MR. BRENNEKE
07-26-2003, 14:58
They have considered forcing gun owners in NYC to pay a $250,000 liability insurance. Which I have no intention of complying with if it ever passed. The buck stops here for me. :angry:
Suffer: a: to submit to or be forced to endure b: to feel keenly: labor under~thirst
c: undergo, experience death, pain, distress d: to sustain loss or damage.
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
Dear representative,
There is purpose in defining the word above. Something that will come to play in the latter part of my letter. My name is T. B. I was born in NYC in 1964. The eldest son of four boys. My parents first came here from the island of Puerto Rico sometime in the late forties.
My generation of brooklynites were the last to see games such as stickball, buck-buck, hot peas and butter, king's and such. You see, we lived on the streets. Before the video game era took hold, we sought our friends. Real people from every race and creed, to play with and pass the time of day. We were good kids and although times were tough, the memories are sweet.
I can remember in my experience as a child owning a few toy guns. They were great. They looked authentic. My favorite was a lever-action shotgun I had that actually popped and smoked afterward. They played a large part in my formative years. They were my companions on every adventure, and comfort when dealing with the monsters that lived in my closet. What is most important however, when I reflect on this time in my life, is that I never had to worry about being killed because of it. The question here is not the problem of children playing with toy guns, but those who would kill children who play with toy guns. Which leads me to some further points.
Gun owners and now many non-gunowners alike have realized that not only is gun control a failure, but by design is meant to disarm and infringe upon the civil rights of the law-abiding. It is a malignancy in light of the mounting facts that will continue to support the concerns of many millions in this country, from all walks of life, that the ultimate goal of gun control advocates is to disarm Americans. The question I ask myself daily is when does a citizen stop being "law-abiding" when those laws become unjust? Unconstitutional. Corrupt. And what does he do about it when the system in place is failing the people?
Your argument on the costs to the city relating to gun violence becomes muted when you consider the cost, financial and emotional, to the families of the victims that you work so diligently to disarm.
" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Those who renounce the use of their arms against a corrupt political machine are the very people who make that violence inevitable. Passivity only encourages the machine to expand "
- John F. Kennedy
When I hear of further burdens such as " liability insurance" being considered on gun owners, I have to consider at what point will you succeed in turning me into a criminal. At what point will I wake up one fine morning only to find myself on the wrong side of some unconstitutional law that would blemish my life in a way as to not ever recover fully. What would you have me do then?
I find it interesting that some liberal democrats would praise the september 11th suicide bombers for their zeal and sacrifice, comparing them to our founding fathers during the american revolution. Yet if I acted with the same zeal against those who would pervert the constitution (which is my revolutionary right) I would be labeled " malcontent", disgruntled or some other profile terminology.
My purpose in writing to you today is to convey this very clearly. I have suffered, my whole life, my mother suffered, raising four boys on her own, to be decent people. I have suffered to remain a " law-abiding" citizen. Any minority who started out with major disadvantages can tell you. They know what I speak of when I use the word " Suffer". They understand the many pitfalls and obstacles that one must face growing up in NYC, a black or latino. Only to come this far and realize that ignorance and tyranny knows no color. And that the cost of freedom is very high.
Consider this deeply when you consider passing written laws against the will of my efforts. Against the will and knowledge of my freedom. And do not make the mistake of endangering the welfare of my future because of your personal disregard for the second amendment and our sacred constitution. Do not make the mistake of turning me into a criminal.
While the passing of rep. Davis is tragic, it only supports my position that gun control is a myth. Providing only a false sense of relief. A fatally false sense of security.
Sincerely,
T. B.
Suffer: a: to submit to or be forced to endure b: to feel keenly: labor under~thirst
c: undergo, experience death, pain, distress d: to sustain loss or damage.
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
Dear representative,
There is purpose in defining the word above. Something that will come to play in the latter part of my letter. My name is T. B. I was born in NYC in 1964. The eldest son of four boys. My parents first came here from the island of Puerto Rico sometime in the late forties.
My generation of brooklynites were the last to see games such as stickball, buck-buck, hot peas and butter, king's and such. You see, we lived on the streets. Before the video game era took hold, we sought our friends. Real people from every race and creed, to play with and pass the time of day. We were good kids and although times were tough, the memories are sweet.
I can remember in my experience as a child owning a few toy guns. They were great. They looked authentic. My favorite was a lever-action shotgun I had that actually popped and smoked afterward. They played a large part in my formative years. They were my companions on every adventure, and comfort when dealing with the monsters that lived in my closet. What is most important however, when I reflect on this time in my life, is that I never had to worry about being killed because of it. The question here is not the problem of children playing with toy guns, but those who would kill children who play with toy guns. Which leads me to some further points.
Gun owners and now many non-gunowners alike have realized that not only is gun control a failure, but by design is meant to disarm and infringe upon the civil rights of the law-abiding. It is a malignancy in light of the mounting facts that will continue to support the concerns of many millions in this country, from all walks of life, that the ultimate goal of gun control advocates is to disarm Americans. The question I ask myself daily is when does a citizen stop being "law-abiding" when those laws become unjust? Unconstitutional. Corrupt. And what does he do about it when the system in place is failing the people?
Your argument on the costs to the city relating to gun violence becomes muted when you consider the cost, financial and emotional, to the families of the victims that you work so diligently to disarm.
" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. Those who renounce the use of their arms against a corrupt political machine are the very people who make that violence inevitable. Passivity only encourages the machine to expand "
- John F. Kennedy
When I hear of further burdens such as " liability insurance" being considered on gun owners, I have to consider at what point will you succeed in turning me into a criminal. At what point will I wake up one fine morning only to find myself on the wrong side of some unconstitutional law that would blemish my life in a way as to not ever recover fully. What would you have me do then?
I find it interesting that some liberal democrats would praise the september 11th suicide bombers for their zeal and sacrifice, comparing them to our founding fathers during the american revolution. Yet if I acted with the same zeal against those who would pervert the constitution (which is my revolutionary right) I would be labeled " malcontent", disgruntled or some other profile terminology.
My purpose in writing to you today is to convey this very clearly. I have suffered, my whole life, my mother suffered, raising four boys on her own, to be decent people. I have suffered to remain a " law-abiding" citizen. Any minority who started out with major disadvantages can tell you. They know what I speak of when I use the word " Suffer". They understand the many pitfalls and obstacles that one must face growing up in NYC, a black or latino. Only to come this far and realize that ignorance and tyranny knows no color. And that the cost of freedom is very high.
Consider this deeply when you consider passing written laws against the will of my efforts. Against the will and knowledge of my freedom. And do not make the mistake of endangering the welfare of my future because of your personal disregard for the second amendment and our sacred constitution. Do not make the mistake of turning me into a criminal.
While the passing of rep. Davis is tragic, it only supports my position that gun control is a myth. Providing only a false sense of relief. A fatally false sense of security.
Sincerely,
T. B.