Letter: There are difficult things we all must accept. The effect of one vaguely-worded sentence about guns is not one of them.
FILE - A man carries his weapon during a Second Amendment gun rally at Utah State Capitol on Feb. 8, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
We all must, ultimately, accept some really difficult things.
I have accepted the loss of a million people due to misguided marketing and the subsequent erosion of trust in science. I have accepted my own death due to a blood cancer. Or maybe getting run over while riding my bicycle.
What I cannot accept is people’s belief that they have a fundamental right to a killing tool based on a vaguely-worded sentence written by men who couldn’t envision a flush toilet let alone a gun that could shoot more than two bullets per minute.
Martin Neunzert, Ogden
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