> A very moving letter. I urge you to join me in writing to your
legislator,
> and to the governor of our over-regulated state, and tell them to JUST SAY
> NO to gun control (aka, victim enabling)
>
> Nancyann
> —– Original Message —–
> From: “Mark Bell”
> Subject: powerful letter from a grandmother re licensing gun owners
>
>
> > Subject:
> > Victim’s Grandmother speaks…
> > From:
> > Harry S <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This appeared in the opinions section of the April 5, 2001 issue of the
> > Mariposa Gazette. This woman obviously understands that the socialist
> > imbeciles in Sacramento confiscated her granddaughter’s ability to
> > defend themselves effectively.
> >
> > Question Legislation
> >
> > I am writing to alert my fellow Mariposans to something going on at the
> > state level that should be far more frightening to you than the so
> > called “energy crisis.” We must remember our legislators have a tendency
> > to use such media hogging items to conceal their dirty legislation.
> > SB52 and AB35 will require you to be fingerprinted, pay an unlimited
> > fee, pass a written firearms law test, pass a shooting proficiency
> > test, pass a hand gun handling demonstration exam, require notification
> > of address change (just like a registered sex offender),pay fees that
> > begin in the $40 to $50 range going as high as $100 or more, and comply
> > with various loaning and transferring laws in order to own a handgun.
> > And what if you do not pass these tests?
> >
> > I am the paternal grandmother of the two children brutally stabbed to
> > death with a pitchfork inside their rural Merced home on Aug. 23, 2000.
> > Although there were sufficient guns in the house for my granddaughters
> > to defend themselves and their siblings, because of my son’s willingness
> > to comply with California State law, two of his children are dead. (Had
> > the girls been able to get to the gun, by California law, my son would
> > have been charged with a felony).
> >
> > If it had not been for my nine-year-old granddaughter’s willingness to
> > sacrifice her life for her siblings, four of them would be dead. The man
> > who killed them was a stranger to the family and though not on drugs at
> > the time, was a known drug abuser. He had recently been arrested for
> > assaulting a police officer and was on parole because of jail
> > overcrowding. (Yet they would have room for me should I fail my test and
> > refuse to give them my gun.)
> >
> > The killer had already violated his parole. The police knew his address.
> > They knew where his mother and grandmother lived. He had mental records.
> > His wife had reported that he had kidnapped her and held her at gunpoint
> > in 1997. She had more recently reported he left threatening messages on
> > her answering machine. Yet my son would have been in more trouble had
> > his 14 or 13 year-old daughters been able to get to his gun. How safe
> > will we be against these predators if they know we are not armed? Please
> > think about it, and call your legislators today.
> >
> > Mary Carpenter
> >
>
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