My wife and I sent our Senators and Congressman a fax and a follow up e-mail concerning the Juvenile Justice bill, Dianne Feinstien was the first to respond, All I can say is that it is time for a new California Senator.....Here is a copy of my FAX and my wifes was a modified version of the same thing....
Dear Senator Feinstein 09 September 99
THIS IS NOT AN HCI LETTER Please read on.....
Juvenile Justice Conference Committee
While you were on summer recess, it happened again. Another mass shooting, this time at a Jewish
Community Center in Los Angeles. Fortunately no one was killed at the Center,
but that was just plain luck.
The self-proclaimed "white supremacist" responsible for this hate-motivated act of violence clearly intended to commit murder when he entered the lobby of the Center carrying an Uzi and opened fire, seriously wounding an elderly receptionist, a teenage counselor and three small children. Then, after fleeing the scene of his rampage, the same madman shot and killed a postal worker simply because his skin wasn't white.
Los Angeles is the fourth mass shooting that has taken place in the four months since the April massacre at Columbine High School, where 15 people lost their
lives, and since Congress promised to pass legislation to help end such senseless carnage. The other rampages resulted in four woundings in Conyers, Georgia, two deaths in Chicago and nine deaths in Atlanta. All three of these incidents occurred before you left on vacation. When is it going to end? When is Congress going to find the courage to stand up to HCI and tell them that enough is enough. One more Useless gun law would not have made the difference in any of these cases. I ask that you do the sensible thing and stop trying to push useless feel good legislation. Instead Join the NRA, follow their lead and pass the kind of laws that will keep guns out of the hands of deranged
men like Benjamin Smith,Buford Furrow and Mark Barton, and disturbed
children like Columbine students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. At a minimum Pass laws that will make it easier to enforce the 20,000 laws currently on the books and make it easier to get a conviction on deranged individuals such as these. It is time to put the blame where the blame lies. The Law abiding citizen IS NOT TO BLAME and therefore should not be made to suffer! I urge you to take a stand right now and insist that the Juvenile justice Committee REJECT the senseless gun control measures passed by the Senate in the juvenile justice legislation. And I want you to understand that what you do, or don't do, in the critical weeks ahead will determine what I, my family and friends do on election day, 2000. A pro-gun stance will result in a pro-gun vote in November!
Sincerely, Mrs El Jefe
Here is her response to my Wife's FAX ( A Pro Gun woman standing up for her rights..A liberals nightmare!)
Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to gun control. I appreciate hearing your views on this matter, however it seems this is an issue upon which we must agree to disagree. Since I arrived in the Senate in 1992, I have been working
to limit the illegitimate use of powerful firearms in this country. I have long supported reasonable gun control laws.
Recently, there has been some increasing controversy about the Second Amendment and the enforcement of current gun control
laws. I would like to take this Opportunity to address both of these issues, in order to set the record straight. I have always taken seriously the guarantees of the Bill of
Rights, and I realize that opponents of gun control believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a broad, individual right to keep and bear arms. However, there is nothing in the Second Amendment that prohibits prudent, common-sense regulation of firearms. The Supreme Court has never struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds, and I
do not believe that it ever will. I do agree that we need to enforce existing laws and
prosecute criminals who have committed gun crimes. For instance, I am a strong supporter of Project Exile, a program pioneered in Richmond, Virginia that increases state and federal co-operation
in the prosecution of gun crimes. As you may know, the Project Exile program has proven successful in removing guns and
criminals off the streets, and is now expanding into California. Additionally, I have contacted the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the agency charged with investigating background checks. According to the BATF, the
recent lack of some prosecutions is due in part to a lack of time and resources. The agency hopes to address this issue by hiring
160 new agents this year. Furthermore, I have personally written to Secretary of Treasury Rubin regarding this issue and it is my hope that steps will be taken to increase the number of agents working on these cases. At the same time, I feel there is much more to be done. The problem of gun violence in this country is a serious one,
particularly in relation to our children. The assault weapon attack on four children and an adult at a Jewish Community Center
in Los Angeles and the recent church shooting during a youth prayer meeting in Texas are but the latest of terrifying shooting rampages all across our country.
To that end, I am proposing a national system of licensing and registration to help stem the flow of gun violence in America. Under this proposal, firearms would be treated like cars: owners would be licensed and firearms would be registered. Minimum national standards will help to ensure that everyone who buys a gun in this country is qualified to own one. Licensing and registration - on a nationwide basis - would allow law enforcement to quickly and efficiently trace guns used in crimes to the perpetrators of that crime, without unduly affecting innocent gun owners.
I am also considering further restrictions on deadly assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for firearms. I have long
believed that semi-automatic assault weapons do not belong on our streets. These assault weapons and high-capacity clips are not
needed by legitimate sportsman and hunters. Rather, they are weapons of war designed solely to permit the maximum number of
persons to be killed in the least possible time.
I know you feel strongly about this, and it appears that we will continue to be in disagreement on this issue. However, I do
thank you for writing and I will be sure to keep your views in mind as the gun control debate continues.
If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841.
With warmest personal regards. Dianne Feinstein
This woman needs to go...California wake up and get to the Voting booth We have but one vote in this house ( I vote absentee in Florida) So she is already down by one!
