So why is it that our Second Amendment is not treated the same as the first? The majority party in California and their anti-civil rights allies views our natural right to self-defense to be limited to the musket and the flintlock.

Since I have been in office, the majority party has found cause to attack small guns, cheap guns, expensive guns, big guns, guns with too many accessories, guns by brand name, ugly guns and pretty guns.

We have a strange testing requirement to purchase a gun reminiscent of poll taxes and literacy tests that were designed to keep oppressed people from voting. We have limited the number of guns someone can purchase in a month. Can you imagine being told how many times you are allowed to attend church in a month?

On Tuesday morning at the Lee County Gun Range, a lifelong civilian and two retired officers tried to split business cards edgewise with bullets.

The shooter slotted a card into a cardboard target called a “retriever.” On a keypad in his shooting stall, he entered the distance to which the retriever would retreat. The activity was part skill exercise, part macho posturing.

Retired officer Jack Boris, the assistant commander of the range, sent his target 10 feet away and aimed his Glock handgun. He straddled the card with shots to its left and right, hit a spot beneath it, then finally split it with the ninth shot, shells rolling behind him.

Horatio Shonnard, a civilian resident of Fort Myers who shoots competitively, sent his target 60 feet back. He had to mark the card with a neon sticker so he could see it. After a few misses, he put a clean rip through the infinitesimal edge.

Shonnard’s firearm is an amalgam of different handgun parts—a Colt .45 frame, a Les Baer slide, a Kahr barrel and an Ed Brown beavertail. He considers himself a gunsmith.