Posted: 2/18/2013 11:04:22 AM EDT
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I know I am a little late to the party here but life has been busy lately....in a good way. But I am going to put together an email to start sending to our elected officials and am looking for some examples. I don't want a form email because I think it is better if they are not all the same. So I am just searching around for some good examples that will help me craft my own since I don't do a lot of this formal, nice, respectable citizen petitioning my elected represenatives sort a thing.
If any one has anything they would like to share please do. Thx |
| I write a new email everyday, it doesn't have to be anything special just tell them what you think. Most of mine are something along the lines of "Minnesota doesn't need any new gun laws", or "criminals don't obey gun laws" , "takeing away the second amendment will turn me into a one issue voter" and so on. I just write a few lines about one of those things and then put my name on it and send it. They don't actually read them for the most part but they will keep a tally of how many are for or against, so quanitity is better then telling long in depth stories. Stay away from saying anything threatening obviously, other then treatening not to vote for them. I always make it clear that if they vote for gun restrictions on law abiding citizens that I would vote for ANYONE else just to not give them my vote. An actual written letter goes a lot farther then an email too so if you have some spare time while you are sitting around watching tv with the family at night dig out some stamps and send some snail mail although it might be a little too close to the wire for that now. |
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Here is some of what I used.. I C/P it from someone else.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your service to Minnesota and the USA. The last four words of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States are, "shall not be infringed". These words refer to the "right of the people to keep and bear arms". I write to tell you as your constituent, respectfully, that I do not support, and do not condone an unconstitutional usurpation of my human right, and my fellow American’s right, to keep and bear arms. The protected right of arms ownership is not about hunting or sporting purposes. The right to keep and bear arms is an individual human right of all persons to keep them free. Free from illegitimate coercive force from any source. I want you to know that this lifelong Minnesotan does not support any new Assault Weapons Ban. Please vote no on any new proposal to restrain, or remove the right to own Semi-Automatic Modern Sporting Rifles and their accessories. Vote no on a renewed Assault Weapons Ban. Kind regards, Firemedic5586 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HIS RESPONSE Firemedic5586 - Number one: Thank you for your personal comments on gun legislation that’s been introduced at the Capitol in the wake of recent violence. I do appreciate it. As chair of the Health and Human Service Budget committee, my main focus is the identification of mental health problems – at the earliest stage – to prevent the downward spiral that leads to the senseless killing of school kids and co-workers and completely innocent people in theaters and on the street. You want it to stop. I want it to stop. This is my starting point. I’m a life-long gun owner and hunter. My family and friends and neighbors are all gun owners and hunters. I understand and share the depth of passion surrounding gun ownership and the importance of safe guarding our constitutional rights. We’ve got a legislative process – and I think it works. Good ideas and bad ideas get introduced. We hold hearings, we take testimony from the public, we listen. We take phone calls and letters and e-mails. We make changes and fix things up - or we toss them out. That’s the process we’re in now and I trust it to work. I don’t serve on the committees these bills are likely to be referred to, but I truly believe that most of the ideas you are troubled by will not make it out of committee. You are doing your part in the process by making your views known, and I appreciate it. Together we’ll find a real solution that works. Best and thank you for your service, Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I JUST SENT THIS BACK TO HIM. Senator Lourey, Thank-you for your prompt response to my e-mail. I hear hunting used very often in conjunction with the Second Amendment. Like yourself and your family, myself and my family are also hunters. However; the Second Amendment, (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed) does not have the word "hunting" mentioned in it at all, nor is there a mention of “Sporting Purpose”. I have been hearing the word compromise used a lot lately regarding the Second Amendment. How would the civil rights movement have gone if Rosa Parks would have compromised by sitting in the middle of the bus? When civil rights are taken away in the name of compromise, in this case the Second Amendment, under the guise of “Common Sense Gun Laws” it is a right forever lost. With a precedence being set, more rights will be taken in the future, until there is nothing left for the taking. These are the rights given to us by our Creator, not by our Government. Taking away law abiding members of Minnesota’s Second Amendment rights will have profound and unintended consequences for the Law Enforcement community of our great state. Senator, you may or may not be aware that there are currently many manufacturers and distributors in the firearm industry that have implemented a company policy of , “We will only sell to Law Enforcement personal or their agencies what the general public is allowed to have”. A, what’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander approach. This includes everything from firearms to magazines. The list of companies doing this is growing on a daily basis; to the point it appears to be having a snowballing effect. In other words, by taking away the rights of Minnesotans, the tools that law enforcement has at their disposal will also be limited or all together disappear. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”. Kind Regards, Firemedic5586 |
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