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Dear Senator Kline,
I am an Endowment member of the NRA and I do share you concern about bad guys getting guns.
However...
Please direct your energies and efforts directly at bad guys in a way that will be successful!
I would prefer to do it in a way that will work better than penalizing law abiding citizens, which for some odd reason truly escapes many elected officials such as yourself.
Gang members get their guns illegally by straw purchases, thefts, or trading guns for drugs The guys who do this are selling the guns to guys who cannot buy guns because they are convicted felons.
What they are doing is already illegal!
Start charging with the laws that are already available, and quit wasting your time and our money with more pointless legislation.
My questions are very simple for you to answer as they relate to your latest attempt at banning certain firearms. The answers are so logical, and based on fact that I, a lowly citizen such as myself can even answer them.
1. California has the strictest, and layered gun laws in the nation. Have they stopped bad guys from obtaining banned guns? No.
2. Have the plethora of gun laws stopped or reduced gun crime? No.
3. Have present gun laws prevented gun crime? No.
4. Will your new ban on certain firearms stop, and/or reduce gun crime? No.
5. Will your new ban on certain firearms have a negative effect on the State of Washington's economy? Yes! There are dozens of firearms businesses within the state that not only are related to these guns you wish to ban, there are in fact manufacturers of such firearms in Washington State. Therefore, your ban will not only eliminate thriving businesses from Washington State thus destroying hundreds of family wage jobs, your firearms bans will remove millions of dollars from Washington State's tax base. Is this what you want to be doing to your constituents in these tough economic times?
6. Will law-abiding citizens be burdened once again with additional firearms laws, bans, and their related costs that do nothing to stop bad guys from getting guns if they so choose? Yes.
You see your predictable knee jerk response to the latest tragedies in our communities will not stop bad guys from doing bad things with guns if they so choose.
Furthermore, your lack of knowledge about these firearms you wish to ban is glaring, and in fact embarrassing. That alone should give you pause as to what you are attempting to do, and how you are going about doing it.
Why in the world would you want to burden the majority of our citizens with more laws and gun bans that will do nothing, nothing at all to stop bad guys from getting guns?
Start charging the perpetrators, convicting them and sending them away for longer periods of time.
I added my own spin to it. Great letter
RE SB 6396
Senator Kline,
Due to your sponsorship of this bill and the illegal house to house searches by the County Sheriff to ensure "compliance" with this un-American and Neo-Marxist bill, I regret to inform you that you no longer have my support and I will be contributing $8,000 to your opponent campaign in the next election.
There will be heavy resistance to home searches of firearm collections and/or registration.
Study your history and see what happens when people no longer have arms to protect themselves. Poland is a good example. Watch the executions and rapes of women and children once the Jews could no longer protect themselves after the gun registration began and confiscation occurred before the round-ups.
If you think the US is "exempt" from the kind of atrocities the Nazis perpetrated and we as humans are above that, you are a fool.
Look at hurricane Katrina where people had their personal firearms taken only to be robbed and murdered by criminals who kept theirs.
Please direct your energies and efforts directly at bad guys in a way that will be successful!
I would prefer to do it in a way that will work better than penalizing law abiding citizens, which for some odd reason truly escapes many elected officials such as yourself.
Gang members get their guns illegally by straw purchases, thefts, or trading guns for drugs The guys who do this are selling the guns to guys who cannot buy guns because they are convicted felons.
What they are doing is already illegal!
Start charging with the laws that are already available, and quit wasting your time and our money with more pointless legislation.
My questions are very simple for you to answer as they relate to your latest attempt at banning certain firearms. The answers are so logical, and based on fact that I, a lowly citizen such as myself can even answer them.
1. California has the strictest, and layered gun laws in the nation. Have they stopped bad guys from obtaining banned guns? No.
2. Have the plethora of gun laws stopped or reduced gun crime? No.
3. Have present gun laws prevented gun crime? No.
4. Will your new ban on certain firearms stop, and/or reduce gun crime? No.
5. Will your new ban on certain firearms have a negative effect on the State of Washington's economy? Yes!
There are dozens of firearms businesses within the state that not only are related to these guns you wish to ban, there are in fact manufacturers of such firearms in Washington State. Therefore, your ban will not only eliminate thriving businesses from Washington State thus destroying hundreds of family wage jobs, your firearms bans will remove millions of dollars from Washington State's tax base.
Is this what you want to be doing to your constituents in these tough economic times?
6. Will law-abiding citizens be burdened once again with additional firearms laws, bans, and their related costs that do nothing to stop bad guys from getting guns if they so choose? Yes.
You see your predictable knee jerk response to the latest tragedies in our communities will not stop bad guys from doing bad things with guns if they so choose.
Furthermore, your lack of knowledge about these firearms you wish to ban is glaring, and in fact embarrassing. That alone should give you pause as to what you are attempting to do, and how you are going about doing it.
Why in the world would you want to burden the majority of our citizens with more laws and gun bans that will do nothing, nothing at all to stop bad guys from getting guns?
Start charging the perpetrators, convicting them and sending them away for longer periods of time!!
Oh, and thanks for creating a new group of criminals out of law abiding citizens because we will not surrender our arms under any circumstances to you or any other tyrants that spit in the face of liberty and our individual God given rights.