My letter from the White House

[model70hunter]

I generally read Fox news but since the Top execs office leaned on journalists recently about the negative tone in their articles, I've noticed that CNN has been leaning away from the far left, just a little. Perhaps journalists smell trouble brewing with the 1st amendment.

I apply the grain of salt to most of their news, but today I saw this one. A ladies letter to the Pres. Good article.

A mother's journey to bearing arms - CNN.com

 

[Kinman]

Who has ever gotten satisfaction from a politician? I'm sure there are good ones, I can remember a few good senators and representatives but for the most part they are all hooked up with the money train, nowadays they finish a few years as a senator or representative and then go on to becoming a *******ed lobbiest, it should be against the law for any ex senator or representative or general, admiral, etc. becoming a lobbiest, thats where the problem is...the money train.
All the members of the senate and house of representatives should have wear their sponsors on their coats like NASCAR drivers do. Their largest sponsors would get credit for the back of their jacket like DUPONT, or STANDARD OIL, or EXXON...wear those colors proudly like the NASCAR boys do after all that would let us all know where their true interests lie.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

President Ronald Reagan said it right " We are from the Govt. & here to help you". I'm scared to death of our present Govt.

 

[Cyrano]

I got the same BS in response to my entering the S&W program. I didn't bother to read it all and deleted it.

 

[Col. Plink]

I am still upset over what the government did at Ruby Ridge.

I recalled vaguely what happened at Ruby Ridge, and maybe a month ago Glenn Beck recapped the event during his morning show. It was deeply disturbing to hear the details and further reinforced my belief that no longer can anyone say "That could never happen here." in regard to almost anything.

 

[yaktamer]

"We should get tougher on those who buy guns with the purpose of selling them to criminals, and we should impose serious punishments on anyone who helps them do this."

Racking my brain trying to think of somebody who's been in the news in the last year or two for encouraging transfers to straw buyers....Oh, I've got it!

 

[mc5aw]

Another ironic gem:

"From Aurora to Newtown to the streets of Chicago, we have seen the devastating effects gun violence has on our American family."

The streets of Chicago, statistically some of the deadliest in the nation ... currently governed by a mayor whose previous job was where and with whom? And the former home base of which high ranking politicians?

The hypocrisy of such quotations is as laughable as it is maddening, and further proof that there is no honesty to anything the anti crowd offers.

The other element that I find particularly disgraceful is the generic "guilt by association" rhetoric. The aforementioned gun violence was not perpetrated by any responsible & law abiding firearms owners, yet we are still lumped together in a gratuitous mishmash of vilified gun culture fanatics. I have never contributed to the "devastating effects gun violence has on our American family", nor has anyone I personally know. Thus, we are not part of the "problem", nor should we be part of the proposed "solution" implemented to solve the perceived "problem".

I'm glad I haven't received my own copy of this dreck.

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

Took him long enough to respond. It's been almost five months. I can't stand hearing or watching him on television and usually have to switch channels whenever a state of the union address comes on. And now when I read this letter, I couldn't even get through it, as the same feelings of disgust came over me.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

If you will notice, he uses the word "commonsense" in place of common sense. I now understand that when he says it, it has a different meaning than the real term.

 

[photocosmo]

Well, let's see... "they" got your names, addresses, SS#s (taxes ya know!), probably got a pretty good idea about those "arsenals" y'all are building too!
I guess I just have more faith in this great country -

WAIT!

- did you hear that? Is someone at the door?!?

 

[steamloco76]

Well, let's see... "they" got your names, addresses, SS#s (taxes ya know!), probably got a pretty good idea about those "arsenals" y'all are building too!
I guess I just have more faith in this great country -

WAIT!

- did you hear that? Is someone at the door?!?

No, but there is a drone circling my house! My dogs are going nuts.

Fear the government that fears your guns.

 

[Engieman]

You guys must be special....I did the SW distribution and only received ONE reply from that entire list. Form letter from one Senator (sided w/ the Pres.), none of the others on the list bothered to even send an acknowledgement. Bummer, with all our tax dollars being spent, I figured it would be high-quality paper...and I was looking forward to using it as patch material for the Blackpowder summer season....need to write more letters

 

[Lost Lake]

I think we need to stress how guns are useful. The antis can't envision why we think we need guns. They say guns are only used for killing.

Some guys say they like to target shoot or just like the excitement of owning an AR or exotic gun.

I tell people guns are useful to kill, and that is why I carry a handgun when I go out, and I fully depend on a home AR and several other large capacity weapons for my personal defense.

I may need to protect my family some day. What the attackers look like I do not know. It could be druggies, it could be terrorists, it could be neighborhood punks after the power grid shuts down for a couple weeks. I don't know what the future brings, but I want to be prepared to handle what I can.

I really do believe if 100 million Americans were armed with dependable weapons we would be a safer nation.

 

[jaykellogg]

I would like to point something out. During the first two years of our president's first term he could have passed anything he wanted to. It was after this time that the Tuscon shootings, the Aurora CO shootings and the Sandy Hook shooting occurred. If he was serious about saving "just one life", why did he blow the chance?