FORMER REP. GIFFORDS

Mayor Boombag, B.O., and the other panic-in-the-streets crowd are quite correct; SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.

However, that something is not to contravene the Constitution of the U.S., which is ALL WE'VE GOT.

What needs to be done is to remove the homicidal maniacs from our midst. When a murderer has a nickname involving the word "crazy," as did the looney in Alabama, then he should already have been put away. Others, with a lifelong history of bizarre behavior should have been marked for specual observation and people in contact with them alerted and warned.

The Constitution does not guarantee the right of a maniac to roam among ordinary people, but, in no uncertain terms, it guarantees the right to bear arms - without strings attached. Any sane person knows that once government has attached a string to a concept, it will attach more in future. The Oxford English Dictionary is quite clear about the word "infringe."

Elected or appointed officials that seek to infringe our Constitutional rights should be impeached; they are VIOLATING THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE!