- Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:34 am
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Here is the letter I just sent off to Dianne Feinstein in response to the weapons ban bill she will submit in a couple of weeks.
"Greetings Ms Feinstein,
I just read about your proposal on gun bans and have to ask if you are insane? The problem we have in this country is not one of weapons but one of a national mindset where humans are of little or no value. It's tragic that those children and teachers were killed a couple of weeks ago but a knee jerk reaction to ban weapons is not the answer and will not work. Your proposal will cost jobs at a time when we need to be expanding the tax base not decreasing it.
We have a true National Tragedy every single day where nearly 1,000 children are brutally executed with no chance of appeal all in the name of choice for their mothers. If someone else killed these children it wold be considered murder yet we believe that a mother can commit the same act with impunity? This shows that the most innocent are nothing more than garbage just on the whims and convenience of the mother.
We have a culture where you folks in congress and even the President spew hate filled rhetoric pitting American against American, where the President talks of getting revenge against his opponents where he says that if his opponents come with knives that his supporters should bring guns. You talk of each other as enemies and accuse people of racism and bigotry just because they differ in opinion. This has an affect on the national mindset and further reduces the value of fellow humans in peoples eyes. It helps people come to the conclusion that they can commit crimes against others because they are bad people for having differing ideas.
We have dozens of video games that make a sport of hunting down and killing people in the name of entertainment, and thousands of Movies and TV shows that make extreme violence even more mainstream as entertainment. Yet you seem to think this has no effect on children and people in general, yet companies pay $3.8 million dollars for a 30 second ad during the Superbowl because they know the influence media has on people. The exposure to all this violence desensitizes people to it and once again contributes to the national mindset that people are worthless.
In the name of inclusion we have children brought up where failure is blameless and in many cases they are still praised for trying in the name of protecting their self esteem. In the real world you only get rewards for excellence and only have a strong self esteem if you have dome something worthy of it, by coddling kids and telling them they are great even when they have done nothing praise worthy they gain a sense of entitlement. As they grow it manifests it's self as people who expect everything to be given to them without working for it or earning it. With the help of Congressional and Presidential rhetoric we are turning into a society where hard work and industriousness is looked on as greedy and the rewards from it are unfair. Every day you demonize successful people and push for redistributing wealth in the name of fairness, confusing equal opportunity with equal outcome which makes the entitlement crowd keep getting more and more angry at the “haves” since they are the “have nots.”
You in congress can't even do your most basic job of formulating and passing a budget, yet seem to thrive on your manufactured crisis such as "the fiscal cliff" because it gives you the opportunity to blame others, and then you jump all over a real crisis and tragedy, to not let it go to waste to ram ill conceived and malicious bills down out throats that erode the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill Of Rights. Every day we see members of Congress trying to blame other people for their inaction and failures, every day we see you demonizing your opponents. This propensity to blame everyone else for your failures seeps into society as a whole and in a country where everyone is blameless, it's no wonder that a mentally deviant person could conceive within his mind that killing his mother and then children and teachers is somehow OK.
Within minutes of the news coverage starting over the shooting we had the reporters and pundits looking for blame everywhere when the blame lay squarely with the shooter, who was shaped in part by the national mindset where people are just worthless piles of garbage to be thrown away that Congress and the President helped shape. The fact that it was all over every media outlet with the same theme of the shooter being blameless adds to the shameful national mindset and plants the idea to other disturbed people that they can do the same thing with no blame being laid in their direction. It tacitly encourages such acts so we will have more crisis for you to jump all over.
We hare a Nation that was founded on religious principles yet the state was kept out of the churches business and vice-verse, yet we have a near all out assault on the values that the country was based on. Every single day we see news stories about the erosion of religious liberties and assaults made on Christianity. Even the President has been attacking the fundamental beliefs and rights of the 78% of the people who by census are still Christians of some denomination or another. We live in a country where only 4% of the people say they are atheist or agnostic yet we are letting them make the national agenda which includes the destruction of the family, the destruction of basic morality and the destruction of basic humanity. Even without religion, once a nation loses it's moral compass, which Congress has been contributing to, it is doomed to failure because the most basic ideas of human dignity, compassion and humanity go away. Once they are gone people openly and freely denigrate others and do as they please everyone else be dammed.
If you want to do something that will prevent this kind of tragedy from being repeated, then you need to start within the halls of Congress and tone down the flame wars, finger pointing and demonizing of your opponents. Next you can start doing the job you were elected to do instead of continually forcing crisis and then exploiting the crisis to get your way. You can cooperate and compromise in everything you do in our names instead of trying to force things on us and blame others when they don't work. You can stop spending too much money and saddling people with a hopeless level of debt. After that you can start addressing the mental health issues that you have helped cause and perhaps people needing help can finally get help.
We are all in this together and we are all interested in the country doing well economically, politically and spiritually and it will take a change back to some of the traditional values, civility and humanity that served us well in the past. You can help fix it, but throw away you gun ban and start focusing on the root cause of the problem as I have outlined above.
Thanks for your time and service, and I hope you start actually doing the peoples work.
Sincerely,"
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