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.
--
David J. Starr
Blog: http://www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
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