Dictator and defender of rights?

At this point in time a few months before the presidential election, I’m kinda sitting up here on my “high horse” getting a rather wry kick out of the various pro-Trump and strongly, vehemently anti-Trump letters to the editor and some of the tings taking place in the United States political world.

My primary point for this letter is to quote and examine a couple lines from a letter in the Sept. 14 opinion page. “I watch as he alienates our long-term allies while embracing the worst of dictatorships in the world,” and “Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator while enriching himself through the presidency.” This is very similar to the views of many on the left.

Ok, now for my point. If indeed Trump is such a dangerous, mentally deranged “wannabe dictator” how is it that most of those who express such fear of him are, for the most part, strongly anti-gun? Trump seems to be trying to defend gun rights. These “anti-Trumpers” should be stocking up with guns and many rounds of ammunition in case wildman Trump decides to change his mind and confiscate his “subjects” guns. That’s one of the first things dictators do! Could it be that there is more than a mite of hypocrisy and shooting themselves in the foot going on, on the part of the gun-haters? (If so, I guess they’d have to do so with an old, low-power BB Daisy air rifle.)

Ken Campbell

Deer Park