'Seventeen outstanding new reasons ... to question the Second Amendment'

Thank you for the full page in last week`s Advertiser reminding us that citizenship means the responsibility to stand for Democracy and not just to enjoy it.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution was instituted on Dec. 15, 1791. It seems that automatic weapons of mass destruction had not yet been invented.
One grows tired of hearing that amendment being quoted as if it were holy writ, the iron bound, carved in stone words never to be altered by new facts or present conditions.
The Constitution of the United States of America is a document of genius, created to be amended, corrected, changed with the needs of the times and not written to promulgate the needs and values of outdated times or any one group regardless of the effects on others.
Currently, we have 17 outstanding new reasons to call that amendment as it stands into question, along with an organization which puts its so called rights ahead of human life.
I wish to honor and congratulate all the companies that have dropped or are dropping their affiliation to the NRA and to castigate those on-the-payroll politicians and gun sellers who are as responsible for the hundreds of deaths in this country of our children and all others as if they stood there and fired those automatic weapons themselves. Please think of yourselves as "Murder Incorporated." I do.
Elaine Knight
Warwick