Mailbag: 2nd Amendment is still going strong

Robert Morrison. I’m assuming that you are an American who is proud to express his feelings toward a subject (“Prostitutes could be profitable for city,” Nov. 30).

As I can see, you are excising your freedom of speech with disclosing your displeasure. It amazes me that such a person who uses his freedom of speech neglects the fact that his right to express opinion is a direct result of a revolution by the use of firearms; yes Morrison, guns, not prostitutes, gave you the freedom to criticize your country.

The Glendale gun show, as much as any gun show around America, is testament to the strength of the 2nd Amendment, and a salute to the liberties that we hold dear as Americans.

Your claim is that gun owners show an “inordinate love affair” with their firearms, and this bothers you. The fact that a person has passion for his own possessions, and now, that is a freedom that you are attacking your fellow townsmen with, constitutes your lack of understanding on why gun owners are proud to be just that.

Vendors at gun shows are the same as vendors with a gun shop. A background check is mandatory, and so is proper identification. If you take away gun shows, you don’t help stop criminals from acquiring firearms, you just help limit the safety of law-abiding citizens, and put them in harm’s way.

The truth is that no one who doesn’t know a lot about guns will walk into a gun shop. Gun shows are public forums where the gun enthusiasts can explain and display to the curious citizen the fundamentals of gun ownership. The first thing taught and promoted at gun shows is safety — from booth to vendor, and gun owner to non-owner.

If you’re an advocate for safety, you should be promoting gun shows for their peace-promoting qualities.

PATRICK BAIRAMIAN

Glendale

Read the ads: Rents are dropping

In response to the Nov. 28 article titled “Rents rising in the city,” we want to know who concocts this irresponsible nonsense. Of course the writer’s source was the Quality of Life Indicators report — great, yet another piece of clap trap written by some overpaid, uninformed governmental agency for which we taxpayers are footing the bill.