Letter: We can protect people and the Second Amendment

In response to Alexandra Petri’s Sept. 6 column, “The things we must give up,” she paints a grim picture of living a life in heavy armor in order to stay safe in case of a mass shooting.She ends the article with the suggestion of a much smaller sacrifice, which can only be interpreted as tweaking and tightening the interpretation of the Second Amendment.Here’s the entire Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, th