LAWS CAN CHANGE

Many Americans see our country’s Constitution as something carved on granite tablets and that cannot be changed. Many have never experienced a civics class or, if they have, forgotten its contents.

The Constitution provides for its own revision in Article V; without it, the Founding Fathers likely would not have ratified the Constitution because they considered it flawed. For them, Article V was a doorway for change as needed.

The Second Amendment has become so politicized that it has made sensible gun laws nearly impossible.

Canada, which shares a 3,000-mile border with the United States, has nothing in its constitution comparable to our Second Amendment. It has established strict gun laws, including thorough background checks, that most of its citizens view as fair and sensible. As a result, Canada does not experience the constant bloody mayhem of innocent people being murdered.

– Serg J. Rioux,

Coral Gables