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Citizens with firearms are demonized
Dr. Jeff O’Connor got just one thing right in his anti-gun, NRA-basing diatribe (“This is our lane!,” Nov. 28). He wrote, “Our Constitution provides for an armed citizenry to defend themselves against those who would use the tyranny of the state to suppress our rights as citizens.” That salient fact seems to be lost on the subversive anti-gun lobby’s cadre of “useful idiots,” Shawn Vestal to Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
A powerful, billionaire-financed, Democratic Party/media-backed gun confiscation cartel plans to totally disarm the American people with incremental gun control. The latest “increment” is I-1639, a repressive, draconian anti-gun bill that targets only the law-abiding. Its purpose is to harass, impede, restrict, threaten, deter and obstruct honest people.
Another irrefutable truth is that millions of Americans use firearms, including the demonized AR-15, safely and responsibly. And Dr. Gary Kleck, a criminologist, reports that armed Americans thwart over one million crimes every year.
In 1692, Andrew Fletcher wrote, “Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from slave.”
Curt Stone
Dayton