Jan. 9, 2026 8 AM PT
To the editor: Visitor contributor Adam Winkler’s op-ed concerning the influence of the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals’ determination to permit open carry of firearms in California demonstrates as soon as once more the folly of “originalism” and the necessity to repeal and substitute the 2nd Modification (“The Supreme Court made a mess out of gun laws,” Jan. 8).
The patchwork of contradictory gun legal guidelines in states throughout the nation endangers all of us. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of gun death on the earth, and the prices in hospital payments for the injured, regulation enforcement and court docket instances add as much as billions of dollars a year. It’s time to cease the hand-wringing, “ideas and prayers” and taking pictures websites suffering from candles and flowers and finish the obscene reverence for the 2nd Modification.
Bob Ladendorf, Los Angeles
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To the editor: If we’re going to argue that rules are invalid as a result of they didn’t exist within the period of the musket, we should apply that very same logic to the weapons themselves. You can not declare an 18th-century proper for a Twenty first-century killing machine. It leaves us to marvel: If the definition of a “firearm” retains increasing whereas the rules stay frozen prior to now, the place does the insanity finish?
John Arcos, Lengthy Seashore
