I am planning on sending to following letter to all members of Congress and the White House. I hve not intentionally copied anyone but the ideas in the letter are much the same as ideas posted here and ideas that I have read. If you see any parts where credit needs to be given or have any suggestions for improvement, please feel free to let me know.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The time has come to lay our cards on the table.
The very freedom that this great country was founded on is being eroded. I, along with millions of gun owners, believe the time has come for gun control advocates to stand with courage and state what their goals are. We have had enough back door politics. State the goal and let us fight it out in court.
I am what gun control advocates consider a "gun nut." I am also a law-abiding citizen. I am the Director of Security for the company I work for. I attended a military college. I have been honorably discharged from the Marine Corp. I am directly and indirectly responsible for the arrest of over two hundred criminals. Yet I am the one whose freedom is being taken away. I can not understand the irony.
There are evil people in our society and I completely understand that guns help evil people to do evil things. You need to completely understand the evil is within the person. Evil is not found in an inanimate object. Punish those that deserve it and punish them hard but leave the rest of us alone.
The gun is not worth fighting for. The freedom it represents is. How can gun control advocates stand there and completely ignore the very principals this country was founded on? Have they not read the Bill of Rights? Or the Constitution? Do they really want their children growing up in the type of society that will emerge if they accomplish what they are setting out to do? History repeats itself.
Make no mistake about it. Gun owners are not the imbeciles you portray them as. We know what the goal is-confiscation. We will not stand by and let it happen. I for one, promise you that I will not turn in one gun. Never. I will destroy everything I own before I give gun control advocates the satisfaction of seeing me turn in one article of freedom. State what you want and listen to the courts. Listen to the people.
The time has come to lay our cards on the table.
Eric A. Yarnell
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The time has come to lay our cards on the table.
The very freedom that this great country was founded on is being eroded. I, along with millions of gun owners, believe the time has come for gun control advocates to stand with courage and state what their goals are. We have had enough back door politics. State the goal and let us fight it out in court.
I am what gun control advocates consider a "gun nut." I am also a law-abiding citizen. I am the Director of Security for the company I work for. I attended a military college. I have been honorably discharged from the Marine Corp. I am directly and indirectly responsible for the arrest of over two hundred criminals. Yet I am the one whose freedom is being taken away. I can not understand the irony.
There are evil people in our society and I completely understand that guns help evil people to do evil things. You need to completely understand the evil is within the person. Evil is not found in an inanimate object. Punish those that deserve it and punish them hard but leave the rest of us alone.
The gun is not worth fighting for. The freedom it represents is. How can gun control advocates stand there and completely ignore the very principals this country was founded on? Have they not read the Bill of Rights? Or the Constitution? Do they really want their children growing up in the type of society that will emerge if they accomplish what they are setting out to do? History repeats itself.
Make no mistake about it. Gun owners are not the imbeciles you portray them as. We know what the goal is-confiscation. We will not stand by and let it happen. I for one, promise you that I will not turn in one gun. Never. I will destroy everything I own before I give gun control advocates the satisfaction of seeing me turn in one article of freedom. State what you want and listen to the courts. Listen to the people.
The time has come to lay our cards on the table.
Eric A. Yarnell