A letter regarding the offense of treason and the Second Amendment demonstrated a woeful ignorance of the subjects.

Initially, the author erroneously claimed the House of Representatives has been sitting on recovery bill after recovery bill for the purpose of inserting what the author claims was leftist socialist provisions.

In fact, the Senate has submitted no bills to the House with respect to recovering from our current financial and health crisis which the House has refused to act upon. To the contrary, the House has passed something in the neighborhood of 400 bills since the Democrats resoundingly won control in 2018 that are sitting on Moscow Mitchs desk with no action.

The Senate, instead, has decided to take a break and not deal with pressing issues. Its main function has been to approve an astounding number of unqualified, ultra-conservative judges.

Next, the author claims this is treason. The United States Supreme Court has defined treason to require the country to be at war for the offense to occur.

Then the writer claims the Second Amendment authorizes citizens to apprehend and arrest toxic domestic enemies. The amendment states: A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. Nothing in that language remotely suggests what the author claims.

We have all seen what happened recently in Georgia when three criminals chased down an unarmed jogger and murdered him while bearing arms. They now face first-degree murder charges.

Richard L. Rost

Makawao

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