Letter to congress re: 2nd amendment

Sign On to the H.R. 45 MixedInk Group Letter
05 10 2009, 21:50

A first of it's kind web based initiative to send a message to congress that we will not give up our 2nd Amendment rights.

It's not a petition, it's a letter and it will go to every member of congress.
HT Via cjnorris1 on Twitter.

"The following is a group letter, not a petition. It was written collaboratively by 454 individuals over the course of six weeks. This is the result of a first-of-its-kind experiment in modernizing constituent communication with Congress run by the nonpartisan website GovTrack.us using the letter writing tool MixedInk.com. For more about the letter writing process, see below the letter."

Some text from the letter:

WE are tired of our rights being denigrated and destroyed.
Our vote for any such bill is NO! Further, any politician who votes for this bill or any bill of this type will be noted, and voted against when they come up for re-election.

There are currently over 20,000 existing gun laws on the books and most of them do nothing to stop or curtail criminals. Reducing restictions to lawful gun ownership, however, have proven to do just that. Statistics are clear. Where ever lawful gun ownership flourishes, crime rates, by whatever measure, are reduced. In states with lawful handgun carry laws, crime rates are lower. The rate of crimes committed by lawful owners of firearms is a very small percentage of the overall rate of crimes committed with firearms and those numbers are undeniable. The federally required NICS is an excellent tool in determining the eligibility of an individual to legally purchase a handgun or rifle. In the city of Kennesaw, Ga., just outside of Atlanta, it is required by law that every home have a gun. After that law was passed in 1982, the crime rate immediately dropped by 89% and has remained among the lowest in the state ever since. Instance after instance shows that high legal gun ownership relates to lower crime, and places that make it hard to own guns or ban them altogether relates to a higher crime rate. Look at many of the larger, supposedly progressive cities and states in the northeastern U.S. Many have some of the highest rates of gun crime there are simply because the criminals know there is little chance of being confronted by a law abiding gun owner.

Stop criminalizing the lawful and law abiding gun owners. The studies by Department of Justice themselves show that these such weapons are used in a statistically insignificant portion of crime. And when they are used, their use would not have been prevented by the legislation.

Do it, do it now!
Here's the link to the actual letter: http://www.govtrack.us/special/hr45mixedink.xpd