The title may sound rude but first we must clearly
understand the term ignorance. It is only a state of a lack of
knowledge. It is a condition that can be repaired. I would hope
to do my civic duty here and alleviate one area of his
ignorance.
I am referring to your staged, duck hunting trip. When
questioned about it you said it was to demonstrate your gun
control efforts were not directed toward hunters. Frankly, Mr.
President, we don't give a damn.
Mr. President, most of us with guns have them for a very
immediate purpose, defense against criminals, the very same
reason your Secret Service guards have guns. And, Mr. President,
we are mad as hell because every proposal we have seen from you
only makes is harder for us to get guns. We do not carry guns on
the street; making it harder for us to gets guns does nothing to
get them off of the street.
We are the people facing armed gangs. Taking "assault
weapons" away from us is not going to do us the least bit of
good, in fact it will kill us.
Mr. President, we are not concerned about the right to
freeze our backsides off in a duck blind early in the morning.
We are concerned about our right to have a chance against house
breakers late at night. I at least have never been attacked by a
duck. I have never heard a report of anyone being attacked by a
duck. I have never heard of a duck robbing a home, raping a
woman, or murdering anyone. Mr. President, I am not afraid of a
duck.
I am afraid for my family and friends being bludgeoned,
stabbed, throttled and shot. I can not find one proposal from
you to alleviate my fear. What I do find from you are proposals
to make my family and friends even more helpless. I find you are
proposing to make things harder on the victims.
Every proposal has been to make self defense more difficult.
Mr. President, I hold I have a god given right to defend myself,
my family, my friends, my property and the political institutions
of this country. I hold I even have a god given right to defend
people I have never met.
I hold all men have these rights. I hold the only way to
exercise these rights is with guns. In my youth I may have
imagined disarming thugs bare handed. With the wisdom that comes
from experience I know I can not call time out to dial 911.
When all you can do is find ways to limit our access to guns
we see you not as the solution but as part of the problem. We
are tired of hearing that the restrictions on us are not all that
bad. We are asking why there are any restrictions at all on us
and none on those we and your Secret Service guard are facing.
Are our lives less than yours? Why can we not have the
submachineguns that protect your life? When will you give up
what we can not have?
You say we do not need submachineguns? Then neither does
your guard. Is your life truly more important than ours?
You do not talk like you understand us at all. Please let
me explain it to you. We do not give a damn about your gun laws.
We will not comply with any law our right to defend what we hold
dear. We are a free people who will not bow to your attempts to
make it harder for us to do so.
Mr. President, you are no longer ignorant. You now know who
we are. What we want from you are measures to reduce crime so we
will not have the absolute necessity of gun ownership. We are
not interested in you making it harder for us and not them. We
do not want you to do something; we want you to do something that
works.
