Texas Senator Ted Cruz Needs Letters Supporting the Second Amendment

Ammo Land ^ | Feb 6, 2013 | Ammo Land Staff

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Houston, Tx --(Ammoland.com)- U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, & Human Rights :

The Senate committee listed above will take up the subject of “Proposals to Reduce Gun Violence: Protecting Our Communities While Respecting the Second Amendment” next Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Senator Cruz is the Ranking Member of this subcommittee.

Senator Cruz is asking for your help.

Please be willing to submit your thoughts on a relevant topic for Sen.Cruz and the committee to consider in the form of a formal letter to the committee which makes either a pro 2nd Amendment argument or a tells a short, compelling, personal story about how you exercised your 2nd Amendment rights in a positive way, such as in defense of yourself, your family, your business, or how you scared off a robber.

Please submit your stories and statements in MS Word, well-written and clear. Then send as an attachment to the email address of Senator Cruz’s staff below. •Jon_McClellan@cruz.senate.gov

Statements must be received by Monday, 20/11/2013 in order to be helpful. Your statement could be submitted into the Congressional Record.

Senator Dick Durbin is the Chairman of the subcommittee and prides himself on carrying in a large stack of statements from the other side to showcase and submit into the record.

Texas Senator Cruz would like to be ready to respond in kind.

Please share this annoucment with any and all Texans who have a story to tell.

[ottbmare]

OK, I respect your privacy. But since you criticize me and Cruz, and do not subscribe to our belief that popular opinion may be swayed if we counter the left-wing narrative with a narrative of our own, then I ask you for suggestions about what should be done. Criticism is not helpful unless you can propose an alternative.

[Aurorales]

Go write your letter then.

While you’re at it, why don’t you write one to Barry too!
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Dear EL Presidente,

I respectfully request that you stop infringing on my rights as an American.

Plz get back to me, as this is reallllllly important.

Respectfully,
A Concerned Citizen
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If you would like, you have my permission to use the above template.

Just be sure to keep your head in the sand. I wouldn’t want you to pull something.

[catfish1957]

Like others have said, you talk the big talk, but are short on alternatives. Till then you credibility is near zero.

[Aurorales]

The truth shall set you free.

I have a grasp on reality. You are living in fantasy land.

If that is what you call “big talk” then so be it.

I have no better plan other than to pray. As for the rest, I will act accordingly as time passes.

I happen to like my “plan”.

If it makes you feel better to put me down because I gave you a dose of reality, have at it. Living in ignorance with regards to our nation is not something I will do. Nor will I shut up because you or anyone else is afraid to hear the truth.

[Aurorales]

One more thing.

Your “tilting at windmills” is not a plan. You are wasting your time and energy. You are doing exactly what they want you to do.

Playing tiddly winks with your dog would be time better spent.

I’ll keep praying and speaking the truth.

[BattleFlag]

I've read and re-read your posts in this thread and what I'm getting from them is "do nothing".

Is that what you recommend?

[Aurorales]

Please show me where I said “do nothing”.

You have taken other FReepers comments about what I said and twisted them into mine.

Here is what I said in a nutshell.

Letter writing to ask to keep what our Constitution gives us the right to have is pointless.

Anyone, and that includes senators and FReepers, who thinks it will help is woefully ignorant of the reality of the takeover of our government.

Are you trying to bait me into saying we should storm the Whitehouse? It is starting to feel like I am being baited into making unlawful threats.

Go sit and spin if that is what you want out of me.

I have already stated that what I will or won’t do is My business.

I am praying. That I will readily admit on this open forum.
Praying is the strongest thing I can do. If you think praying is “nothing”, well....I have nothing good to say about that.

[unixfox]

Here’s my letters.

F U B O!

[unixfox]

Attacking Senator Cruz???

I don't think it was an attack catfish, rather making sure he's kept on a short leash.

We all know what happens to most of them once they are elected.

[BattleFlag]

I simply looked at your words to find what you suggest doing as you plainly state that there is no point in writing letters.

You came into this thread and rather than simply pass it by as something you do not wish to do, you launch into a rant about how useless it is.

Normally in civil conversation if you believe a course of action is unproductive most people would offer an alternative.

So what do you suggest?

[csmusaret]

Just go here Senator...http://equalforce.net/EqualForce2/UNDERREPORTED_NEWS_OF_SELF_DEFENSE_THROUGHOUT_AMERICA.html

[LearsFool]

It is starting to feel like I am being baited into making unlawful threats.

