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Freedom is messy but better than alternatives

| June 23, 2022 1:00 AM

I want to add some balance to the views of Jim Jones who recently said the NRA has gone "berserk." The Democrat Party has said for years that it wishes to abolish the Second Amendment.

Should we exchange our guns for free healthcare? Let’s look 49 miles to the north to see what happens next. Black-clad mercenaries dressed in riot gear will beat you out of your truck if you dare protest "emergency health measures." Then the government freezes your bank accounts and locks you out of society if you continue to speak. The unvaccinated still can’t get on an airplane in Canada. Australian citizens recently emerged from almost two years of house arrest. A Sydney man was brutally arrested for the crime of sneezing in an elevator whilst COVID positive and … alone. There is compulsory national vaccination. Climb the fence at a quarantine center (for those carrying a virus that is 99.985% survivable) and you will be arrested. This doesn’t happen in America because of the Second Amendment.

"Shall not be infringed."

Freedom is messy but, it is better than the alternative, The horrendous violence we see in our country is the result of a sick society. Take the guns away and the sick society is still there; we just won’t be able to defend ourselves. Get rid of the Second Amendment and history says future mass killings are done by the State.

Jim, that’s why the NRA 'goes berserk' in defending this God-given right.

DEAN CANNON

Sandpoint