Muskets and semi-automatics

In 1791 when the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights was ratified, muskets were the weapon of choice. Fired one round and took more than a minute to reload for another round.

It is unlikely that any contemporary group of politicians could have put together a document as did the founders of our country.

But even those great men could not have foreseen the technological changes that advanced much faster than society’s ability to control them.

Unfortunately, with 300 million guns in this country, a number being semi-automatic with large magazines and cop-killing rounds, the horse has left the barn.

There are no good answers for a country founded on violence from the dueling fields of Weehawken and the Burr/Hamilton days to the Wild West heroes and modern day media depicting violence with video participation.

Cannot deny a limit on assault weaponry may save a life and is worth a try but there are no major solutions short of frontal lobotomies on all the population.

Gerard Freisinger

Warwick