At a time when people readily accept that money is speech and corporations are people, it isn't surprising they also are willing to overlook the distinction between weapons of war and guns for sport and hunting.
How unfortunate our society tolerates the wholesale corruption of the history, context and intent of the Second Amendment out of a lack of conviction to refute the distortions perpetuated by individuals who wish to play with assault weapons without joining a publicly controlled military organization.
Where is the political leadership, the media objectivity?
If not the random slaughter of 20 children and six adults, what will it take to give people the courage to say "you are mistaken if you think the Second Amendment grants a universal, unrestricted right to possess military weapons?"
What will it take to make someone stand up and say we must recall the 18th-century events that led to the Second Amendment and admit we have allowed its deliberate misinterpretation to drag us into a 21st-century nightmare?
Who is going to have the courage to say special interests are profiting handsomely from our tolerance of their revisionist portrayal of history?
When will elected officials have the courage to say the Second Amendment is a states' rights issue, not an individual rights issue, that it applies to weapons of war, not sport and hunting guns?
PAUL ADEL
Clifton Park