I served in the United States Army and fired an M-1 rifle
with a rating of “expert.” I have never been a hunter, and I never owned a
firearm in my life until a few months ago, when I purchased a shotgun. It is
for protecting our home and property only. This is what we are authorized to do
by the Constitution of the United States, and this is why the vast majority of
gun-holders have guns.
I was taught by my father to never point a gun at anyone
unless you planned to kill them. This was to implant it forever in my mind
that, even if it “wasn’t loaded,” you don’t point it at another person. That is
how a lot of accidents have happened, thinking it wasn’t loaded when it
actually was.
For this country to remain safe from those who would want to
war against us, it is necessary for people to be armed. It is also a very good
deterrent to anyone who might break into your home.
If our government is able to accomplish what many of our
leaders are calling for, we will soon be at the mercy of any enemy who wishes
to come to our shores and attack us.
I am speaking of all the proposals for “gun control.”
We must let our representatives in Congress know our desires
concerning this issue or the law abiding citizens will soon be without a means
to defend themselves and their families, while corrupt individuals will
still have their arms and can rob us or kill us, or take over this country.
Without arms, will be set up to become a police state, with
those presently in office in charge of what the police do and we will be at
their mercy (of which they will have very little).
China wants the U.S. to take all firearms away from
individual citizens. Why would they want that? Is that so, whenever they decide
to take over our country, they could walk in without firing a shot?
Those who came from Europe to settle the “new world” were
all armed. They knew how important it was to be able to defend themselves and their
new country from aggression. What is different about today?
You might think that there are more people wrongly using
firearms now than in previous years, but the fact is, if you look at the number
of people killed each year by the violence of others, it hasn’t increase all
that much. We do have more mass killings than before, but those are people who
are either crazy or on drugs, or just want to go out in ablaze of “glory.” They
are not your average law-abiding citizens.
I am for steps to protect all people from atrocities,
but I am not for disarming the entire population so that we have no defense. We
can’t rely on our Police or service men, as effective as they are, because they could be
out-numbered by enemies attacking our country.
Keeping the people armed makes those who would do us harm
afraid to attack us. Ronald Reagan built up our armed forces and missile
defense as a means to deter aggression from our enemies, and it worked.
I love living in peace. We have long enjoyed peace on these
shores to a great degree, but in a brief amount of time, that could be taken
away, and we must be prepared to defend ourselves against it.
Those in Washington who are trying to take our guns are the
same crowd that said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” They have wanted,
for a long time, to disarm the population, so they are trying to seize upon the
most recent killing-spree as a means to pass the legislation to do away with
our means of defense.
Jay
