I found this under my op-ed piece in usatoday.com, posted by one Ron McCune [paragraph breaks added]:
THE CRIMINALS OF AMERICA WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE REPUBLICANS FOR LETTING THEM GET ALL THE GUNS THEY CAN GET! . . .
It’s all because of the Republicans that criminals get to get all the guns they want! Republicans are the ONLY ones in America who are standing in the way of America passing laws that would make it hard or impossible for criminals to get guns! When are the Republicans going to wake up and see that they are being used by the gun lobby who’s only intrerest is to increase the sales of guns!
Criminals get their guns by having people who can buy guns to go buy all the guns they want and then sell them to criminals. There is a huge illegal underground market run by gangs and criminals of all kinds that have created this illegal black market that sells guns to criminals. EVERYONE in America want to stop this except the Republicans who are so misinformed that they think that they are good law abiting anti crime citizens! Republicans are preserving their gun rights with keeping the gun laws as they are which in the end gives criminals the ability to get all the guns they want!
HOWEVER I ask ALL OF YOU REPUBLICANS doesn’t it bother you that YOU are responsible for MILLIONS of criminals to get possession of a weapon that makes them the worst kind of human being that there is, namely a killer, a thief, a rapist, a thug! YOU REPUBLICANS try to pass yourselves off as Christians when in FACT YOU Republicans are nothing more than the Devil’s disciples because YOU HELP others become worse because YOU ALLOW them to get all the guns they want!
YOU REPUBLICANS try to pass yourselves off as supporters of the police WHEN IN FACT YOU REPUBLICANS ARE THE MAIN REASON POLICE AND US AMERICANS have such a hard time dealing with crime today because of guns! SO IN REALITY YOU REPUBLICANS ARE HELPING TO KILL POLICE AND US AMERICANS by allowing criminals to get a gun which turns that criminal into the worst they can be!
The criminals would NEVER be able to do the harm they do without a guns, knives, bats, pipes or other weapons police and us Americans can fight against. But a gun is a different story! These criminals wouldn’t be as bad as a person as they are without a gun! A gun gives criminals a feeling of power over all those that they accoust! Republicans are making people more evil, something that makes the devil proud and happy!
Years ago in the 60’s when I was young I got mugged 4 times by gangs. I got my butt kicked but I feared not death because their was no guns. Today it is a different world.
WE NEED TO TURN AMERICA BACK TO THE DAYS WHERE CRIMINALS HAD A VERY HARD TIME GETTING A GUN! WE CAN DO THAT SIMPLY BY PASSING THE FOLLOWING LAW! THIS NEW GUN LAW WOULD STATE THAT YOU CAN KEEP ALL THE GUNS THAT YOU PRESENTLY HAVE. GOT THAT REPUBLICANS! THIS LAW DOESN’T TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY IN THE LEAST BIT!
HOWEVER FROM HERE ON YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUY ONLY 2 TO 5 MORE GUNS DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU LIVE. CITY DWELLERS AND HIGH CRIME AREA CITIZENS WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO BUY 2 MORE GUNS AND RURAL PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE TO BUY 3-5 MORE GUNS. HUNTERS, FARMERS, RANCHERS AND GUN COLLECTORS WOULD HAVE SPECIAL PERMITS TO BUY MORE BUT THOSE GUNS MUST BE CERTIFIED SAFELY LOCKED AWAY AND OR GUARDED IN HOMES OR BUSINES.
WITH THIS LAW PEOPLE WOULD STILL BE ABLE TO OWN A GUN BUT EVENTUALLY IN 3-8 YEARS CRIMINALS WILL HAVE A VERY VERY DIFFICULT TIME GETTING GUNS BECAUSE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SELL A GUN TO CRIMINALS WILL ONLY HAVE TWO GUNS TO SELL!!!!
THIS LAW WILL DRY UP THE UNDERGROUND MARKETPLACE FOR GUNS! ALSO IF WE RECORD BULLETS MARKINGS FROM NEWLY BOUGHT GUNS WE WILL BE ABLE TO SLOW CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BECAUSE WITH THIS NEW LAW EVERYONE WHO BUYS A GUN WILL BE ANSWERABLE TO ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG BECAUSE OF THAT GUN! ALSO WE HAVE TO STOP GUN SALES BY ANYONE BUT LICENSED REGISTERED GUN DEALERS. JUST AS WE TRANSFER CAR TITLES WE MUST ALSO REGISTER GUN TRANSFERS SO AS TO INSURE US ALL THAT THOSE THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE GUNS DON’T GET THEM!
ALSO MAKE IT THE LAW THAT ANYONE WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS MUST NOT BE ABLE TO OWN GUNS! PASSING THIS GUN LAW WILL STOP THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN AMERICA IN MANY WAYS WHILE ALSO LETTING US HAVE GUNS IF WE ARE ALLOWED TO DO SO! SO PLEASE EVERYONE, REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AND EVERYONE ELSE PASS THIS LAW! AFTER ALL WHO’S SIDE ARE YOU ON, THE CRIMINAL OR THE POLICE!!!!!
YOU WANT ORDER IN YOUR SOCIETY YOU HAVE TO HAVE WAYS TO ACHIEVE ORDER! WHAT YOU HAVE NOW IS DAILY HUNDREDS OF GUN RELATED VIOLENCE NATIONWIDE! WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT! JOIN IN THE MOVEMENT TO GET THIS NEW GUN LAW PASSED! CONTACT PRESIDENT OBAMA AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS AND DEMAND THEY PASS THIS LAW OR GO FIND A NEW JOB!
I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR YEARS TO GET THIS LAW PASSED. EVEN TRIED TO GET PRESIDENT OBAMA AND EVERY SENATOR AND MOST REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS WITH ABSOLUTELY ZERO RESPONSE. SO IT’S UP TO YOU THE PEOPLE TO GET THIS LAW PASSED BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT THIS LAW IS THE ONLY WAY YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A CIVILIZED NATION WHERE THE CRIMINALS DON’T RUN THE SHOW EVERY TIME THEY PULL OUT THEIR GUN!!!!
I’M OLD AND WILL BE GONE SOON BUT IT’S UP TO YOU TO MAKE YOUR NATION AND THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE.