Put effort into regulating firearms

The majority of conservative Republicans seem to want stricter voter identification laws, but they oppose stricter gun laws designed to keep firearms from getting into the wrong hands. The Second Amendment does not give a person the right to use a firearm to stage an attack. I have no objection for a responsible, law-abiding citizen from owning a fire arm.

I favor prosecuting anyone who is not eligible to vote who does vote. The Constitution gives anyone who is at least 18 and a citizen of the United States, the right to vote. Among people who are at least 18 and are citizens of the United States, the states may deny the right to vote only to the ones convicted of a felony.

Thousands of innocent people have lost their lives or been injured because firearms are allowed to get into the wrong hands. When an ineligible voter casts a ballot, no one loses his or her life or is injured.

I hope conservative Republicans put forth as much effort to keep firearms out of the wrong hands as they are on voter identification laws.

Paul Adams

Stanwood