Missed opportunity

Shooting Industry, June, 2007

Just read your editorial in the April '07 issue of Shooting Industry magazine and I can tell you're pretty POed about the legislation proposed by New York Congressperson Carolyn McCarthy ("Congressional Gun-Ban Forces Fire First Round," Industry Watch). I am, too. New York state is supposed to have a lot of hunters. Well, where were they and their votes when she got elected?

As I steel myself for the coming onslaught on our gun rights, I'm reminded of a letter I wrote a couple years ago to the NRA-ILA. I've included it as an attachment to this e-mail. I never so much as received a thank you or any kind of acknowledgement from even their lowliest clerk or gofer. I ask that you please read it and use the "power of the press" to further my idea. I think it has merit and the NRA missed an opportunity for a defense against the gun grabbers.

On another vein, have you noticed that odd things seem to come out of New York and its voters, as it does from Massachusetts and Delaware? You can't fix stupid!

By the way, I do write my state senators and congressmen/women. Some respond, some don't. I stress the Bill of Rights, in particular, the phrase "the people." In some amendments, it's clear that "the people" refers to an individual, yet those amendments and the meaning of "the people" is disregarded when the text of the Second Amendment is dissected by lawyers, er, lawmakers.

Please read my attachment.

Frank Tobias III

Mr. Tobias, I will read your attachment and get back to you. Keep up the fight.