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Presidential Ignorance
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by
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Matt Giwer
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The title may sound rude but first we must clearly
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understand the term ignorance. It is only a state of a lack of
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knowledge. It is a condition that can be repaired. I would hope
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to do my civic duty here and alleviate one area of his
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ignorance.
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I am referring to your staged, duck hunting trip. When
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questioned about it you said it was to demonstrate your gun
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control efforts were not directed toward hunters. Frankly, Mr.
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President, we don't give a damn.
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Mr. President, most of us with guns have them for a very
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immediate purpose, defense against criminals, the very same
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reason your Secret Service guards have guns. And, Mr. President,
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we are mad as hell because every proposal we have seen from you
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only makes is harder for us to get guns. We do not carry guns on
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the street; making it harder for us to gets guns does nothing to
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get them off of the street.
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We are the people facing armed gangs. Taking "assault
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weapons" away from us is not going to do us the least bit of
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good, in fact it will kill us.
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Mr. President, we are not concerned about the right to
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freeze our backsides off in a duck blind early in the morning.
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We are concerned about our right to have a chance against house
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breakers late at night. I at least have never been attacked by a
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duck. I have never heard a report of anyone being attacked by a
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duck. I have never heard of a duck robbing a home, raping a
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woman, or murdering anyone. Mr. President, I am not afraid of a
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duck.
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I am afraid for my family and friends being bludgeoned,
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stabbed, throttled and shot. I can not find one proposal from
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you to alleviate my fear. What I do find from you are proposals
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to make my family and friends even more helpless. I find you are
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proposing to make things harder on the victims.
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Every proposal has been to make self defense more difficult.
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Mr. President, I hold I have a god given right to defend myself,
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my family, my friends, my property and the political institutions
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of this country. I hold I even have a god given right to defend
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people I have never met.
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I hold all men have these rights. I hold the only way to
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exercise these rights is with guns. In my youth I may have
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imagined disarming thugs bare handed. With the wisdom that comes
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from experience I know I can not call time out to dial 911.
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When all you can do is find ways to limit our access to guns
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we see you not as the solution but as part of the problem. We
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are tired of hearing that the restrictions on us are not all that
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bad. We are asking why there are any restrictions at all on us
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and none on those we and your Secret Service guard are facing.
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Are our lives less than yours? Why can we not have the
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submachineguns that protect your life? When will you give up
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what we can not have?
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You say we do not need submachineguns? Then neither does
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your guard. Is your life truly more important than ours?
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You do not talk like you understand us at all. Please let
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me explain it to you. We do not give a damn about your gun laws.
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We will not comply with any law our right to defend what we hold
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dear. We are a free people who will not bow to your attempts to
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make it harder for us to do so.
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Mr. President, you are no longer ignorant. You now know who
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we are. What we want from you are measures to reduce crime so we
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will not have the absolute necessity of gun ownership. We are
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not interested in you making it harder for us and not them. We
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do not want you to do something; we want you to do something that
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works.
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