Bent and Twisted Hair – A Letter Sent all the way to Washington

by Elizabeth Nelson

Wow, have you ever gotten a wild, twisted hair and then done something about it? I tried to make an appointment to see Governor Scott, to no avail (hey, never know unless you try) – they staged a freaking protest, over Trayvon Martin at his office and got to see him – I'm not that inconsiderate, so instead I decided to write him yet another letter, but that's nothing new, I do that every month or two.

This time, I'm posting it here for all of you to see, and sending it on to all of my representatives - from the House to the Senate. ;) Feel free to use any part of it, to send on to your representatives. Find your rep here by typing in your information:

Dear [added Representative of choice here] (they are all about the same, except for Mr. Rick Scott and Mr. Ted Cruz - I know, he's not my rep, but any excuse to write to the man, he is my hero)

I am writing to you today, because I am concerned with the direction of our Country, not only fiscally but morally.  Instead of taking responsibility for the direction, and doing the hard work to fix and correct our path, we have leaders that would sooner place blame.  Perhaps they don’t have the solution or they lack the desire to do what it takes to do get the job done.  Whether it’s spending less and within our means or protecting our Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms, the solution is right in front of us and it starts with We the People.

Our Four Fathers knew that our Second Amendment Right wasn’t just for hunting, but it was going to be a freedom that would be needed for protection from a Tyrannical Government.  Sadly it’s also one of many freedoms that are taken for granted and misused.  However, when will we stop blaming guns and realize that we don’t have a gun problem, but we have a heart and mental problem? 

We have gun laws that we don’t enforce now, so how is creating more laws going to deter criminals from breaking those laws? Rape, murder, drunken driving, prostitution, suicide and selling illegal drugs are all against the law, but people do it all the time.  It’s not the law-abiding citizen that is robbing banks, shooting up theaters and schools, it’s the mentally ill.  We have a mental illness problem that no one is addressing, just like the VA system, until someone noticed vets dying.

People don’t need guns to kill; Cain killed Abel with a rock, Timothy McVeigh used fertilizer, the 9/11 terrorists used box cutters and 2 airplanes, the Nazi’s used cyanide gas, OJ Simpson used a knife, the BTK Killer used tape, a knife and pantyhose and Ted Bundy used his charm and a knife. My point is, where there is a will, evil will always find a way. 

We don’t blame every Muslim for what happened during 9/11, cars for drunken driving accidents and we certainly don’t make the driver instantly famous by televising his accident all over national news, so why do we do that with these idiots?  The solution is so simple a Liberal Caveman could understand it, but Obama won’t do it, because it humanizes us the legal-gun-owners.

1.    Stop making these killers famous

2.    Make the laws we have on the books so horrific they’ll think twice before touching a gun

3.    Make a nationwide example of these idiots when you prosecute them

4.    Make heroes out of the Concealed Carriers that come forward and save lives, at the risk of their own

5.    Have someone produce and air PSAs for in-home gun safety

6.    Issue coupons for in-home gun safes, which are outrageously priced for the good ones – giving any store a federal break that honors the coupon, this way children and burglars (because criminals obey the law) can’t get their hands on our weapons.

7.    Fix our broken mental health system. Adam Lanza’s mom was trying to get him help and couldn’t. Have you heard about 17-Year-Old John LaDue?

In a nutshell, no pun intended, John LaDue was caught before he could carry out his heinous murder plot to kill his entire family, head to his high school, set off a bomb and then shoot whomever the bomb didn't kill. Where, prey-tell did a 17-year-old get bombs and a stockpile of weapons? He stole them from his father (see solution #5 above).  

He himself admitted that he came from a good home and had never been bullied, the common liberal excuse for retaliatory gun violence. He said he’d “harbored homicidal thoughts for years,” and wanted to take as many people out with him as he could. Evil will always find a way. Fortunately, in this case, a neighbor noticed his odd behavior, when he kept going in and out of the storage unit and called it in. 

That’s why solutions #5, #6 and #7 (PSAs,  in-home Gun Safes and our Mental Health System) are the smartest solutions, rather than making guns and law-abiding citizens the villain and are the solutions you should be focusing on and the only way we are going to get this heart and mental disease problem solved; because if only cops having guns, and gun bans worked, people wouldn't get stabbed, raped, beat up, robbed and murdered in prison.

Sincerely, Armed and Concerned in FL