Richard,
Reguards,
Of particular interest to me today, I am in receipt of a letter from Rudy Giuliani requesting my support of his campaign in New York. My first impression was negative, but on further consideration, I think that I will send him a more worthy sum. With all due respect for the first family, my gut feeling is to cough, expectorate, blow my nose, take a purgative, steam bath, some mud baths, and hope to get this political cancer out of my system!!
Eating wheat grass, and only one huge steak per week in hope of the purge.
Our society in this country in the beginning was dominated by strong people by necessity. Many had been oppressed in their former countries of residence. They sought fredom from physical and political oppression. Some were religious refugees. They sought religious freedom.
They collectively fought for and established a viable country and society.
They established the laws and moral basis of this country.
In my mind, they served themselves well, and the country prospered and survived, even in the face of great opposition from the standing powers of the day.
In those days, each free man generally carried the means for his own protection and survival in the form of a primative weapon which served to protect his family, provide sustiance on occasion, and on other occasions to attempt to kill and defeat those who wished to take from him his freedom or his family.
Responsible citizens carrying guns!
No person shot and killed another for his own benefit without the ire and the retribution of all other available gun carying citizens.
Common ethic and law.
Curent law in all states refuses the right to own, possess, or have access to a weapon such as a firearm by a convicted felon. Yet almost without exception, their access is greater than the average citizen, even though he might possess an authorization from a particular state to "carry concealed".
Clearly, there is no effort to increase the penalty upon the criminal, for there are more in the system than the system can handle. The effort is to avert the attention from the systematic failure to enforce exhisting laws to a political solution based on more laws.
I am not saying that the NRA has said it right, but for me, I am just quite tired of the "Clinton Ethic".
Jack |
