Let me start by saying that I think your brand of self deprecating humor is rather funny most of the time...I also like that you're are a woman who celebrates her curves....In my opinion most women in the media spotlight today need to eat a cheeseburger or two. But after your appearance on SNL last night I have lost all respect for you.
I'm not against all gun laws, nor are many other responsible gun owners. But I want guns laws to be smart and realistic. I recognize that many of the pro-gun blowhards who fight against any new gun laws say a lot of ridiculous things. But then again so do the tree hugging gun control nuts! While I believe in the right to self-defense, and indeed that all rights are effectively meaningless if you don't have control over your own life, body, and personal safety. But we live in a society where we can't move freely without a rational fear of being murdered, we should....but sadly we don't....(Fact) 42% of Americans will be the victim of a completed violent crime (assault, robbery, rape) in the course of their lives. 83% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime. 52% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once!
I am sensitive to the very real problem of gun deaths in this country. But none of those deaths, tragic as they are, negate my fundamental right and duty to protect myself and my loved ones from harm. We can debate new laws that may have an effect on the margins, but most gun deaths reflect much broader problems in American society. Those who make the policies need to address the underlying causes of gun deaths — particularly suicide, drug prohibition, and domestic violence, on their own terms without abridging law-abiding Americans' fundamental right to self-defense.
But the conversation in the media has been dominated by extremists on both sides and by people like yourself, who have no idea what they're actually talking about. I'm a man who fully understands that self-defense isn't an abstract concept, and that more can be done to reduce gun deaths. But the answer is not an all out ban on Guns!!!!
I'm not a Second Amendment absolutist, and I am open to changes to our gun laws. But gun ownership is important to me, and responsible individuals must be allowed to make the choice for themselves and their families.
Personal safety is ultimately up to each individual, and a responsible person makes adjustments when other people break the rules. There are plenty of people who were in the right who are in the cemetery now. The threat of violence is a part of life. You can get beaten up and killed in this country just for looking at someone the wrong way, or jumped because you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hell in this country you can be killed for the shoes you are wearing, or for wearing the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood.
On average 33,000 people a year die in automobile accidents in this country every year, and yet I see no one on the television screaming that we need to outlaw cars and trucks. 80,000 people die each year in America from the consumption of alcohol and yet nope.....still no one on television crying for the banning of alcohol sales! (we tried that once and it worked out oh so well didn't it?) 4.5 million people are bitten every year in the U.S. by dogs and yet you guessed it, nobody but P.E.T.A says a word about ending the right of law abiding citizens to own a family pet
Here is a fact you will never hear form the anti-gun lobby! In 1982, the Kennesaw, Georgia City Council unanimously passed a law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm with ammunition.
a) In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.
(b) Exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who suffer a physical or mental disability which would prohibit them from using such a firearm. Further exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who are paupers or who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine, or persons convicted of a felony.
Do you know what happened the first year after they passed that law? Instead of mass shootings and chaos and bodies stacking up in the streets (as the left wing predicted) crime actually dropped in the city by 42% which was followed the next year by another drop of 40%.... As of today in Kennesaw violent crime rates are about 85% below national and state rates. Property crime rates are from 46-56% below national and state rates. Kennesaw crime statistics reported that both property and violent crimes had decreased since the law passed.....why you ask? Well it's simple really.... because the town is no longer a soft target!
On the other side of the coin, the city of Chicago in 1982 instituted a ban on handguns. This ban barred civilians from possessing handguns except for those registered with the city government prior to enactment of the law. The law also specified that such handguns had to be re-registered every two years or owners would forfeit their right to possess them. In 1994, the law was amended to require annual re-registration. In the wake of Chicago's handgun ban, at least five suburbs surrounding Chicago instituted similar handgun bans.
Since the outset of the Chicago handgun ban, the percentage of Chicago murders committed with handguns has averaged about 40% higher than it was before the law took effect!!!!!
