First, read actual text

I wish that people would at least read the Second Amendment before they started preaching. It’s only one sentence; it wouldn’t take long. And start at the first part of the sentence, not the last, and study upon the primary part awhile. Don’t just rush ahead like a child hungry for dessert and chow down on the delicious part: muskets, sawed-off shotguns, .50-cal machine guns, hand grenades and other such. That part, when pushed to the front of the sentence, obfuscates all the other relevant points of view.

The Second Amendment is about the best way to guarantee the security of the state. Recent events definitely prove this is still a relevant issue. Who can forget the sight of your elected representatives running, being driven off the floor of the Senate and House? So much for republican government versus mob violence. So much for “a well regulated militia” solution: It didn’t work in this our post-Pearl Harbor pre-emptive-strike era. Maybe we need to find a new champion for legislative protection from political mobs.

So, Arkansas now moves to join the self-labeled patriots who want to block the federal government from restricting sawed-off shotguns and machine guns from the hands of mobs. Why don’t our Arkansas representatives read the Second Amendment (part I) first and study upon a mob coming to drive them out if they don’t follow Trump’s lead? It’s not that far-fetched; it is not that hard to imagine; just rerun the mountain of clips of fools with flags and bear spray attacking your national government. “It will be wild!”

Of course the solution for some will always be … more guns.

DANNY HANCOCK Lonoke