Good day all. A few days ago a letter to the editor in the Boston Globe was posted and caught a number of people by surprise. It was a letter written by a gun owner who is also has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
The letter writer talks about how he was sitting on a train when he overheard someone ranting and raving about gun owners and the NRA. The writer did not hold back in his comments. Here is his letter from the Boston Globe:
To the man I sat next to on my way in to Boston:
When I boarded the commuter rail, you were already in the midst of a spirited phone conversation and didn’t seem to care about how loud you were talking. You were talking with someone about the Paris train attack and the growing epidemic of gun violence in America.
You spoke about the “murderous NRA” and “bloodthirsty gun nuts” who were causing our schools to “run red with blood.” You spoke profanely of the Republicans who opposed President Obama’s call for “sensible gun control,” and you lamented the number of “inbred redneck politicians” who have “infiltrated Capitol Hill.”
I found myself amazed at the irony of the situation. While you were spewing your venom, I sat quietly next to you with my National Rifle Association membership card in my wallet and my 9mm pistol in its holster. You were only 12 inches away from my legally owned semiautomatic pistol. I suppose I didn’t look like the “bloodthirsty gun nut” you thought I should be. It apparently didn’t register to you that I could so cleverly disguise myself by wearing a fleece coat, Patriots hat, and khakis.
So, to the angry liberal who sat next to me on the commuter rail: I don’t hate you. I don’t have any ill feelings toward you. I don’t wish to do you harm. And I don’t regret sitting next to you. On the contrary; I feel bad for you. It must hurt carrying that much hate inside of you.
You obviously have strong opinions about this hot topic. So, let me say this as plainly as I can: If a bad guy with a gun had decided to walk onto that train and start shooting people, I would have been prepared and able to use my gun to defend my own life and the lives of everyone else on that train, including yours. Although you may hate me, a gun owner, I would risk my life for you.
Opinions and ideologies make a pretty thin shield against the bullets of a madman. Your liberal self-righteousness and ignorance may have made you feel superior and comfortable, but during that 40-minute train ride to Boston, my gun kept you safe.
This Letter to the Editor is amazing. I was surprised that it was actually published in the Boston Globe, which long ago earned the moniker “Pravda on the Charles.” The comments section was amusing as the liberal nuts and moonbats went after the letter writer. There were a sprinkling of commentators who supported and understood what the writer was saying.
Getting a CCW in Massachusetts is not easy. To begin with, you have to get a Firearms ID card which grants you limited permission to exercise your constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Then you have to go for training classes, (A good idea. You should always know what you are doing), and then get fingerprinted and photographed.
You are also limited in the firearms you are allowed to actually own. If you look at ads for firearms, you will see a notation about it being “Massachusetts compliant.” (Also California, New York and a few other totalitarian states) You can only have a gun that will hold 10 rounds. (In the case of New York, it’s 7 rounds)
Among the other idiocies of Massachusetts is that it is illegal to have a human shaped target, never mind one that is an actual photograph. So if you want to practice shooting zombies, or put two into the turban of Osama bin Laden, you are out of luck and looking at a felony charge. (How this hasn’t been challenged under the 1st Amendment is beyond me)
And God help you if you happen to have a spent casing in your car or pocket. That comes under having “Ammunition components.” If you happen to go to a gun range in the Free State of New Hampshire and rent a gun, and have a casing drop into a cuff, handbag or pocket, you have to get rid of it before you cross the border. If they police catch you, it’s off to jail.
Massachusetts, like all of the cities and states controlled by the Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats, utterly opposed an armed population. At one point, under governor Michael Stanley Dukakis, you didn’t even have the right to defend yourself in your own home. If your house was broken into, you had a duty to retreat. That moronic law was repealed thankfully.
It’s going to take an attempted mass shooting where a CCW holder intervenes and stops the criminal before things start to change in the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts. Getting this letter to the editor into the Boston Globe is a first start.
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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