My Turn: The Second Amendment protects our security and liberty 

In Rich Moniak’s piece “The Second Amendment has limits” published on Feb. 20, Mr. Moniak refers the shootings in Connecticut and to ‘military style assault guns’ that he states Congress should ban because ‘they’re not hunting weapons” and “the vast majority of Americans don’t think they’re needed for self defense.”

Mr. Moniak does not cite his sources for those statements, but the vast majority of Americans were at one time in favor of slavery.