Editor:
Denton May made a statement in his recent letter that I will cut and paste as a quote here: “The lawsuit claims that the new law violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, overlooking the fact that the Second Amendment is not an absolute right but is subject to reasonable restrictions as determined by federal and state governments.”
I am looking at the Second Amendment, and I think the language is perfectly clear – the words “shall not be infringed” have no addendum after them. Those words are at the end of the sentence and the end of the paragraph. End of thought. See the following: Amendment II - A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I am one of those people you don’t respect, Mr. May. I believe that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are as pertinent and applicable today as in the days they were written and ratified. The founding fathers spelled out the best set of rules that have ever been conceived. They didn’t intend on free will interpretation, they meant those laws to be read and understood as written. I applaud the sheriffs in this state who have taken a stand for the people whose Second Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights have been trampled on by a small group of Front Range liberals — ones who seem to be vying for some position in the current corrupt and socialistic big government.
Deborah McHenry
Cortez