I sent this to everyone I know.

[XDM45]

I just wrote this email and sent it to everyone I know. Feel free to take it and modify it, ignore it, do with it as you will. I'm posting it here to merely share what I wrote in the hopes that inspires someone to write everyone they know too if they have not done so already.

All,

We're all appalled by the recent shootings at Aurora, Sandy Brook and other places; but this is the work of madmen; and we need to focus on better background checks and address the mental health issues in this country. James Holmes was well-known to have mental issues, yet he was not put into proper medical care by those doctors and psychiatrists who knew of his diagnosed issues. Nathan Gale, a shooter in a nightclub on December 8th, 2004, who killed the guitarist of a Damageplan was booted from the US Marines for mental issues as well. Coincidentally, in 1980 on that same date, John Lennon was also murdered by someone with mental issues as well. The shooter at Sandy Brook was known to have issues and stole his mother's legally-owned guns, and there are many more cases as well involving mentally stable people with insane actions taking lives of innocent people.

Lest we forget, Timothy McVeigh used a rental truck, fertilizer, and he killed 19 children. You can still buy the fertilizer without control and rent a truck. Guns are merely a tool, and any material thing can be used to kill. It's the person that is the problem, not the tool. Unlike the media, I don't want to focus on the tool of the gun; I want to focus on our rights.

Regardless of where you are on guns and our gun rights (which are guaranteed in the 2nd amendment of the Constitution), there are possible changes coming which could affect that amendment and make it powerless. If that can happen to the 2nd, it can happen to the 1st, 4th, 5th, and every other amendment in the Constitution until that document is as valuable and powerless as the next square of toilet paper. It's time to draw a line in the sand and make a stand against further decimation of our rights, our freedoms, our constitution and our country.

I realize not everyone likes guns or owns them; but for right now at least, we all have, like and own our freedom which has been hard won and can easily be lost. While my own father didn't like guns and never saw combat, he did go into WWII like many of that era did because they knew what was on the line - our freedom. During that war, the Emperor of Japan said he wouldn't invade mainland USA because of the armaments of it's citizenry. He may have lost the war, but he was no fool either. An invasion of America would result in a slaughterhouse for any nation that tried. I would defend my family, my life and my rights to it. I hope you would do the same for yours. Right now we all have that ability and that freedom, but soon we may not.

We must protect our freedoms, which have been getting eroded every year through different means and actions by corporations and government. The 2nd amendment protects the other amendments. It allows us the ability to defend ourselves, our families, and our freedoms against any criminal or tyrannical group, person, organizational or government. I encourage you to watch these videos below and to contact your senators, congress people, government on all levels to make sure that our rights as stated in the 2A "shall not be infringed".

We do not need gun registration, high-cacpacity magazine bans or further legislation. We need our current gun laws enforced, we need the broken NICS background check system improved upon, and we need to address the mental health issues in this country.

This sums it up pretty well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR3t7j2tUec&list=UU193r5YXcpQJV34N99ZbhzQ&index=1 and as a complimentary video, this one is worth a look as well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCefEixHqaQ but do watch the first one for sure.

There's a lot of misinformation spewed out there by the mass media and anti-gun groups, so I won't counter it here, but if you want to discuss it, please contact me.

For the record, I am not pro-gun; I am pro-freedom. Guns are merely a tool by which I may maintain my freedom.

[LePetomane]

XDM45, Nicely thought out. Thanks for the post.

[BU1]

It's Sandy Hook, not Sandy Brook.

[XDM45]

It's Sandy Hook, not Sandy Brook.

Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

[XDM45]

XDM45, Nicely thought out. Thanks for the post.

You're most welcome.

[Heffay]

It's Sandy Hook, not Sandy Brook.

Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

He's trying to help you.

[XDM45]

It's Sandy Hook, not Sandy Brook.

Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

He's trying to help you.

No, he's being a wording nazi. Once again........Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

[Heffay]

No, he's being a wording nazi. Once again........Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

He's attempting to polish your message so you don't look so ignorant. Then again, it already went out without proofreading, so.... yeah. I guess you have a point.

