Sir: You are a good and decent man, and have posited many arguments regarding limitations to the 2nd Amendment that are supportable by both demonstrable and anecdotal evidence. Your opinions are intellectually sound and obviously heartfelt, and more than a few are regarded by many conservatives, including myself, as reasonable and worthy of consideration.
But I can not support you because your reasoning, conceived with the best of intentions and expressed with a compassionate mien, is wrapped in the whole cloth of the ideology of Euro-American progressives, disciples of Marx and Engels, proselytizers of Scientific Socialism and its later incarnation in the strident, bitter voices of the progenitors of the Frankfurt School, a refuge of petty, agnostic and perverted academics who, like their contemporaries, the leadership of the current Democratic Party, have nothing in common with the plight of the disenfranchised, the impoverished, the marginal and the ignored.
I can not fathom what leads a man with your education and experience to remain in the Democratic Party, to seek office under its auspices and with its endorsement. No callouses on worn hands, no lines etched by hours in the sun, no unhealed illnesses, no untended hearts in this party’s leaders; most are millionaires, a few are billionaires, and all are wretched in their perceived slights and heavy laden in their superficial guilt. And each of these modern Democrat crusaders for the “common man” have nothing in common with their squires and pages and peons but contempt for those who hold power, whether they be righteous or craven in action, conciliatory or combative in demeanor.
I do not imagine you will win, and in fact, your opponent is also a good and decent man, and likely to be elected. He runs a good office, cares for his constituents and serves them well. I have worked to elect local, state and Federal office holders and view him as an honest and trustworthy man, as I assume you, in elected office, would be. I can not support him either, for he follows the Legacy of Lincoln, Grant, Harding, Coolidge, Nixon, Bush I and Bush 2, that is to say, he is a Republican. I am a Southerner, I am a Conservative, I will not forget.
I hope that you will continue to seek to influence the local electorate, and that you will come to terms with loss, at least, with the loss of this campaign’s election. One other point, in my world, being angry and hateful is a mental illness, for healthy humans seek peace and prosperity, it’s in their self-interest to do so. We live in world gone mad with violence, in games, cinema, videos, in the arts and in a good portion of science. Wouldn’t it be great if someone invented a game that blew things together, cannons aimed at empty lots that blew houses to piece, to wholeness, rifles that cured illnesses, and handguns that strew stitches on injured flesh.
Yes, MADD has made a difference, but what freedom or right would be violated if every vehicle had a Drug and Etoh interlock? If vehicle speed was electronically limited to the displayed speed limit? If people were tested on rules of the road, and if Driver’s Ed was “For Real?’ How about traffic law violators forgoing a fine, and rather, having their car impounded for weeks, or months? There is no Amendment protecting Drivers Rights, and technology exists to end 99% of all automobile deaths and injuries within a generation, but…
Just thoughts for you, and best wishes, and God’s Blessings on you and yours. I’ll be praying His will is done today, won’t you join me in that prayer?