Letter: Gutting the Second Amendment will leave the citizenry defenseless against tyranny

On this date in 1775, agents of the king of England sent troops against his own subjects in Concord, Mass. The goal: Seize the colonial militia’s weapons and head off the insurrection that would become the American Revolution. In the following year, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, which puts forth the conditions in which a people should “throw off” tyrannical government. He said people have not only the right, but the duty to do so.Now our country is em