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Gun ordeal in D.C.

Sat., Feb. 14, 2015

Chris Norden (Jan. 22) claims that the National Rifle Association makes it “easy as pie” to get guns.

In her book, “Emily Gets Her Gun … But Obama Wants To Take Yours,” Emily Miller, senior editor of the Washington Times, relates her expensive, nightmarish, 4-month-long ordeal to purchase a handgun in Washington, D.C. Achieving sainthood might have been easier to Miller.

Repressive England, Australia and Canada are “safer” because they don’t have America’s drug and gang violence, not because of their tyrannical gun laws.

Miller says that the Second Amendment is a pillar of our democracy, an irrefutable fact that’s lost on Spokane’s anti-gun fanatics and the stupid voters who passed Initiative 594.

Curtis Stone

Dayton

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