Bill Maxwell’s Jan. 11 column “Guns disturb parks’ tranquil beauty” was missing a few things. First, in the United States, citizens have the right to own and bear arms. That right is given in the Second Amendment. States have to abide by it as well. That is in the 14th Amendment.

I understand freedom of press (First Amendment), but please keep in mind that your paper serves men and women who have sworn to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Second Amendment is quite clear in its wording. It says that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I don’t know what that means to people now but, to an educated person, that means that the right will not be restricted.

Second, the last time I checked, shooting someone in cold blood was illegal. If someone is going to shoot someone, he is going to do it even if it is a violation of the law.

To say that “[t]he lethal alien is the gun” is to say the cause for people being overweight is eating utensils. A gun will only fire when someone pulls the trigger. Guns don’t go around killing people. If there were not guns on the face of the Earth, people would still use something to kill one another.

The real eyesore is the column that showed up in a newspaper that should value the Constitution a little bit more than it does.