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Letter: Guns: Americans living in the past and the present
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When the Constitution was written, people walked, drove horse and buggy or rode horses. The laws were meant for that period of time. As an example, you didn't need a driver's license or hunting license, or need to know the Rules of the Road, because there weren't many roads. Times were different then, and have been changing ever since. Our Constitution was never meant to remain the same! Article 2: The right to bear arms -- Muskets were used at that time. A musket is different from an assault rifle! FOX News touted that the government will take the Second Amendment away. How could that be done if it takes both Congress and Senate to vote on it? It's not the hunter's guns that people want outlawed. It is the mass killing guns that should be outlawed! I would like to see the Stand Your Ground Law, as well as concealed weapons laws struck down. There are far too many people with mental illnesses living among us. We need to have our hunting guns for wild game management, but we do not need the type of gun that can be used for mass murder, especially at our schools. We shouldn't have to choose between the right to bear arms or copycat killing! I was saddened when I read the letter, "Constitution brilliantly written." The brother has a one-sided view. We have a police department, National Guard, and the finest military in the world. When God comes back, Jesus is your only Savior! Charles Coughran, Atkinson 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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