Fear-mongering on guns

Faye Palmer’s letter (“Clinton will confiscate firearms,” May 29) continues to show the fear-mongering used by the far right to defend the gun industry.

During Obama’s 2008 campaign, they screamed “He’ll take our guns!” Funny, that didn’t happen, but that won’t prevent people from continuing the delusion. There’s nothing he or Clinton have said that could vaguely imply that charge has validity, but she’ll type it regardless.

The old lie about Jews and Hitler is nonsense, too. No, the Holocaust would have happened anyway. They were a minority and very few had guns even before the Nazi party outlawed Jewish ownership of guns.

Finally, the inability of these folks to type the entire Second Amendment, furthermore discuss the rest of the Constitution, where the word “militia” appears in multiple places, continues a willful blindness that prevents reasonable gun laws. When 84 percent of gun owners and 70 percent of NRA members support universal background checks, people such as Palmer clearly don’t reflect the vast majority of gun owners.

David Teich

Spokane Valley