‘No ma’am’: Letter from U.S. Marine to Dianne Feinstein goes viral

BizPacReview.com ^ | January 1, 2013 | Michele Kirk

[T.O.K.]

The following letter, written by U.S. Marine Joshua Boston and headlined “No ma’am.,” was posted in the CNN iReport on Dec. 27 with the included note from the producer and photo. It has struck a nerve with many and is being circulated around social media venues like Twitter and Facebook.

Senator Dianne Feinstein,

I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.

I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.

I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.

We, the people, deserve better than you.

Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012

[ought-six]

“While probably true, I must point out that there is no such thing as a former Marine.”

You are wrong, sir. There are FORMER Marines, but there are no EX-Marines. (However, even that may be disputed, as I know some Gyrenes who take the position that if one is unceremoniously booted out of the Corps, or dishonorably discharged, that can constitute an EX-Marine.)

[wrench]

No they don’t. It was MEN who fought and died to make this country free.

[SisterK]

Yep...If he does get married it could damage his life. Not all wives are created equal.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thank you for correcting my semantical digression.

[NFHale]

“...Gun Show and Gun Shop emptying is not also not really about guns, but to make that same statement loudly and clearly....”

It’s the loudest Public Opinion poll result we can make.

[NFHale]

He’s a Marine, serving his Country, and by this letter, he shows he understands what is to be an American.

For that alone, he gets respect.

Grow up.

[familyop]

"Sometimes Gun Control is necessary. One night my husband stayed out late at the local bar...He was also drunk."

There are already laws against carrying firearms while drunk. There's no need for more anti-Second-Amendment gun control against law abiding citizens.

And obviously, per capita, more "progressives" (including feminists, homos, all) are more often drunk than are conservatives. Romanticist socialists--those behind the attacks against America's Second Amendment--should rid themselves of their addictions before minding the business of healthier people.

[NFHale]

God bless you, Marine.

[Godebert]

America died 4 years ago. Just a bunch of vultures, cowards and traitors feeding on it’s rotting corpse.

[NFHale]

Some, not all.

[mdmathis6]

Precursor symptoms may occur as early as the mid 40’s and often get confused and passed off as “those subtle declines” that begin occuring in ones life anyway.

It doesn’t surprise me that he developed alzheimers...which when I read your posting I was prompted to ask about his developing dementia. Hopefully you do see that some of your marriage issues may have had something to do with the mental storm he had been dealing with for decades while not exactly being entirely conscious of what was happening to him.

I also feel for you as it must have been frustrating for you in dealing with those sudden illogical twists and increasing quirkiness of his personality and lapses of judgment and memory with any angry emotionality that went with all that.

[pabianice]

She is an evil witch, isn’t she? I saw her on Fox over the weekend and her eyes actually POPPED out of her head, veins throbbing, teeth gritted, leaning into the camera, hands clenched, spittle on her lips, when she launched into gun control for YOU (but not for her armed security force, of course). She really is bat-shit crazy and she let her guard down so we could see it.

[proud American in Canada]

“I don’t respect any man that served the Usurper.”

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The members of the military, as far as I understand it, do not serve the Commander in Chief; they serve the people of the United States, their country. This isn’t North Korea.

I salute him for speaking out. It took courage. Which the members of the U.S. military have in spades. :)

[Candor7]

Thash a Troll ya gut there!

[proud American in Canada]

“former Marine”
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According to Leroy Jethro Gibbs, of N.C.I.S., there’s no such thing as a former Marine. :)

[Ancient Drive]

You are right. There no such thing, hence Semper Fidelis.

[Ancient Drive]

Did a little quick job with GIMP.

[Silentgypsy]

Concur.

[proud American in Canada]

“You are right. There no such thing, hence Semper Fidelis.”

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I take it that you are a former member of the Marines or another branch of the military. I thank you for your service, if I’m right, and God Bless you and yours. :)

Julie

[gleeaikin]

I checked back to my two answers. I believe you had said something about how at least he did work on the house, and I clarified that in the earlier part of the marriage, not so much but that Alzheimers changed his brain in a way that did enable us to work well together.