Are gun owners actively contacting lawmakers?
Dear Editor:
Hope I’m wrong but it appears that the anti-gun types are becoming more energized, while what’s with the pro-gun/gun rights side seems uncertain. Might I be missing salient points regarding the above? The question, it seems, is as follows: To what extent are readers of GunMag in particular and gun owners in general staying in contact with government officials, elected representatives and such, at local, state and federal levels? Old saying, familiar to all, runs as follows: The Squeaking Hinge Gets Oiled.
On another point, last issue included an article dealing with one of the longest running floating crap games I can think of, that being the sordid antics of the NYPD’s Pistol License Bureau, which has long been, no remains, a prime candidate for RICO Act investigation and prosecution. Strange isn’t it, how despite a pile of evidence that would put the Rocky Mountains to shame, nothing meaningful ever happens.
Alan Schultz
Allison Park, PA
Plan for the worst in worst case scenario
Dear Editor:
The “worst case scenario” for a school shooting would be that a person is able to obtain a weapon in a school surrounded by walls and barbed wire and metal detectors such that a weapon is created in the school or is maybe launched over the wall or dropped off by a drone and NO ONE in the school is armed and able to protect the children.
The Second Amendment exists to STOP a “worst case scenario” where there is a total breakdown of government and the PEOPLE must rise up and stop a tyrannical domestic government bent on enslaving the sovereign PEOPLE.
Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Logic demands this.
Don Schwarz
Stoughton, Ma.
Corporate intervention new to anti-gun cause
Dear Editor:
Recently I have noticed that CVS stores in Arizona have stopped the sale of hunting, gun and fishing magazines of all sorts, replacing them with everything from Woman’s Day type publications to male body-building magazines of all types.
Pharmacists have told me of receiving many complaints from customers on the matter but they go unanswered from the corporate headquarters in Rhode Island.
What is happening by their own admission is that parts of corporate America and the banking industry have now said that if Congress doesn’t take action against the Second Amendment that they—corporate America—will intervene and do the legislative job beginning with censorship and whatever else corporate America can do to usurp the powers of Congress and state legislatures whom they accuse of failing to legislate the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by taking the law into their own dictatorial hands.
Corporate and financial intervention is the latest wrinkle in the gun confiscation movement and a “next step” led by Soros and Bloomberg and their big money bullies against law-abiding gun owners and the Second Amendment.
God bless America.
Harold H. Talanian
Flagstaff, AZ
Guns protect politicians, why not school children?
Dear Editor:
It is obvious that Gov. Andrew Cuomo hates guns and gun owners. He rammed through the SAFE Act with a Message of Necessity in order to get it passed without any input from law enforcement, mental health experts and citizens. It was filled with flaws and allows the confiscation of guns without due process by false reports and opinions of unqualified persons.
Now, he wants to add teachers to the list of people who have the power to have guns confiscated. If they have an opinion that a student presents a danger of being violent, they can contact a judge who can order the guns confiscated form the student’s home. The logical procedure would be to have the student evaluated by a mental health professional before any action is taken against the family.
The SAFE Act should be repealed and school safety should be implemented by having a school resource professional who is armed and ready to protect the occupants. The politicians and bureaucrats have armed guards in their buildings. Why do they think their lives are more valuable and worth protecting than school children?
The solution is solved by focusing on people who are prone to violence not on creative ways to confiscate guns.
Sincerely,
Budd Schroeder
Chairman Emeritus, SCOPE
Lancaster, NY
