Respect gun owners’ rights

I’ve never considered myself as a conservative. To the right, but sympathetic toward women’s and Second Amendment rights among others. As a collective family, my family, we don’t remember not having a firearm. It goes back to Germany before the World Wars. A way to provide for your family.

I haven’t harvested a deer in 20 years. I would think that I would like to again. The truth is that Safeway is closer. I’m comfortable with a firearm. It’s not an evil thing that lurks in a dresser drawer. It has its purpose among other things built by man. Hope you don’t need to use it, but it is there for you.

I think that anybody considered a threat by the federal government, determined by a board of inquiry, with a national database, overseen by Congress, should not be able to purchase or own a firearm due to a variety of reasons to be discussed.

The question of banning assault rifles. It’s a rifle that’s semi-automatic, not automatic. I don’t like the name. I like them. I own several. Let me get the point across. Please respect gun owners’ rights.

Mark Ward

Spokane