NIGHTWATCH
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I plan to follow up on this with a phone call.
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. Benabe. 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, to play with and pass the time of day. We were all good kids and the memories are sweet.
I can remember in my experience as a child owning a few toy guns. They were great. The 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.
Gunowners 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 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 mute when you consider the cost, both financial and emotional, to the families of the victims that you work so diligently to disarm.
" Those who make peaceful revolution impossable 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.
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. 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. Dont make the mistake of turning me into a criminal.
Sincerely,
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. Benabe. 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, to play with and pass the time of day. We were all good kids and the memories are sweet.
I can remember in my experience as a child owning a few toy guns. They were great. The 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.
Gunowners 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 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 mute when you consider the cost, both financial and emotional, to the families of the victims that you work so diligently to disarm.
" Those who make peaceful revolution impossable 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.
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. 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. Dont make the mistake of turning me into a criminal.
Sincerely,
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..... S.O.B'S would have been sorry. 