[MNRZR]

No, he's being a wording nazi. Once again........Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

He's attempting to polish your message so you don't look so ignorant. Then again, it already went out without proofreading, so.... yeah. I guess you have a point.

This may be the only time I agree with you, Heffay.

[XDM45]

No, he's being a wording nazi. Once again........Close enough. Don't focus on the typo and ignore the message.

He's attempting to polish your message so you don't look so ignorant. Then again, it already went out without proofreading, so.... yeah. I guess you have a point.

This may be the only time I agree with you, Heffay.

I'll agree with Heffay (rare) that it's too late since it's gone out already, and that yes, it should have been proofread, but the important thing is the message. If I had said "the Sandy school shooting"
people would still know what I meant. Is exactness and correctness important? Yes, of course, especially in the case where one is doing scholarly work or legal matters, but in this case, it's more about the message than the "correctness" of it. The message is more important than a dang typo is.

I hear people all day long drop the "-ly" off of words and other mistakes in the English language. Now I can either spend my time fussing over that, circling writings in red, going around correcting people, or I can live life. There are tons of grammar nazis on message boards all over the world, so the post doesn't surprise me, especially on here. Some of you guys start frothing at the mouth over the fact I openly carry, now typos, anything to get a jab in I suppose. People can say "oh I'm not saying it to be a grammar nazi, no, I do it because I care..." but we both know it's b.s.

I've seen things on here just as bad, but I let them go. You should really give that a try sometime vs. getting your undies in a bunch of shyte that just does not effen matter man.

Now I'm done addressing this issue about my typo because I don't want to have this thread devolve into something where it's more about me or my typo than the message I posted this thread about. This is my last and final comment on the matter of the typo. I've chosen to move on. What anyone else does is up to them.

[jshuberg]

As you may know, the President announced today a gun control agenda that he will be pushing in the upcoming weeks and months. It includes a ban on magazines that hold over 10 rounds, certain semi-automatic rifles and pistols deemed to be "assault weapons", and apparently 19 executive orders that he will make without congressional approval or oversight. Below are my opinions on this:

The Supreme Court in US v Heller 2008 examined the wording and meaning of the 2nd Amendment. One of the conclusions that they arrived at was that the term 'arms' includes all firearms except for those that are commonly used by criminals for crime, and not used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes (a sawed off shotgun being the example used). The types of firearms that they are seeking to ban are in fact the most popular firearms that are currently sold, and have been for many years. They are used in hunting, home defense, competition, and sport shooting. The bans being discussed will in fact effect a significant percentage of the firearms currently owned by law-abiding people.

We as Americans should never be forced to surrender our rights, freedoms, or liberties because an occasional psychopath goes on a rampage. The unfortunate reality is that there will always be psychopaths, and they will always find a way to carry out the evil in their hearts. While we do as a society need to try to minimize these occurrences, stripping law-abiding citizens who do not commit murder of their constitutionally protected rights crosses the line of what is reasonable.

Regardless of whether you own a firearm or not, this is an issue of the government declaring that a constitutionally protected right has become too dangerous for the average citizen to be allowed to exercise. And they must therefor infringe on that right for our own good. This is an incredibly arrogant and dangerous position for a government to take.

Please contact your representatives and let them know that you OPPOSE any additional laws that would restrict law-abiding citizens from being able to fully exercise their constitutionally protected rights. The Ruger firearms manufacturing company has setup a web site where all you have to do is provide your contact information once, and they will send a letter of opposition to each of your federal and state representatives. If you wish to contact them directly, all the better! But however you do it, please contact them and let them know that infringing the rights of the people is *not* a viable option to the problem of mental illness and crime.

http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/


Thanks much for reading this, and please pass it along to anyone and everyone who also believes in the rights of the people.

-JShuberg

[Thunder71]

... and it's 23, not 19.

[jshuberg]

Really?!! That's just super.....

[Heffay]

The 23 EOs really aren't that bad. Some of them are quite good actually. There is nothing in there that even remotely infringes.

[XDM45]

The 23 EOs really aren't that bad. Some of them are quite good actually. There is nothing in there that even remotely infringes.

All laws infringe on freedom.

We have laws because most humans cannot self-govern.