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I appreciate your concerns, but I think we are safe on the second amendment issues with Schuler. He's an avid hunter and proponent of responsible gun ownership and use. What I think is interesting, however, is that so many who indicate that the Democratic party is out to "take our guns" are supporting people who are willing to allow our president to order martial law. What do you think all that money to the pentagon to fight BIRD FLU was for? (Surely we can't believe they plan to shoot birds out of the sky with all that money.) Upon doing a bit of digging, I find that it is to enforce martial law....

Amendment II says, "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." Our founding fathers didn't have hunting in mind. Rather, they wanted citizens to be prepared to defend themselves from their own governments if it should be necessary. They had good reason to include that amendment. Check it out and see what our president and his circle have in mind to "protect" us should the bird flu hit the nation. It's frightening, really.

In actuality, I really don't think I'm going to have to protect myself and my rights from the likes of Pelosi. Cheney, Rumsfield, and other Rove-esque figures alarm me much more. We cannot afford to give up any more constitutional rights.

You folks seem hung up on one facet of Heath Schuler. I, too, was apprehensive when I discovered a former football player was running against Taylor. However, after meeting him personally, and listening to him talk to a small gathering about the values I share, such as family, freedom of religion, taking care of our neighbors and PEOPLE, rather than multibillion dollar corporations, I began to thaw. After listening to him field our questions honestly and forthrightly, even if it wasn't always something we wanted to hear, I am convinced that he is our best chance to get that deadbeat Taylor out of office.

That man is using U.S. tax dollars to fund his trips to Russia to visit his business interests there, as well as feather the nests of many of his wealthy cronies. Check it out. He is probably the wealthiest Congressman in office right now. And to think, he was in trouble several years ago for neglecting to pay property taxes for a few years. Oh, and his bank, or should I say, the top executives of his bank, (the American one, not the Russian one), were convicted of some financial shennanigans. They say he gave them the go ahead, but of course, he pleads total innocence. It's high time we cleaned house, don't you think?