I have to laugh at Michael Barr’s Feb. 22 letter in reference to my letter and others because, like Jared Oh, he is also in desperate need of a civics lesson.

Where Oh missed the point on the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, Mr. Barr misses the point on the defining moment in America’s history. He states, “You would have thought Oh called for overturning a tyrannical government through armed insurrection to get this reaction…which is ironically what all these staunch Second Amendment supporters wrongly believe they have a right to do.”

I say Mr. Barr needs to take the time to read the Declaration of Independence; that is exactly what our Founding Fathers realized they had the right to do and in the end needed to do through petition then arms.

Here’s everyone’s civic lesson for the day: The Constitution is a document directed at the government itself. It is a set of rules the government must follow. If the Constitution doesn’t allow the government to do it, or if the Constitution limits the government in some form or manner, then the government cannot do something. The basic concept behind the Constitution is that any and all rights rest with the people.

Everybody should take the time to read it and maybe, just maybe, they’ll begin to understand why some people are so vehemently concerned about the over-burdening reaches of our government into our personal lives.

Doug Barovsky, Sammamish