On October 1, 1987, Florida's right-to-carry law became effective...Since the outset of the Florida right-to-carry law, the Florida murder rate has averaged 36% lower than it was before the law took effect!!!!
In January 1996, Texas's right-to-carry law became effective....Since the outset of the Texas right-to-carry law, the Texas murder rate has averaged 30% lower than it was before the law took effect!!!
You do the Math!!!
As History teaches us... the Road to hell is paved with good intentions....
Werner Best (who would later be a Gestapo official) penned a law in 1931 that required the registration of all firearms in Germany in the name of "Public Safety".
In 1933 the Nazi's seized power in Germany and used the registration records to track down and confiscate those guns.....and we all know how that turned out don't we!
Read your history books:
Soviet Union 1929
The Ottoman Empire 1911
Germany 1938
China 1935
Cambodia 1956
In all, more than 56 million people around the world have been murdered as a result of gun control laws imposed by rulers and despots who knew that the only way they could continue to brutalize their own people and stay in power was by disarming them.
And now left-wing pols, politicians, academics and pundits want our leaders to have the same ability to rule unopposed and unafraid of reprisal.
Our forefathers did not arm the American people for the purpose of hunting, but rather to protect themselves from those who were doing the hunting!
Anyone truly interested in preventing mass murder should not be a supporter of gun control.
And now left-wing pols, politicians, academics and pundits want our leaders to have the same ability to rule unopposed and unafraid of reprisal.
Our forefathers did not arm the American people for the purpose of hunting, but rather to protect themselves from those who were doing the hunting!
Anyone truly interested in preventing mass murder should not be a supporter of gun control.
I understand the far left is well meaning in their intentions in advocating severe restrictions, bans, and registration...but they are going after law abiding citizens in the process. When it is a criminal and fringe element they need to be addressing. There are families in America today that rely on guns to put food on their tables!!! Guns are nothing more than tools, much like a hammer, a saw, or an axe....it is narrow minded and moronic to blame the gun and not the person behind it who actually pulled the trigger.
in 2011... 323 people were killed in the U.S. by sporting rifles......and yet 496 died at the receiving end of a Hammer bought at the local hardware store
in 2011... 323 people were killed in the U.S. by sporting rifles......and yet 195,000 died on the operating table due to medical malpractice which makes hospitals 603% more deadly than a hunting rifle!
The world's largest army...
are America's hunters and private gun owners!
A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin ..
Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.
More men under arms than in Iran ..
More than in France and Germany combined.
These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
The point?
America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.
Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.
Let me add another dimension to the argument one that hits America in the pocketbook
21.8 million Americans hunt each year in this country and they add over 1 Billion dollars to the economy of the U.S. every year...money that is used to pay for government jobs, and to keep national parks open and operating...
are anti Gun supporters going to make up the difference out of their own pockets? I seriously doubt it...
I could go on and on and on
the point of my letter?
I realize you're upset about the people that died in the theatre while watching your movie, that incident and all like it are tragic and pointless.
But I'm reminded of a bumper sticker that used to be affixed to my grandfathers car that read:
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!
Pass all the laws you want....but any intelligent person should know that criminals and crazy people don't give a rat's ass about the laws of society either state or federal, and do not fear the consequences of breaking said laws...they will always find a way to get their hands on a firearm and kill!
In the U.K. since the Gun ban that was enacted in 1997... someone is stabbed every 4 seconds in the U.K resulting in over 4,000 deaths a year at the end of a knife!
Violence has been a part of the human race since we crawled up out of the slime...take one weapon away somebody will find or invent another!
Just know that as of today you have been Banned from my household along with:
My hard earned American Dollars will be spent on entertainers that understand what it truly means to be an American!
I think Jefferson said it best...
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
– Thomas Jefferson
or maybe it was Larry the Cable Guy:
“If guns kill people then pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk and spoons made Rosie O’Donnell fat.”
or
“Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.”
and last but not least
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
– George Orwell
Later...
