Letters to the Editor: Sept. 2, 2011

Americans were once required to buy guns Re: “Justice Thomas: Nightmare for Obamacare,” Aug. 31

Reading Michael Barone’s column, I couldn’t help but feel at least a small bit of irony in his conclusion. Barone talks about the history of firearms control, yet at the end he contends that “Congress has never before passed and the Supreme Court has never upheld a law requiring individuals to buy a commercial product, as Obamacare does.”