a right that was always there.
The four justices who voted against the Second Amendment — John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — swore on oath to uphold the Constitution.
They chose, instead, to follow their own progressive agenda and make law. In short, they lied.
Robert Joyce
College Point
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O’Reilly argues that the recent Supreme Court ruling on handgun ownership was made in protection of the Constitution and for the protection of the people. What he fails to recognize are the dangers of keeping firearms in the home for the purpose of self-defense.
Guns in homes kill thousands of kids every year. Up to half of all youth gun deaths, or more than 1,500 per year, occur from guns in the home.
Regardless of how anyone feels about the right to bear arms, we must be concerned about the repercussions of this decision.
Guns that are accessible to kids are dangerous. To ignore that is to undermine our safety.
Daniel Gross
Founder, PAX
Manhattan
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O’Reilly makes a compelling argument for why we have gun rights in America.
At the end of his column, O’Reilly admonishes Americans to “be very afraid.” My issue with his conclusion is regarding just exactly whom we should be afraid of.
We should be wary of the senators who will confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. She can’t don those robes unless the Senate gives her permission to do so.
Be very afraid? Yes. But be afraid of our elected senators.
Tom Cahill
Manhattan