Hoo-Rah 
They don’t call them Jugheads for nothing. What’s that? It’s Jarhead? Oh well, not much difference.
Me Man! Me no listen to Wo-Man!
FTFY.
Eh. Not particularly deep or well-written.
If it hadn’t been written by a Marine, it wouldn’t have gotten any traction.
FWIW Dianne Feinstein carries a gun for personal protection. She’s also a known proponent of strong gun control. A bit like the pot calling the kettle black. <shrug> She’s so far left it’s not even funny. She’s been a PITA for many, many years.
How does carrying a gun conflict with strong gun control?
Usually the gun as substitute penis undercurrent in these kinds of messages isn’t quite so…overt.
Carrying a handgun for personal protection does not contradict a desire to ban assault rifles, any more than banning leaded gasoline means going door to door and confiscating golf carts.
I’ve always wondered this too. Why aren’t responsible gun owners supporting strong regulation and registration? It makes it seem like all gun owners want guns to be sold everywhere like candy bars. It’s letters like this which make responsible gun owners look bad.
I’m going to write a letter like this to my local tax collector to state that I’m no longer registering my car. How dare she demand I register my vehicle! I know it’s just so she can come take it away from me one day!
She voted against the Vitter Amendment, that prohibits the confiscation of lawfully-possessed firearms.
From 1995:
That letter is a good example of why the word “over-written” was invented.
nmn.
The letter makes a good point that law abiding citizens and people that fought to protect this country shouldn’t be punished for the actions of a few mentally ill criminals. You can count the major spree killers in the past twenty years on both hands.
We’ve sent nearly a million reservists into Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. A lot of those men returned wounded or even dead. Why should the actions of a few sick bastards that shot up a school, Sikh Temple, or a movie theater take away the gun rights of millions? It makes no sense.
Because there are so few of them most likely.
No it doesn’t. Or, if it does, it does so poorly and clumsily.
I can’t figure out what this has to do with anything.
From things I’ve read here in the past month, responsible gun owners believe that we already HAVE strong regulation and registration, and they’re not seeing (or don’t feel responsible for) the information gap between what they know of the current setup because they had to through it all, and what the non-gun-owning public fail to understand because they’ve never gone through it.
What we also have is a relatively tiny number of people with a propensity to go nuts, grab a relatively tiny percentage of the guns and start shooting the place up, and the non-gun-owning populace sees a simple, unenforcable, and (in the eyes of the gun-owning public), ineffective solution: take away most (if not all) of the guns, require that the rest be locked up in safes, and find some way to tell in advance if somebody who would currently pass all the tests will some day snap like a twig, get out the keys to the gun safe, and start shooting.
And where do you live that you have a local tax collector? Just curious.
A lot of veterans own and fire civilian assault weapons. At least that’s the way it seems at the ranges I’ve visited. It’s always ex military guys firing the AR-15’s. It’s a hobby they enjoy.
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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.
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This asshole uses his service to this country to back up his position, while at the same time threatening to willfully disobey a (hypothetical) law of the land.
Which is it? Do you support this nation and its flaws, or does your sense of honor and duty only go so far as the laws and rules that appeal to you? What other laws do you feel like you have a right to disobey because you are an ex-soldier?
As an elected representative, it most certainly is her domain.
I get where he’s going here, I think; that an elected representative serves the people (and we are not her peasants to squash at will, or something), but this bit comes off as creepy, disgusting, and anti-democratic. There is a strong implication that because he was a soldier, that he is in a position of authority over another person. Fuck that noise.
aceplace57, what about this letter caused you to endorse it? That the guy put a senator in her place? That he will refuse to obey the law if it is enacted? That the dude was a soldier, and so his rant is more worthy of note than the scrawlings of an ordinary citizen?
ETA: ah, on review, it looks like it’s because there are ex-soldiers who don’t want to give up guns, and their opinions count more. Gotcha. Won’t someone think of the veterans!
Does that somehow give them more of a right to own a firearm than somebody who hasn’t served in the military?
Ahem, he was a Marine. It matters to some people.