Love those Street Smart columns

I for one am happy to see some kind of balance in the Ledger Opinion pieces with the addition of the column “Street Smart” by Mr. Blaine Blackstone. It’s gratifying to see that someone has the courage to point out that Governor Bullock’s support of Second Amendment rights was disingenuous because he now supports banning assault weapons. Of course “assault weapons” to the anti-Second Amendment crowd means any semi-automatic rifle or any weapon that holds more than ten rounds. They call these “weapons of war.”

The only addition to his article is that I would have mentioned that nearly six years ago Jon Tester voted for Obama’s assault weapons ban, which if not for the courage of Democrat Max Baucus would have passed the senate and been law. Of course who can remember back six years.

In full disclosure, I am a lifetime member of the NRA, which would get me shunned in Portland or New York, but hopefully never in Montana.

Robert Cheshire

Noxon, Montana