The second amendment to the US Constitution contains one of the clearest statements you’ll ever read, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”  George’s right to bear arms has been infringed, and I’m not happy about it.  He was  onboard ship off the coast of Beirut when the Marine barracks was bombed.  He was trained very well in the use of firearms,  by the US Marine Corps.  He is also a corrections officer.  He carries a sidearm at work, and also carries a permit to identify his permission to do so.  Corrections officers are trained and retrained.

George has educated our two teenage sons in the safe and responsible use of firearms, and they’re both crack shots.  We live on a lake and in the summer I spend much time at the beach.  We shoot pellets from our deck, at targets between the house and the lake.   We have so many targets on the lawn, I’ve seen signs on my deck that say, “DON’T SHOOT MOM!”

Believe me, this man KNOWS what he’s doing.  Yet, to obtain permission to exercise what our founding fathers recognized to be a right, he had to bear the elementary instruction, expense and  inconvenience  of taking a course in the use of handguns.   This is infringement.  The fact that the government expects to KNOW who is carrying a firearm is infringement.  The fact that the government enters into it at all…IS  infringement.