Here's my email to him:
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Subject: Are you really serious about your article in the Sun Times
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:46:12 +0000 [View Source]
I read a copy of your article in the Sun Times on your support for Daley's
gun legislation and how it "in no way affects my right to own a shotgun or
rifle for hunting" Hunters need to separate themselves from gun nuts,
February 16, 2003 BY DALE BOWMAN STAFF REPORTER
At first I was aghast...then I thought "surely he wrote this as parody"...now
I'm not sure.
Do you really believe this?
Are you really so narrow in your thought that you think this is a sensible
proposal. Let me, if you will, "fisk" your article
* "Military style" weapons -- what do you consider "military"? Black guns?
Hmmm, that looks like a Remington 700 ADL All Weather. Semi-autos? Hmmm,
there goes your Browning BAR. Pistol grips? Bennelli shotguns. M16s? You
don't think Camp Perry rifle competition is a legitimate sport?
* Ban handguns -- do you not think handguns are a legitimate hunting tool?
How about for handgun competition? How about for a single mother to defend
her family in the crappy neighborhood she's forced to live in?
* Gun fingerprinting -- I can't believe you haven't done even cursory
investigation into the fallacy that is gun fingerprinting. Please read this
simple explanation...
http://www.gunfacts.info/
* Increase the cost of a FOID card -- how about we increase the cost of the
resident hunting license while we're at it to? Say to about $2000 per year?
Does that sound appealing? No? Well, better watch for it when some nanny
group "I know what's good for you" decides that hunting isn't PC anymore but
can't get hunting bans enacted.
* Background checks -- apparently you don't understand the law. Checks are
required for anyone buying a gun from a dealer. Otherwise it's just like any
other face-to-face private sale.
Frankly, your attitude appalls me. The attitude that "my sport is legitimate
but his over there isn't" is elitist and isn't cognizent of the reality of
the motivations behind the gun grabbers. "Surely we must all hang together,
or we will all hang separately"...your article, sir, has just created the
first loop in the noose that will eventually tighten on your own neck.