The GOP members who voted for Connecticut’s gun law are certainly not traitors to the people they represent. The law does not stop people from owning guns. The Second Amendment is in tact. Background checks do not prevent owning a gun, it lessens the chance that an irresponsible individual will be able to get one. Anything that reduces the risk of gun violence, however small, is a step in the right direction. Any “platform” that prevents an individual from doing the right thing is changed conditions is flawed. We must have the freedom to make just decisions when they are called for. The well thought-out gun law is such a case.
Philip B. Arnold, M.D.
Woodbridge