If you read today's letters to the editor there is a letter full of anti-gun propaganda.  I have written a letter to the editor that will hopefully counter the misinformation presented and if it gets published it will be one step towards promoting the second amendment.  The first amendment means little if you don't make your voice heard so I would urge all of you to write to the newspaper.

no emojis this time, I'm actually serious for once (or twice)

Any way to see that without giving them my money?

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/07/13/editorial/letters/letters-covid-19-cases-mostly-flat-after-blm-protests/

3rd from the top

Police confronted with heavily armed public

Chuck Jonas gets most of it right (“The root of the problem with the police: a warrior mentality,” Star- Advertiser, Island Voices, July 2).

Of particular note is his reference to the 2015 Harvard Law Review study, and the serious threat to our collective community safety. What Jonas does not mention is the root cause of the warrior mentality.

He said 9/11 somehow was the cause, and demeans police training. The fact is, military weapons became available in the late 1980s and early 1990s because politicians passed laws allowing large magazines, high-velocity bullets and semi-automatic (easily converted to automatic) assault weapons that were designed for infantry soldiers to be sold commercially.

Jonas should walk into a gun store and look at the array of weaponry police can encounter daily. In New Zealand it took only one mass-killing spree for it to ban military weapons.

Andrew Bates

Kaneohe

A real special kind of special

Very special.....

Someone should tell Bates gun crime has dramatically increaed in NZ since the ban

In fact, military type firearms have been available for over a century.

The gun technology got better.
People have not.

In fact, military type firearms have been available for over a century.

The gun technology got better.
People have not.

Or...... forever

Rather than argue the minutiae of stats I simply advised the writer to go into a gun store and witness the empty shelves and lines of new/prospective gun owners.

Neither approach would probably change his mind but he's not the one I'm after--it's all of the other people who are feeling vulnerable.  I want them to know/feel/understand it's OK to buy a gun.

Rather than argue the minutiae of stats I simply advised the writer to go into a gun store and witness the empty shelves and lines of new/prospective gun owners.

Neither approach would probably change his mind but he's not the one I'm after--it's all of the other people who are feeling vulnerable.  I want them to know/feel/understand it's OK to buy a gun.

Sadly, most prospective gun owners in Hawaii will not be able to due to the current appointment based system. So either they will be completely discouraged and quit or do something else......