Perhaps I should send this to him...
"Good sir,
I am a supporter of the constitution, and upon reading your column I wanted to communicate to you certain facts. I was thinking of sending you a copy of the Senate committee investigation back in the 1980s that poured through historical evidence and came to the conclusion that there is a individual right to bare arms in the constitution.
But then I reflected further upon your column and realized that you did not seem too enthusiastic about open discussion, or even rational thinking, from
what you wrote about Senator Reid.
So I have come to the conclusion that trying to discuss facts with you would yield no reward for my efforts, and so I have decided to give you some facts of another kind.
Your hatred of the constitution has been scorned by your fellow Americans. Even the Congress of these here states, controlled by the Democrats who support gun control, have made no real moves on this issue. They had the best moment possible to lead the charge for more gun laws. But they demurred, they did not charge forward as you so wish.
Instead, what has discussion centered on after the shootings? Not on eliminating guns, but on what a good person with a gun could have done to stop these shootings. Does not your blood boil? The people cast down your argument, they tear it out by the root to discard it. In its place they place what you hate; allowing more citizens to carry guns. The people have dug out your foundation against guns; they instead discuss letting people carry guns in your place.
How is it possible, that the country ignores your pleas, that your assertions from some unknown preacher carry no weight? It is because the people are against you; you have positioned yourself against the great mass of the public. Some few may side with you, but they hold less power than in older times. No longer can they pass an assault weapons ban; their power has been cut down, torn from them. How is this? The people see gun control as a sham; a toothless lion, a security guard who flees in time of trouble.
Let me repeat that of fundamental importance; you are set against the public. They have no taste for great and glorious gun control laws. Your train has been stopped as it neared the top; it is beginning to move backwards. Around the nation, gun laws are getting relaxed, the will of anti-gun city councils sundered from their power by preemption laws. Every year more people apply for and more people legally carry firearms with them.
And this shows you as a small sand castle against a rising tide. One lone voice, devoid of charisma, power, or reach, cannot hope in a thousand years to set back the sea that is America.
Your foes are more numerous, better organized, and fiercer. Every year they muster more compelling reasons and more supporters, striking down your emotion driven yells in the public arena. You have been exposed, your arguments stripped from you, shown to be lacking. More guns are made, bought, and used every year. You have been defeated. America has sampled gun control and found it to be wanting, and so spat it out. You have no power to set back the tide, nor to hold out while it washes over you. Your children, your children's children, and their children after that will yet grow up in an America that recognizes the right to keep and bare arms."
Phew...turned out a bit longer than I expected....
CR
