Showing posts with label background checks. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Rustling amid the Grass Roots

This morning I sent the following e-mail to both my Senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte.

Dear Senator,  

   Please vote against any “assault weapons” law.  There are no objective differences between deer rifles and “assault rifles”.  An “assault weapons ban” in real life is an attempt to ban everything that shoots. 

   Please vote against making the current background checks more onerous.  Background checks are a way for bureaucrats to deny citizens the right to purchase firearms.  Background checks are a way for creating a government list of guns and gun owners.  Such a list can be used to confiscate citizen’s guns or target them for harassment. 

   America remains one of the last countries of freedom and liberty on Earth.  We prize that and want to keep it that way.  Since colonial times armed citizens have defended the land against Indian raiders, Caribbean pirates, and Redcoats, to name a few.  As late as 1940, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said “To invade the United States is impossible.  There would be a rifleman behind every blade of grass.”

   Armed citizens stop a great amount of crime.  Criminals know that citizens will shoot to kill in self defense.  They also know that many citizens have arms.  A large number of would be criminals are unwilling to risk their lives for small gains.

  The massacre in Connecticut was horrible.  It was committed by a homicidal maniac.  Depriving honest citizens of access to firearms won’t stop homicidal maniacs in the future; in fact it will encourage them.

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David J. Starr