Ocala Editorial: 357BestDefense, I'm sure you saw it.

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jeffelkins

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Our local newspaper, The Ocala Star-Banner today published an long editorial: 'Ban Handguns Now' - They didn't have the balls to put in on their website http://www.starbanner.com but it was the typical statist trash; but a bit more shrill. Bottom line; they want handguns confiscated and non-compliant handgun owners jailed.

My letter to the editor follows

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Dear Editor,

It was with dismay but not surprise that I read your editorial of March 3rd, 2000 - Ban Handguns Now.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Second Amendment of the constitution was written for one purpose and one purpose only; to enable Americans to physically protect themselves from the marauders who would make them slaves; including oppressive government. It's the ultimate 'check and balance' of our constitutional republic. The 2nd. Amendment serves as the guardian for the 1st.

I charge the Star Banner and the mass media in general with violation of their constitutionally mandated duty to preserve, protect and inform the people regarding those who would enslave us. Your editorial position is beneath contempt.
 
Nasty stinking commies, that's right up the road from me, I'm in lakeland. I've got quite a few relatives in Ocala and with as much hunting / track / skeet / target shooters as are up there it seems like they'll probably catch a reasonable amount of flack from that one.
 
Hey Jeff,

About three months ago, the Star Banner published an editorial suggesting that guns be banned. I wrote an op-ed piece, took it to the editor (Brad Rogers), and he published it. However, the paper will only publish one op-ed piece per person every six months, so I probably won't be able to get a second piece published.

I talked with Brad for quite some time on several occasions, and although he is a nice guy, he is radical-liberal on issues such as the 2nd Amendment. I gave him a copy of my book, but I don't know if he read it or not. Anyway, it's a shame, but the only way he'll change his mind is if he gets mugged.

Robert
 
Jeffelkins, Congratulations on your reply
to the editor. Way to go. I hope he publishes it but I doubt that he will.

If you want to see your replies published,
you need to tone them down a bit and not
attack the newspaper that you are trying to get to print your editorial reply.

I know, because I have been in your boat,
that the nonsense anti gun editorial got
you furriously p.o.- ed and probably sent your blood pressure through the roof & no doubt you walked around your den muttering
indictives fouriously.

But, WE need to take a step back and
cool off a bit and be polite and coutrious
and reasonable and not so fire & brimstone

so that we are not taken to be----
red eyed, glaring,beer drinking, heavy breathing,unwashed & smelly,uncooth& uneducated,
gun tote ing second ammendment rednecks or
whatever other crap the liberal,communist,
socialist elitests call us.

What you wrote to the editor was right &
correct, but you came on way too strong and
you need to find more refined ways to say
something somewhat similar if you wish to do more than P.O. the editor and if you want to actually get your piece published.

I had some good letters to the editor not published and filed in the wastepaper basket on me because, you see, I have the same faults as you do.

So we both need to be more refined and eliquent in order to get published by the bastard rotten liberal papers.@#$%^&*()_+|!~
and then some times 4! :mad: :p :D

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GUN CONTROL puts THE CONTROL
in the hands of THE CRIMINALS.

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You all have my permision to
use any of these"signatures"
here, if you like!
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-They call 'em POLUTE-TICIANS because they POLUTE the MINDS
of OUR CHILDERN with their ANTI civil/firearms RIGHTS SOCIALIST
political agendas. We of the older generations know B.S.
when we hear it.
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In 2000, we must become politically active in
support of gun rights or we WILL LOSE the right
& the freedom.
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NO FATE BUT WHAT WE MAKE!!!
----------------------
Every year,over 2 million Americans use firearms
not to take live but to preserve life,....limb & family
.Gun Control Democrats would prefer that they are all disarmed
and helpless and die victims of felony violence,instead.

Protect your gun rights, go to:
http://home.xnet.com/~gizmonic/TheMarch.html
and sign up as a helper or attendee or state organizer.
ernest2, Conn. CAN opp. "Do What You Can"!
http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/cansite/can.html
 
As an alternative to what you wrote to the editor, prehaps try something alone these
linees:

Dear Editor:Please give some thought and serious consideration about the consequences
and cost in lives paid due to your advocaitcy
of victim disarmanent laws.

2.5 million law abiding citizens use handguns, not to kill,
but to prevent criminal violence from occuring to themselves and their loved ones,
each and every year.
If you should suceed in your victim disarmament plans, the afore mentioned
handgun owners would no longer be able to
have handguns to stop criminal human violence
from occuring to them and their loved ones and would have to die because of your handgun ban.

This could result in 900,000 needless and preventable deaths each year ,right here in America because of your hand gun ban , not against criminals, but rather ,against the law abiding, who deserve and should not be denied, protection.
Your handgun ban will not affect the criminals guns, which are already illegally possessed, but will only cause more needless deaths but placing the honest at the mercy of armed felons.

Enforce the laws already on the books, all 25,000 of them but please do not take away my civil rights to self defense and continued existance and leave me a defenseless victim
of fully armed criminals.

Please help preserve my civil rights!

------------------
GUN CONTROL puts THE CONTROL
in the hands of THE CRIMINALS.

--------------------------------
You all have my permision to
use any of these"signatures"
here, if you like!
---------------------------

-They call 'em POLUTE-TICIANS because they POLUTE the MINDS
of OUR CHILDERN with their ANTI civil/firearms RIGHTS SOCIALIST
political agendas. We of the older generations know B.S.
when we hear it.
-----------------------------------------------
In 2000, we must become politically active in
support of gun rights or we WILL LOSE the right
& the freedom.
-------------------------
NO FATE BUT WHAT WE MAKE!!!
----------------------
Every year,over 2 million Americans use firearms
not to take live but to preserve life,....limb & family
.Gun Control Democrats would prefer that they are all disarmed
and helpless and die victims of felony violence,instead.

Protect your gun rights, go to:
http://home.xnet.com/~gizmonic/TheMarch.html
and sign up as a helper or attendee or state organizer.
ernest2, Conn. CAN opp. "Do What You Can"!
http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/cansite/can.html
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bestdefense357:
Hey Jeff,

However, the paper will only publish one op-ed piece per person every six months, so I probably won't be able to get a second piece published.

Robert [/quote]

If you don't mind not seeing your name attached to more op ed pieces you could write them and have them submitted by others who believe as we do. Or you could sumbit them under pseudonyms.
 
Actually, I could care less if my letter is published. I wrote to tell the socialist pondscum what I though of them and I felt much better for doing so.

Robert covered the facts about gun control and self defense quite eloquently in an editorial for this paper a few months back. Obviously, it had no effect on the editorial board.

Me, I'd just like to hear the editor's opinion after he's mugged and his wife is gang-raped.

Or better yet, his wife's mugged and HE's gang-raped.

end of rant.
 
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