Of course we're being baited. Perhaps not by fellow FReepers, and perhaps not by Senator Cruz. But consider:

The Second Amendment is not about self-defense against gang-bangers and home-invaders. So why ask for that kind of story in these "letters supporting the second amendment"? He may as well ask for photos from last winter's deer hunt...They're every bit as relevant! (Maybe someone could send him a copy of Teddy Roosevelt's book on big game hunting.)

If he wants a story in support of the Second Amendment, let him go take a tour of Lexington Green.

The Second Amendment is the "nuclear option" most gun-owners don't want to talk about - don't even want to think about. The mere fact that citizens possess arms ought to be enough to keep the subject from ever coming up at all. But this administration is bolder than any before it, and they're not only willing to have the discussion, but apparently anxious for the fight that could come with it if we don't capitulate.

Washington is goading us into a fight. Cruz is either part of it or simply naive. He needs to realize that it's because of his position and power that the Second Amendment exists, and that we are duty-bound to distrust him.

If he wants to win our trust, if he wants to bring a halt to this dangerous debate before it escalates, if he wants to restore some "domestic tranquility", he needs to tell his fellows in Washington to STAND DOWN so that Americans can do the same.

(And if he doesn't understand any of this, his ignorance and naivete are weapons that'll be turned on us.)

[Weirdad]

From the old story, “... A Free Republic is when you are NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE ON WHAT’S FOR DINNER and the sheep are armed.”

I so far love Ted Cruz, and have supported him. He is a good guy. But I agree with your sentiment that he does not and should not need our letters. He should stand on and educate about PRINCIPLE and not muddy himself in their petty “Jerry Springer Theater” games.

If we play their game we have already lost. We do not need “data” to retain our unalienable right to effective self defense against bad guys and despotic governments.

We should never play their game. “Progressives” always smugly want “data” to make decisions by — especially decisions that they don’t have the right to make. When they ask for hearing and “data” they already have used our money to collect lies, damn lies, and statistics that always distort reality, and they are ready to ramrod the low information group around them with their little Dephi technique games and control of the media.

There are lots of evil schemes that might seem pragmatic supported by lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The point is not to be drawn into an argument that involves PRAGMATICS when PRINCIPLE has already declared that an argument is not allowed.

Use your bully pulpit to teach the PRINCIPLE. Don’t play in the mud with those scum.

[deport]

well that is my business.

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Yep you are 100% correct that it is your business.

So now why isn’t it the right of others to make it their business to write letters if they so choose?

[catfish1957]

Whatever...., in my honest opinion, he’s a nut job.

[catfish1957]

I guess it is also his business to insult the few conservative legislators we have left.

[Aurorales]

I am a woman, and yes it is my business.

[Sans-Culotte]

Cruz is my senator and I will be writing him. Don’t waste your time on the Freepers who are trashing you. You can post anything at FR and piss off half the readership.

[Weirdad]

Sans-Culotte, great, but are you going to write him and encourage him to focus on little personalized anecdotes about guns? To play their little liberal game that our unalienable right to effective self defense (from bad guys and despotic governments both) actually depends on whether or not our stories appeal to the masses and the media?

Or are you going to write a letter to give Senator Cruz the WISE AND TOUGH COUNSEL HE NEEDS, and tell him NOT to play that pathetic game, and instead tell him to USE HIS BULLY PULPIT to educate low information Americans about AMERICAN PRINCIPLES, and how any discussion about limiting our right to self defense is OFF THE TABLE and DOES NOT DEPEND on selling little stories to “a majority” ???

President Reagan as the great educator would NOT take to route of anecdotes, and his staff would not be asking for them. He would educate on principle.

Senator Cruz is a new Senator. It was not HIM directly asking for help — it was staff or friends or whoever — they have mislead our conservative legislators over and over in the past. We are the board of directors, and the Senator is one of the legislative executives we have working for us, and it is our job to protect him from continuity staff, and set the tone for the entire war.

The war on communofascism is not going to be won by acting like our unalienable rights are up for grabs if we can’t cite appealing stories.

Even one as principled as Ted Cruz can end up playing the wrong game if we just go blindly along with bad ideas. Tell him the truth.

[catfish1957]

You got to wonder about the conservative credentials of those who trash strong conservatives like Cruz.