“Guns,” Adrienne Rich wrote, “are language of the strong to the weak” — which is why the claim by gun-rights groups that gun rights are the first and most important freedom is flat-out wrong. Guns are a tool without conscience, often used by the powerful to re-enforce their power. And while the founders may have seen them as the great equalizing force, they were a force that will always be second to the right of conscience. That’s why the greatest dangers we face are always to our rights to speech, press, religion, assembly and petition.
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Hank Kalet 