I found the comments by Jim Kress ("Bearing arms a natural right," March 14) quite puzzling. How can he compare our country to the dictatorships of Josef Stalin and Pol Pot?
Perhaps a refresher course in our system of government with its three separate branches would be in order: The executive, legislative and judicial branches were designed to protect individual freedoms and prevent the government from abusing its power. Does anyone really think our government is going to attack its own citizens, which would then require them to "rebel" against it?
This fear-mongering by these misguided gun activists has got to stop.
Paul Gorman
Saratoga Springs