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...“ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
..."The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas Jefferson
... "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure." Albert Einstein
... "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."Ronald Reagan
Take care and God Bless, El Jefe
[This message has been edited by El Jefe (edited November 11, 1999).]
Dear Senator Feinstein 09 September 99
THIS IS NOT AN HCI LETTER Please read on.....
Juvenile Justice Conference Committee
While you were on summer recess, it happened again. Another mass shooting, this time at a Jewish
Community Center in Los Angeles. Fortunately no one was killed at the Center,
but that was just plain luck.
The self-proclaimed "white supremacist" responsible for this hate-motivated act of violence clearly intended to commit murder when he entered the lobby of the Center carrying an Uzi and opened fire, seriously wounding an elderly receptionist, a teenage counselor and three small children. Then, after fleeing the scene of his rampage, the same madman shot and killed a postal worker simply because his skin wasn't white.
Los Angeles is the fourth mass shooting that has taken place in the four months since the April massacre at Columbine High School, where 15 people lost their
lives, and since Congress promised to pass legislation to help end such senseless carnage. The other rampages resulted in four woundings in Conyers, Georgia, two deaths in Chicago and nine deaths in Atlanta. All three of these incidents occurred before you left on vacation. When is it going to end? When is Congress going to find the courage to stand up to HCI and tell them that enough is enough. One more Useless gun law would not have made the difference in any of these cases. I ask that you do the sensible thing and stop trying to push useless feel good legislation. Instead Join the NRA, follow their lead and pass the kind of laws that will keep guns out of the hands of deranged
men like Benjamin Smith,Buford Furrow and Mark Barton, and disturbed
children like Columbine students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. At a minimum Pass laws that will make it easier to enforce the 20,000 laws currently on the books and make it easier to get a conviction on deranged individuals such as these. It is time to put the blame where the blame lies. The Law abiding citizen IS NOT TO BLAME and therefore should not be made to suffer! I urge you to take a stand right now and insist that the Juvenile justice Committee REJECT the senseless gun control measures passed by the Senate in the juvenile justice legislation. And I want you to understand that what you do, or don't do, in the critical weeks ahead will determine what I, my family and friends do on election day, 2000. A pro-gun stance will result in a pro-gun vote in November!
Sincerely, Mrs El Jefe
Here is her response to my Wife's FAX ( A Pro Gun woman standing up for her rights..A liberals nightmare!)
Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to gun control. I appreciate hearing your views on this matter, however it seems this is an issue upon which we must agree to disagree. Since I arrived in the Senate in 1992, I have been working
to limit the illegitimate use of powerful firearms in this country. I have long supported reasonable gun control laws.
Recently, there has been some increasing controversy about the Second Amendment and the enforcement of current gun control
laws. I would like to take this Opportunity to address both of these issues, in order to set the record straight. I have always taken seriously the guarantees of the Bill of
Rights, and I realize that opponents of gun control believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a broad, individual right to keep and bear arms. However, there is nothing in the Second Amendment that prohibits prudent, common-sense regulation of firearms. The Supreme Court has never struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds, and I
do not believe that it ever will. I do agree that we need to enforce existing laws and
prosecute criminals who have committed gun crimes. For instance, I am a strong supporter of Project Exile, a program pioneered in Richmond, Virginia that increases state and federal co-operation
in the prosecution of gun crimes. As you may know, the Project Exile program has proven successful in removing guns and
criminals off the streets, and is now expanding into California. Additionally, I have contacted the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the agency charged with investigating background checks. According to the BATF, the
recent lack of some prosecutions is due in part to a lack of time and resources. The agency hopes to address this issue by hiring
160 new agents this year. Furthermore, I have personally written to Secretary of Treasury Rubin regarding this issue and it is my hope that steps will be taken to increase the number of agents working on these cases. At the same time, I feel there is much more to be done. The problem of gun violence in this country is a serious one,
particularly in relation to our children. The assault weapon attack on four children and an adult at a Jewish Community Center
in Los Angeles and the recent church shooting during a youth prayer meeting in Texas are but the latest of terrifying shooting rampages all across our country.
To that end, I am proposing a national system of licensing and registration to help stem the flow of gun violence in America. Under this proposal, firearms would be treated like cars: owners would be licensed and firearms would be registered. Minimum national standards will help to ensure that everyone who buys a gun in this country is qualified to own one. Licensing and registration - on a nationwide basis - would allow law enforcement to quickly and efficiently trace guns used in crimes to the perpetrators of that crime, without unduly affecting innocent gun owners.
I am also considering further restrictions on deadly assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for firearms. I have long
believed that semi-automatic assault weapons do not belong on our streets. These assault weapons and high-capacity clips are not
needed by legitimate sportsman and hunters. Rather, they are weapons of war designed solely to permit the maximum number of
persons to be killed in the least possible time.
I know you feel strongly about this, and it appears that we will continue to be in disagreement on this issue. However, I do
thank you for writing and I will be sure to keep your views in mind as the gun control debate continues.
If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841.
With warmest personal regards. Dianne Feinstein
This woman needs to go...California wake up and get to the Voting booth We have but one vote in this house ( I vote absentee in Florida) So she is already down by one!
------------------
...“ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
..."The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas Jefferson
... "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure." Albert Einstein
... "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."Ronald Reagan
Take care and God Bless, El Jefe
[This message has been edited by El Jefe (edited November 11, 1999).]