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Please review and critique this letter than I am firing off to all my elected reps both at the Federal and State level:
I am writing to ask that you stand firm in the face of the inevitable wave of assaults on the Second Amendment that are sure to come from the incredibly tragic crime committed at Virginia Polytechnic yesterday.
Already the hand wringing about guns, their availability, and their “power” has begun. My position on this is very simple. There are literally thousands of gun control laws in the books already. Not a single one of them stopped a violenty criminal from committing murder. Adding more laws is not the answer. Everywhere the availability of firearms for defense has been severely restricted the lawless prey on the law abiding with impunity. Regardless of the claims made by the Brady Center and their ilk, draconian gun control legislation has done nothing to alter the rates of violent crime both in Australia and the United Kingdom. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21902 http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi269t.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3914289.stm Those two nations are the utopian societies that socialists so admire and wish to turn us into. According to BBC reports, it is no difficult task for criminals in the UK to find firearms for their criminal endeavors. The classic definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome. The classic response to armed crime is to pass more gun control laws. Another sensational crime, another set of useless laws, and so it goes.
There is one legislative action I would like to see Congress take. Decriminalize the lawful possession of firearms for self defense in schools and other currently “gun free” locations. Not a single victim at Virginia Tech had the ability to fight back on equal terms if they had wanted to. The laws of Virginia, the laws of the United States, and the policies of the University of Virginia system left these people extremely vulnerable and defenseless. In the cases where quick availability to legally owned firearms for defense existed, rampages like yesterdays were stopped with a far fewer loss of life. I refer you to the Appalachian Law School http://www.uwire.com/content/topops012402002.html http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/topic-appalachianlawschool.html and the Pearl, Mississippi, High School http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Woodham incidents.
Respectfully
I am writing to ask that you stand firm in the face of the inevitable wave of assaults on the Second Amendment that are sure to come from the incredibly tragic crime committed at Virginia Polytechnic yesterday.
Already the hand wringing about guns, their availability, and their “power” has begun. My position on this is very simple. There are literally thousands of gun control laws in the books already. Not a single one of them stopped a violenty criminal from committing murder. Adding more laws is not the answer. Everywhere the availability of firearms for defense has been severely restricted the lawless prey on the law abiding with impunity. Regardless of the claims made by the Brady Center and their ilk, draconian gun control legislation has done nothing to alter the rates of violent crime both in Australia and the United Kingdom. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21902 http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi269t.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3914289.stm Those two nations are the utopian societies that socialists so admire and wish to turn us into. According to BBC reports, it is no difficult task for criminals in the UK to find firearms for their criminal endeavors. The classic definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome. The classic response to armed crime is to pass more gun control laws. Another sensational crime, another set of useless laws, and so it goes.
There is one legislative action I would like to see Congress take. Decriminalize the lawful possession of firearms for self defense in schools and other currently “gun free” locations. Not a single victim at Virginia Tech had the ability to fight back on equal terms if they had wanted to. The laws of Virginia, the laws of the United States, and the policies of the University of Virginia system left these people extremely vulnerable and defenseless. In the cases where quick availability to legally owned firearms for defense existed, rampages like yesterdays were stopped with a far fewer loss of life. I refer you to the Appalachian Law School http://www.uwire.com/content/topops012402002.html http://johnrlott.tripod.com/postsbyday/topic-appalachianlawschool.html and the Pearl, Mississippi, High School http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Woodham incidents.
Respectfully