Regarding a recent letter (“Second Amendment keeps us free”), the most important Amendment to the US Constitution is the First Amendment – free speech. That is the first thing that tyrants try to take away.

Look at Eastern Europe after WWII and the takeover by Stalinist totalitarianism. Look at what Putin is doing in Russia. And, look at all the other countries that are controlled by totalitarian leaders.

It really doesn’t matter if one has guns. Except for some “resistance,” they are useless against the right of free speech and the policing that deny’s people of their rights to be free and individual people.

Barbara Wade, Bellevue