Is my letter to my representatives effective or counter productive?

[Damien45]

I usually steer clear of doing this because many of the letters I see are so poorly written that it would take too much of my time to correct all the mistakes. Your letter was actually pretty good though, so here’s my edit:

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RE: The Gun Registration Act of 2007, House Bill No. 760

I am sincerely disappointed in your latest attempt to further harass law abiding citizens with a gun registration requirement. This requirement would be a waste of money for the state and costly to gun owners. A similar attempt by Maryland has failed miserably, and according to the Maryland State Police has never been able to link any crimes to any of the registered guns. As I am sure you know, criminals do not feel the need to follow the laws and therefore will not be registering their guns.

What you may not know is that law abiding gun owners, such as myself, are actually in favor of laws that would cut down on gun violence. However, those laws must target the people who commit crimes, not law abiding gun owners.

The decisions of Democratic politicians on gun control issues during the next few years will determine which party many conservative gun owners will support come election time. The Democrats could pick up many votes from gun owners like myself if they would simply recognize the constitutional right to bear arms by law abiding citizens, and introduce laws which would directly target the criminals.

I am respectfully requesting that you withhold your support of House Bill No. 760 and go back to the drawing board in order to come up with some effective legislation that protects law abiding citizens, including gun owners, and only punishes those who actually commit crimes.

Sincerely,

XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX

I propose that we all take this letter and send it to our respective reps. If we agree on the context of the revision, that is.

 

[Robert Hairless]

ProjectMayhem:

Laws are not necessarily just simply because they are on the books. Alcohol was illegal in the United States by way of a constitutional amendment less than a century ago. Was that a just law? Were the anti-miscegenation laws just? If they weren’t, should a citizen stand up against unjust laws? Is he ever justified in resorting to violence to fight an unjust law, should more peaceful methods of change fail? I await your response.

I guess you don't realize that you've justified violence towards gun owners from those who believe that the Second Amendment does not give them the right to own firearms. No matter.

By the way, a Constitutional amendment is not a "law."

At any rate, your time is up. If I let you continue to waste my time I'd have to let everyone do it, and there's just no profit in that.