From a firearms discussion list : Excellent Letter!
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A letter to Congress:

I am calling on you to honor your oath to support and defend the
Constitution of the United States. The Second Amendment IS the
Constitution. Gunownership IS Freedom. Gunownership IS safety.

Guns in civilian hands are exactly where they belong. Each year you
deploy our troops to places thousands of miles away where civilians are
being slaughtered — oftentimes by their own government, sometimes by
marauders against whom their government has made them defenseless and
cannot or will not defend.

Demands for so-called “gun control” are based on lies and hysteria.
Where Americans carry weapons in their own defense, they are safest.
Where ‘Gun Control’ holds sway (New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago,
Los Angeles and Baltimore) the murder rate is highest and the people
left defenseless.

I call on you to honor the Second Amendment in the same fashion as the
great State of Vermont, which merely prohibits criminal use of personal
weapons. Alternately, you may pass a law patterned after Kennesaw,
Georgia, which requires that each household maintain a weapon. Since
Kennesaw passed that law, violent crime has plummeted.

Best, however, is for you to follow the plain language and original
intent of the Second Amendment and *require* every able-bodied American
to maintain a fully-automatic assault rifle and ammunition at home for
militia duty, in the same manner the Swiss have done for years. This
will go far to increase our national strength — needed especially in
the aftermath of this Administration’s drawdown of our military strength
and revelations tending to show that our most sensitive nuclear secrets
were traded away for reelection money — and it will also increase the
concept of citizen ownership of and participation in our Republican form
of government.

Very truly yours,