Challenge to Dupuy's Call for Gun Control

Ms. Dupuy,

Your analysis of the connection between the untimely death of Trayvon Martin and lax gun control measures was not persuasive.

The circumstances of the youth gunned down in Florida have nothing to do with lax or strict laws regarding ownership of possession in the public square.

Granted, the second amendment of the Constitution recognizes that the right to keep and bear arms is connected with militia, yet the militia is composed of private individuals possessing the power and responsibility to defend themselves, their homes, and their state and country.

The right has been construed as an individual right as recently as 2008. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 struck down the handgun ban for individual owners.

Recent morality rates for the federal district following the ruling against the gun ban may not indicate much beyond the reaction to higher crime rates altogether in D.C.

Still, this country should not institute sweeping changes in social policy over one death in Florida. The four witnesses interviewed for the case have already changed their stories. The alleged assailant George Zimmerman was clearly wounded in the altercation shortly before Trayvon's death. Moreover, there were traces of marijuana in the child's system. The facts of this case have become more convoluted since Zimmerman's arrest. Therefore, the media has no reason for indicting "lax" gun-control laws as the primary culprit.