Laz,
Thank you for posting your concern re: President Trump and the Second Amendment, with a Call to Action.
Taxman Bravo Zulu!
I wrote President Trump, my CongressCritter and both Senators the following email letter a few days ago.
[All of you reading this post must understand that your CongressCritter and Senators, as well as POTUS, will probably have a limit on the length of your email letter. Mine was too long, so I had to edit it. I am posting the entire letter I wanted them to read in the hope that it spurs many of you to put yours together and send it.]
Here it is:
Dear President Trump,
I am a retired Navy Captain; I served my country for 28½ years, always bearing in mind that my oath to “. . . support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. . . .” was inviolate. I first took that oath on March 4, 1963, and have re-taken it upon each promotion during my service years. I still honor and live by that Oath.
I am a patriot; I love the United States of America and revere the Rule of Law and the US Constitution, both of which differentiate the USA from every nation in the world. Faith, Freedom, Duty, Honor, Country have been my guide posts throughout life.
As a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, I am very distressed by the knee-jerk “ban the gun mentality” the Liberal chattering and professional political classes have brought into the public debate. Thus far, no pundit or politician has suggested any change to our system which would reduce gun violence.
Indeed, the Liberal “suggestions” and “demands” I am familiar with do nothing more than make criminals of law-abiding citizens. Parenthetically, I believe that IS the REAL Liberal intent, and I further believe that they want to ban private gun ownership in the USA. We must not let them prevail!
I believe that the proper approach to take is to review ALL of the federal laws now on the books and throw out the unconstitutional ones and the ones (and there are many!) that don’t work. Then seek ways and means to enforce the remainder in a proper and Constitutional manner.
Lenient policies and a lack of discipline in our schools and courtrooms are the cause of our difficulties in regards to gun violence and crime, not an absence of laws. We have enough laws; surely we do not need any new ones – a Presidential Commission MIGHT be helpful in this regard.
And, please, drop the notion of implementing or encouraging “Red Flag” laws. It is my considered opinion that existing state “Red Flag” laws are unconstitutional in respect of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution, and will be adjudged so in the near term.
I write to urge you to preserve the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. Please take no action which will infringe on the God-given US citizen’s rights the Founding Fathers so wisely enshrined therein.
Finally, please seek the counsel of John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., Founder and President of The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC - https://crimeresearch.org), “. . . a research and education organization dedicated to conducting academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety; educating the public on the results of such research; and supporting other organizations, projects, and initiatives that are organized and operated for similar purposes.” Please contact him at johnrlott@crimeresearch.org. I believe you will find his advice helpful.
Patriotic Americans are counting on you to stand firm against this liberal assault on our Constitution!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Frank L. Davis, Jr., MBA
Captain, USN (Ret)
cc: Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Rick Scott
Congressman John H. Rutherford
Thanks, Taxman!
For the rest of you readers, it’s best to send a nice, pretty snail mail. But for those of you who don’t want to bother with a good, old fashioned letter, use the page behind this link to send a message to the White House.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Make it concise and polite. State your desire in the first sentence. [For example, “I trust, Mr. President, that you will not sign any document supporting red flag laws or universal background check laws.”] Do it now!
BZ Captain!
Hey, Taxman. How about this for form, Sir?
[Header information, etc.]
Dear Mr. President:
I am low income trailer trash, have held many jobs and was an enlisted rank weekend warrior in a combat platoon for a few years. I am old and un-stylish but have not seriously offended anyone or broken any laws. Please don’t sign any universal background check law, because such law would allow the Democrats to implement a registry of owners of firearms for future confiscation.
Please don’t sign any red flag law, which law would allow neighborhood socialists to violate our civil rights without any remedy for our kind or our smelly, redneck, Walmart-shopping families. Believe it or not, we are human beings, too. Besides, what would folks like you do without gluttonous consumers like us?
Very Sincerely Yours,
Beetle Bailey