Handle rights equally

Dear editor: I read the letter from Mount Ida’s Casey Alexander published this morning, March 15, 2018, and it started with that same old tired argument that when the Second Amendment was written, there were only muskets and cannons. This is the argument used to deny me my constitutional rights granted by the Second Amendment.

But let’s carry this argument to its logical conclusion by Alexander’s reasoning. At that same period of time, newspapers were limited in number and confined to a small local area of distribution. Type was hand set, ink was rolled on by hand and paper was printed one sheet at a time by a hand-squeezed press. That being the case, Alexander should hand write these letters using a quill and ink, and have it printed by the local Mount Ida newspaper. If they don’t have one, then turn it over to the local town crier. If it becomes necessary for this letter to reach Hot Springs, have it delivered either by stagecoach or horse and rider, the slandered method of delivery for the period.

I have no way of knowing if Casey Alexander is a man or woman, but in the event a woman, she had no right to vote in that time period and as such, has no say in the matter other than voicing an opinion locally.

I will fully expect Alexander to agree to handle his or her First Amendment rights to free speech in the same manner using the same parameters as Alexander wants to apply to my Second Amendment rights.

Robert Freeman Jr.

Bonnerdale