by XDM45 on Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:37 pm
Here's a shortened version of a letter I posted about previous on this forum in another thread.... This edited version is the one I use with the form link this thread is about. Use it or modify it as you see fit.
We're all appalled by the recent shootings at Aurora, Sandy Hook and other places; but this is the work of madmen; and we need to focus on better background checks and address the mental health issues in this country.
James Holmes was well-known to have mental issues, yet he was not put into proper medical care by those doctors and psychiatrists who knew of his diagnosed issues.
Nathan Gale, a shooter in a nightclub on December 8th, 2004, who killed the guitarist of a Damageplan was booted from the US Marines for mental issues as well.
Coincidentally, in 1980 on that same date, John Lennon was also murdered by someone with mental issues as well.
The shooter at Sandy Brook was known to have issues and stole his mother's legally-owned guns, and there are many more cases as well involving mentally stable people with insane actions taking lives of innocent people.
Lest we forget, Timothy McVeigh used a rental truck, fertilizer, and he killed 19 children. You can still buy the fertilizer without control and rent a truck. Guns are merely a tool, and any material thing can be used to kill. It's the person that is the problem, not the tool. Unlike the media, I don't want to focus on the tool of the gun; I want to focus on our rights.
Regardless of where you are on guns and our gun rights (which are guaranteed in the 2nd amendment of the Constitution), there are possible changes coming which could affect that amendment and make it powerless. If that can happen to the 2nd, it can happen to the 1st, 4th, 5th, and every other amendment in the Constitution until that document is as powerless as the next square of toilet paper. It's time to draw a line in the sand and make a stand against further decimation of our rights, our freedoms, our constitution and our country.
We do not need any more gun laws, gun registration, gun control, high-capacity magazine bans, “assault weapon” bans, or further legislation which further limits the freedom of law-abiding, taxpaying, voters like myself.
YOUR actions and vote WILL affect my vote. If you vote against guns, I will vote against YOU.
We need our current gun laws enforced.
We need the broken NICS background check system improved upon.
We need to address the mental health issues in this country.
We do not need any more gun laws.
Gnothi Seauton