Letters: Guns evolve, just like everything else

I hope Philip Wolfe wrote his letter to the editor on parchment with a quill pen (“Today’s guns were not anticipated,” July 15); after all, when the First Amendment was written, the Founding Fathers had no concept of the electronic transmission of free speech. As he noted, in the first 200 years of our nation’s history, no one questioned the meaning of the Second Amendment. They had not forgotten.

Our nation’s freedom fighters had the latest in weapons technology. Some of the finest rifles in the world were made in America. This is how we were able to defeat the world’s most powerful army, which was using a mixture of outdated weaponry. I urge Mr. Wolfe to look around the world today. Doesn’t he think he should get himself a long gun and a handgun, train with them and become well regulated? Or is he just going to depend on others to defend his liberty and freedom?