I draw your attention to two documents.  

The U. S. Constitution states that “We*” created the constitution for purposes; the third purpose is to “insure domestic tranquility*.”  If we fear to go to public places, where is the assured domestic tranquility?

The Declaration of Independence states that we have “unalienable rights**” and among these are “Life**” and “the pursuit of Happiness.**”  What is more important?  The right to live that has been taken from many; the right to pursue happiness that has been diminished for many others; or the right of one crazed fanatic to have guns to take the rights of life and the pursuit of happiness from many others?

Let the crazed ones have knives, but for the sake of the lives and happiness and domestic tranquility of the rest of us, don’t let them have automatic weapons.

*We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,* insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.--United States Constitution

**We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed--The Declaration of Independence

The above is a letter to the editor that I sent to the New York Times in reply to an article by David Brooks about gun control subsequent to the Aurora, CO, shootings.  The letter was evidently not chosen to be published, so I am publishing it on my blog.  It is time to eliminate automatic weapons as an available option for people to buy.