LETTER: 2nd Amendment goes beyond home

Pro-choice advocates once argued that a womans decision to undergo a medical procedure should be a private-health matter between her and her doctor. But health concerns arent only about physical health.

Emotional, mental, and psychological states are also health issues when inconvenience, and/or anxiety (including anxiety over the sex of her unborn child) are considerations in her decision to have an abortion.

And the issue, originally framed as a womans right to have a life-saving procedure, has become a constitutional right to have an abortion for any health-related rationale.

If five Justices with advanced law degrees can find abortion-rights hidden within the Constitution, then gun-rights is apparent to anyone with a pulse.

When we come to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, we clearly see 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.

This is explicit language that states what the federal government shall not do in respect to a specific right of the people.

But the Left opposes applying this Right to the people.

Theyre the same people who were thrilled to have discovered within the implied langauge a womans right to abortion on demand, even though the Tenth Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Supreme Court has no power to infringe the states power to regulate abortion.

Since Illinois anit-gun-rights legislators choose to ignore the explicit language of the Constitution when crafting Illinois gun laws, the Supreme Court should rule and deem gun rights a private-security matter between law-abiding citizens and criminals.

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LETTER: 2nd Amendment goes beyond home