DAMN GOOD LETTER

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:27:00 -0500
To: glidewell@sptimes.com
Subject:

Regarding your article in the St. Petersburg Times, Columns:" Workplace Bad Enough Without a Gun Around" http://www.sptimes.com/News/102801/Columns/Workplace_bad_enough_.shtml When you are wrong, you are really wrong. First, the fairly trivial wrong: Much to the dismay of readers who may share your abysmal level of Constitutional scholarship, the Constitution doesn't say ANYTHING about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Those words don't appear there but are in the Declaration of Independence. Now, even though I consider this a fairly trivial mistake, it did seem to be the centerpiece of your thesis. Does the fact that the Supreme Court doesn't decide issues based on the Declaration of Independence take ANY of the wind out of your sails? Probably not. Since you haven't really thought this though, the validity of your argument probably doesn't matter to you. "The right to a good time" is a laughable premise.

What this boils down to is the fact that you, and anti-gun politicians, just don't trust the people with guns. The facts don't get in your way at all. Read "More Guns, Less Crime" by John Lott. I know, the left tries to discredit his research simply by decreeing it invalid, but they have long since given up trying to find anything specific about it that is ACTUALLY invalid. He studied crime rates in EVERY SINGLE COUNTY in the United States over a ten year period and found that when the law requires that ordinary citizens be issued permits to carry concealed firearms if they aren't "criminals or crazy", SURPRISE!, crime rates go down. Not sometimes. Not usually. Every single time.

"Blood running in the streets!" "Open season on police officers!" "Shoot-outs over traffic altercations!" These are the squeals of anti-gun politicians and leftist editorial writers every time "shall issue" concealed carry laws are proposed. Guess what, none of these things have ever happened.

"Gun Free Zones for Criminals" is what you are proposing and it is stupid and dangerous. I retired after 25 years as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service. I carried a gun every day of that time and continue to do so. I know that guns carried by ordinary, law abiding citizens are a benefit to society, not a danger.

• There is a bank that credits your
  account each morning with $86,400.
  It carries over no balance from day to day.
  Every evening deletes whatever part of the
  balance you failed to use during the day. What
  would you do? Draw out ALL OF IT, of
  course!!!!

• Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
  Every morning, it credits you with 86,400
  seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost,
  whatever of this you have failed to invest to good
  purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no
  overdraft.

• Each day it opens a new account for you.
  Each night it burns the remains of the day.
  If you fail to use the day's deposits, the
  loss is yours.

• There is no going back. There is no
  drawing against the "tomorrow."
  You must live in the present on today's
  deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the
  utmost in health, happiness, and success!
  The clock is running. Make the most of today

.

• To realize the value of ONE YEAR,
  ask a student who failed a grade.

• To realize the value of ONE MONTH,
  ask a mother who gave birth to a premature
  baby.

• To realize the value of ONE WEEK,
  ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

• To realize the value of ONE HOUR,
  ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

• To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,
  ask a person who missed the train.

• To realize the value of ONE-SECOND,
  ask a person who just avoided an accident.

• To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND,
  ask the person who won a silver medal in the
  Olympics.

• Treasure every moment that you have!
  And treasure it more because you shared it with
  someone special, special enough to spend
  your time.

• And remember that time waits for no one.
  Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
  Today is a gift.
  That's why it's called the present!!!

• Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed.
  They make you smile and encourage you to
  succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word
  of praise, and they always want to open their
  heart to us.

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WILL ROGERS.

• -Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a
  whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

• -If you're ridin' ahead of the herd,
  take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

• -If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,
  try ordering somebody else's dog around.

• -After eating an entire bull,
  a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring.
  He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
  The moral: When you're full of bull,
  keep your mouth shut.

• -Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

• -There's two theories to arguing with a woman.
  Neither one works.

• -If you find yourself in a hole,
  the first thing to do is stop digging.

• -Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

• -It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

• -The quickest way to double your money
  is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

• -Don't squat with your spurs on.

• -Good judgment comes from experience,
  and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

• -Never miss a good chance to shut up.

• -Always drink upstream from the herd.

• -When you're throwin' your weight around,
  be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else.

• -There are three kinds of men:
  The ones that learn by read'n
  The few who learn by observation.
  The rest of them have to pee on the
  electric fence for themselves.



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