In their book Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds (2012), Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac write (p. 195):

 “History may not repeat, Mark Twain is said to have remarked, but on occasion it rhymes.  There is indeed a repetitious assonance in the alarms voiced during the past two centuries about the perils of multicultural immigration.  Who are these newcomers flooding into North America, Europe, and Australia?  Don’t their true loyalties really lie with a foreign flag or faith?  Doesn’t that weaken the social cohesion vital to any democracy?  Aren’t foreigners robbing jobs from native-born workers and farmers?  Don’t they live in separatist enclaves, walling themselves apart from our common culture?  And why … do so many resist learning their host country’s ways and languages?  On the eve of the American Revolution, such questions were already being aired concerning German speakers from Middle Europe arriving with their strange religions and alien tongues…”

Now, in June 2016, Connecticut Viewpoints published my thoughts on how new Americans – and young voters – are joining the electorate and participating as citizens.

A version also appears via Medium.

Peace and comfort to the victims of the Orlando massacre, and their loved ones.

Action is needed to improve background checks and limit access to semiautomatic weapons, which far surpass anything needed under the 2^nd Amendment for self-protection, or for hunting.  “A well regulated Militia” is what the 2^nd Amendment and our society demand, for "the security of a free State" -- a state free from the tyranny of gun zealotry.

A Well-Regulated Militia is the title of Saul Cornell’s book on “the founding fathers and the origins of gun control in America.”

Here is my plea for reason.