1] “A boy identified only as Victor laid on top of 10-year-old Weston Halsne during the Annunciation shooting. Victor was shot protecting his friend.
“That also means Victor has done more to protect a child during a school shooting than all the members of Congress elected in the last 30 years.” [ Jeremy powers; Minnesota Star Tribune “letter”; 8/29/25]

2] “It’s not about the ideology.
“It’s not about mental health.
“It’s not about video games.
“It’s not about social media.
“It’s not about the pronouns.
“It’s not about left or right.
“It’s not about freedom.
“It’s about the leading cause of death amoung children and adolescents in this country.
“It’s about the mass destruction that can be caused by anyone, anywhere, anytime for any reason at all.
“It’s about guns.” [John Neerland; Minnesota Star Tribune “letter”; 8/29/25]

3]. “New Zealand did something…Less than a month after the attack, Parliament voted 119-1 to introduce a nationwide ban on semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles.”…………….

“The U.K. did something….By the next year, Parliament had banned private ownership of most handguns and semi-automatic weapons, and required mandatory registration for shotgun owners. the U.K.hasn’t had a school shooting since.

“Norway did something…While Norway already had strict gun laws, they passed a ban on semi-automatic weapons in 2018, which went into effect in 2021.” [Maggie Kelly: “America grieves again and again. Other countries act.”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/29/25]

4] Amendment II: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Read ALL of the discussion among Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment – most importantly, WHY, they passed it.

5] James Madison’s original Second Amendment proposal contained this: an exemption from military service for those religiously scrupulous about bearing arms. It was left out of the shortened words adopted.
OBVIOUSLY – the Second Amendment was. INTENDED. to be about a GOVERNMENT military force – in 1787-91 – made up of private citizens. America now has this. It’s known as THE. NATIONAL. GUARD.

6] Get a professional English teacher to explain the rules of grammar on interpreting a sentence. the TRUE MEANING of a sentence takes into account ALL words in it. Amendment II has three sections: “A well regulated Militia.” “…the security of a free State”. ‘the right of people to keep and bear Arms.”
Obviously – people have Arms, in order to join a Militia, to protect the security of a free State. Obviously – if the “people’ aren’t in a Militia – they don’t need Arms. Which is what other, more rational and civilized nations have done

7]. CORRUPTION of the Second Amendment – was done by the CORRUPT Roberts ‘court” in 2008. they magically discovered a “meaning” that had eluded previous state and federal courts for over 200 years in numerous rulings, including multiple Supreme Court rulings.

8]. is America a “civilized’ nation. – IF – somebody, for reasons all his own – can obtain a MILITARY weapon – and then proceed to shoot up a school, a church, a store, a night club, etc. AND – our reaction is only to pray, make speeches, grieve by ourselves…. – BUT. REFUSE. to do THE. ONE THING THAT WILL STOP THS CARNAGE. – ban the weapons that do the killing and maiming????? We are not “free” – our children live in fear of being shot at school, are forced to do “live shooter drills.” We live in far for ONE REASON – some crazed person will kill us, with a gun.

It is time to elect people who WILL pass strict gun laws – like New Zealand, UK, Norway have done. PERIOD.