Rights eroding

It is truly sad to see this puppet president pandering to the anti-freedom crowd, with fake tears no less, talking about how the government must do more to control guns in an armed population.

When a leader of a country, any country, states that the government doesn’t want to “take your guns away,” it is most assured that is the very thing the government wants (needs) to do.

Generations of Americans have failed to hold our elected officials to the confines of the U.S. Constitution. We have failed to control the people we have chosen to run government, and because of this, we have seen the slow, steady expansion of government under both Democrats and Republicans.

As our elected officials have continued to initiate programs prohibited by the Constitution, they have become less afraid of the people they were elected to govern.

We have allowed our elected officials to nullify eight of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. Is it any wonder the government isn’t afraid to nullify the Second?

Daniel Day

Spokane