For President Obama, Sen. Pryor, Sen. Boozman, Congressmen Womack, Cotton, Griffin and Crawford: “Infringed” means intruded, invaded, overstepped, encroached on, intruded on, interfered with.

All of these are violated by gun registrations, magazine size, caliber or any other arms restrictions. “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

That is pretty simple.

Even a simpleton can understand that.

These violations are not allowed by anybody. Not by cities, counties, states, nor by the federal government.

The president can yack all he wants, but that doesn’t change a thing. The Second Amendment was written for our protection from him and all of the Washington, D.C., aristocracy.

Now that we have cleared that up, the president should get busy and focus on the public debt, deficit spending and the debt ceiling.

He ain’t got time to mess with things that don’t need fixin’.

AL LEMKE

Gentry

TERM LIMITS HELPED

Jason Tolbert wrote an

opinion (“Term Limits

Weaken Legislature”) on Jan. 18 I disagree with. His premise is wrong. If your premise is wrong, then the rest falls apart.

This young Legislature is a product of people being fed up with Washington. The vote for a change in Arkansas in 1992 was a vote against corruption, ineptitude, whatever, and it hasn’t done any harm to the state, but the Congress in Washington had the power to vote against term limits even though the majority of the people in our nation - Democrats, Republicans, Independents or any other stripe - voted in favor of it. But they had no vote. Now, isn’t it better to give the people a voice?

LYNN SORLIE

Bella Vista

Opinion, Pages 7 on 01/24/2013