Today, the News & Record (Greensboro, NC) published this letter from Anthony Belli of Greensboro. Belli plagiarizes from this article by National Rifle Association president, John C. Sigler. Belli's letter is below. The plagiarized portions are in red.
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Barack Obama has claimed that he does not take donations from special-interest groups or lobbyists. True, but he has accepted donations from their spouses, relatives and friends (source: Fox News).
Obama has no respect for the Second Amendment. He has voiced support or voted to ban all handguns, ban the right to carry in every state, and to ban firearms in the home, even for self-protection.
Obama’s attitude toward armed, violent criminals has been one of benign neglect at best. When the Illinois Senate wanted to try gang-bangers as adults when they fired a gun on or near a school ground (1999) or when they committed murder to help their gang, and when the Senate wanted to make them eligible for the death penalty (2001), Obama voted no in both cases. Obama said he believed federal mandatory-sentencing laws used to put armed and violent predators behind bars should be abolished (source: Chicago Tribune).
When Illinois lawmakers introduced a bill that would exonerate citizens for violating local gun bans if they used a gun to defend themselves in their homes, Obama voted no. Obama would disarm the public and allow the criminals to run free.
Roch it is time for you to get on the Rhino for a certain letter to the Editor, from Nick Cornell page 47.
ReplyDeleteYou've peaked my curiosity, Keith, but I'm out of town at the moment and since John Hammer remains the last print journalist to see the web as some sort of undeserving stepchild and the current issue is not online, you'll have to tell me what's up.
ReplyDeleteroch, it was a letter to the editor which was a e mail driven piece but was signed by a person named nick cornell. it is called Don't see Hollywood. This is what was in the e-mail because I got a similar e-mail this past week from another person. Here is what was in my e mail which is the same in rhino. Keith
ReplyDeleteJust a personal observation...as I watched the news coverage
> of the
> massive flooding in the Midwest with over 100 blocks of
> the city of
> Cedar Rapids, Iowa under water, levees breaking, and the
> attention now
> turned downstream for when this massive amount of water
> hits the
> Mississippi, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what
> we didn't
> see...
>
> 1. We don't see looting.
> 2. We don't see street violence.
> 3. We don't see people sitting on their rooftops
> waiting for the
> government to come and save them.
> 4. We don't see people waiting on the government to
> do anything.
> 5. We don't see Hollywood organizing benefits to
> raise money for people
> to rebuild.
> 6. We don't see people blaming President Bush.
> 7. We do n't see people ignoring evacuation orders.
> 8. We don't see people blaming a government
> conspiracy to blow up the
> levees as the reason some have not held.
> 9. We don't see the US Senators or the Governor of
> Iowa crying on TV.
> 10. We don't see the Mayors of any of these cities
> complaining about the
> lack of state or federal response.
> 11. We don't see or hear reports of the police going
> around confiscating
> personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.
> 12. We don't see gangs of people going around and
> randomly shooting at
> the rescue workers.
> 13. You don't see some leaders in this country
> blaming the bad behavior
> of the Iowa flood victims on 'society' (of course
> there is no wide
> spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses
roch did you see the letter to the editor to the rhino? and what I was talking about?
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