Letter to OFCC: A real choice for gun owners (?)

Fri Oct 22 07:21:22 2004

I am a visitor to your site daily. I usually like reading the stories and the armed citizen articles. I have one large problem with it though. that problem is the pro- Bush anti- Kerry rhetoric. The truth of the matter is that they both favor more gun control and have equally bad records on gun control. there is a candidate that shares your views though and his name is Michael Badnarik. He is the Libertarian candidate for President. he supports the repeal of all unconstitutional gun control laws. He promotes freedom and personal responsibility. The other candidates tell you that voting for a third party is wasting your vote. That is a lie! Of course they will tell you that so you will vote for them even if they are the lesser of two evils. Voting for the lesser of two evil is still a vote for evil. If a 3rd party candidate gets enough votes and support, the other parties will have to take notice. Please dont take my word for it. Go to http://www.lp.org/ and http://badnarik.org/ and decide for yourself.

Please vote your conscience this election day. But dont vote for a candidate you dont believe in or dont respect just because they have the best chance of winning. I believe it is time to make a stand and vote for more liberty not less.

Please consider printing this on your website immediately. Gve your members all of their choices this election day.

Sincerely,

Roy Martin

Chad Baus' Response:

Roy -

Conservatives "voting their conscience" (for Perot) gave us 8 years of Bill Clinton and 10 years of the failed assault weapons ban. It gave us Waco and Elian and, yes, Monica. Is it worth risking this and worse again? Absolutely not!

The place to try and grow a third party safely is at the bottom, not the top. That way, losing a race or two (or most, or all) along the way won't result in the kind of damage to our country that the '92 loss did.

You said: "The truth of the matter is that they both favor more gun control and have equally bad records on gun control."

Not even close.

When governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed that state's concealed carry law. Countless lives have been saved.

As President, Bush's Attorney General has agreed the Second Amendment is an individual right - something Clinton's AG Janet Reno argued against (!), and certainly something a Kerry AG (Charles Schumer?) will oppose as well.

As President, Bush has told the UN in no uncertain terms that they may have NO say in our Constitutionally recognized, God-given right to bear arms.

I realize Bush's vocal support for AWB renewal was misguided, but that's a far cry from making him "equally bad" as Kerry.

John Kerry has a 20 year history of votes to ban guns, ammunition, and to raise taxes on both. Kerry has, time and again, forwarded the idea that the UN needs to approve virtually everything America does. Think that will stop when they come asking for our guns again? Not a chance.

I don't want to overwhelm our website readers with the national race, but the truth is, it's a slow time for Ohio CHL news because of the national race. Also, as has been discussed here frequently, this race is of utmost importance, because John Kerry and the UN could quickly trump our constitutional and states' rights, which we have worked so hard to protect.

11 more days. Make your vote count.

Chad Baus
OFCC Web Editor

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