WALL: Emergency could backfire

If it’s OK for President Trump to declare a national emergency to build a border wall, then why will it not be OK for the next Democratic president to declare an emergency to outlaw handguns? It can be argued that hand guns kill as many Americans as do illegal immigrants.

Trump’s “go-around” of the constitutional requirement that only Congress can appropriate government funding could easily be likened to a “go-around” of the second Amendment. Should we be worried where this wall-building emergency takes our nation?

BILL APPLETON

Coeur d’Alene