Dammit... The grabbers are already calling for legislation before the crime scene has even been fully canvassed:
http://app.e2ma.net/app2/campaigns/a...08084afad4033/
Here's a letter I wrote to them:
Dear Ladd Everitt,
In reference to your statement on today's tragic events, I feel, as a gun owner, veteran, and firearms instructor, that your position of knee-jerk, emotional, ignorance is one that is not conducive to the ongoing debate on how to increase safety and security around our nation. This behavior, as viewed by the gun owning public, is never acceptable. No lawful, respectable gun owners would ever condone actions like those taken this morning. We respect life, especially those of our children. Your organization, along with the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, has this fallacious belief that somehow, someway, banning guns will solve anything. These uniformed, emotionally charged beliefs held by the anti-gun community fail to take into account that criminals have absolute zero regard for gun bans, gun control legislation, and any other law that may stand in their way. Are you aware that murder, drunk driving, rape, and assault are all illegal? But for some reason these crimes still happen daily. Contrary to whatever strange, fantasy-world beliefs you and your supporters may have, law-abiding gun owners do not commit crimes. Guns themselves do not commit crimes. Laws banning or "controlling" guns do not deter crimes, they only hinder the law-abiding people who either own guns for their protection and/or hunting/shooting sports.
Your line, and I quote: "If we’ve reached a point where our children cannot attend school without fear of being gunned down by a homicidal maniac who has obtained easy access to firearms, then the freedom we cherish as citizens of the world’s greatest democracy is at risk of extinction." This is a typical "knee-jerk" reaction. One incident happens, while tragic, horrible, and inexcusable, millions of other children will be going home safe tonight, and will return to school safely on Monday. It is groups like yours, and the Brady Campaign, that are the greatest risk to our freedom and liberty. Would you ever condone a ban on certain words just because they're hurtful or offensive? Should we limit the 1st Amendment because people don't like what others are saying or because some say things that incite violence and death? Of course not, these are rights not given by our fellow man, or governments, or legislators, these are rights endowed by our creator, whichever creator you wish to believe in- yet another unalienable right. So what is the difference between the first and the second amendment to the United States Constitution? As an American Veteran who swore an oath to protect and defend that constitution, I see no difference between the two. I see an assault on any freedoms expounded upon in our Constitution as morally, legally, and ethically wrong. In fact, any infringement, on a most basic level, is no more justified than the actions of a depraved, deranged, and cowardly murderer who goes and shoots up a school.
I hope this letter will better inform you of my personal position, and what I can say is the same position of many law abiding parents, children, brothers, sisters, and fellow Americans who just happen to own guns. I ask that you refrain from emotionally charged, irrational, reactionary rhetoric that attacks an inanimate object, and instead go after the behavior and criminals that perpetrate these horrific events.
Thank you,
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Sorry if it's so long...





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