To the editor: Whereas Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a twenty eighth Modification is an admirable effort to confront the gun violence epidemic, a greater proposal can be to repeal and exchange the 2nd Modification by Congress and the states.
By changing the convoluted language of the 2nd Modification with a listing of particular guidelines for gun possession, gun violence could be diminished.
The nation wants a nationwide response as a result of state legal guidelines usually battle with one another. As an illustration, California bans assault rifles, however a shooter can buy one in one other state.
The previous saying that an oz. of prevention is value a pound of remedy falls on deaf ears in lots of states. Gun violence prices 1000’s of lives and accidents, in addition to billions of {dollars} in medical payments, police investigations, misplaced work productiveness and different associated issues — to not point out the emotional toll on households.
Bob Ladendorf, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I don’t oppose Newsom’s name for a constitutional modification on gun management like Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s regulation faculty, does. He thinks the governor’s plan is “horrible.”
However I feel the time and vitality it will take to ratify a twenty eighth Modification might be put to raised use.
As a substitute of taking a long time to safe approval of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states, I consider a gun summit at Camp David — with gun-rights advocates, regulation enforcement and survivors — may hammer out new, commonsense gun security measures in a matter of days.
Inconceivable, you say? Isn’t that what critics of President Carter mentioned when he introduced previous warriors Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Start of Israel collectively at Camp David in 1978?
I applaud Newsom for pondering outdoors the field. However talking virtually, I urge President Biden to convene a gun summit at Camp David as rapidly as doable.
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: Fairly than tackle the daunting ask of amending the Structure, Newsom ought to take an method that may be fully in line with the 2nd Modification’s wording.
The 2nd Modification begins with “a well-regulated militia” — not only a militia, however a a well-regulated one. An trustworthy interpretation can be that so long as restrictions don’t impede the formation of a regulated state militia, they might be deemed permissible.
My suggestion to Newsom: Enable widespread possession of firearms, however all such arms (some sorts of small arms is likely to be exempted) can be held by the California Nationwide Guard and might be accessed and used solely by the Guard.
David Perel, Los Angeles
