LEGISLATORS: Shooting at the wrong targets

The excellent column by Evan Koch gave this old Republican cause to feel a boat load of shame about what’s going on in Boise orchestrated by radical Republicans in the Legislature.

Regarding HR 415, District 4 Sen. Ben Toews said in an email, “It has my full support; it will make our schools safer, and the alternative is an affront to liberty. … While sheltering might make sense for those unequipped to fight, it is profoundly disconcerting, and contrary to our Second Amendment tradition, when we prohibit those teachers who are able and willing to defend their school from doing so.”

The Second 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.” Contrary to Sen. Toews’ opinion, school bus drivers, teachers and social service workers are not “a well-regulated Militia.”

Call me a RINO, I guess, but it is downright disturbing how infatuated our elected Republicans are with social engineering. We have much more important issues in this state to confront than gun rights and stripping citizens of their God-given rights.

REID HARLOCKER

Coeur d’Alene