I say get rid of all sandwich board signs unless they’re worn by a person in a fuzzy animal suit.

However, I have yet to hear that the “Eden like Vashon” (“Gun sales on Vashon a scary, bad idea for all,” Jan. 13) has been designated a gun-free zone, exempting it from the Second Amendment. So, let’s all read from our pocket Constitutions:

“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.”

Nothing about target shooting, or hunting, or even personal protection is mentioned. The right of the people to “keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Huh?

The founding fathers purposely made this the second most important amendment so the citizens could fight a tyrannical government. You know, like the one they had just fought.

I live in the safest place in King County: Vashon. I own guns. I enjoy target shooting. I don’t hunt, but use some guns for personal protection.

I talked to Brad Shride about his community gun shop and his sandwich board sign that was stolen. Brad seems like a good guy, so I’m buying another firearm from him because:

1. It’s my Constitutional right.

2. I want to help Brad’s Vashon business.

3. I want people who fear that “guns and those who sell them are profoundly scary and dangerous” and believe that “no one should make a living from spreading instruments of death and destruction” (“Gun sales on Vashon a scary, bad idea for all,”) to enjoy the freedom to exercise their First Amendment right and live with their irrational fear of me and hundreds of thousands just like me. I also want them to enjoy their First Amendment right to offend us in The Beachcomber (you know…that pesky freedom of press thing).

While self-righteousness and hypocrisy are also rights, stealing and/or vandalizing someone else’s property isn’t.

— Brian Dougher