United States Marine Corps Corporal Joshua Boston has written an open letter to California Senator Diane Feinstein explaining why he will not be registering his firearms should her bill be passed. “I do not believe it is the government's right to know what I own,” he writes, “Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime.”
In the aftermath of the horrific shooting by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month, Senator Feinstein introduced legislation that would reinstate and strengthen the expired 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. The bill bans the sale, transfer, importation, and possession of ‘weapons of war’, as well as big clips, drums, or strips of more than 10 bullets.
The law, if passed, would not be retroactive, but grandfathered in to “protect” current gun-owners. However ... the only way people will be allowed to legally keep their firearms would be to register them with the government, as well as be photographed and finger-printed. Does that sound an awful lot like getting arrested to anyone else? Then what would happen to those records? Would they go into a database? Would they be available for criminal investigations? Because that’s not cool.
Corporal Boston is one of the many Americans not happy about the possibility of such legislation becoming law, so he penned a letter to Senator Feinstein to remind her that it is she who serves him, not the other way around.
“I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America. I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.”
The corporal was also not shy in calling out Senator Feinstein’s hypocrisy in enjoying the protection of armed guards while decrying the public’s right to the same as a crime. He writes, “I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.”
I want to give this guy a hug and buy him a beer. He hits the nail on the head about the ‘good enough for thee, but not for me’ attitude prevalent in Washington. If guns really are evil, why do these politicians have armed guards? They should be more careful -- they might shoot their eyes out.
Do you think legislators should give up their armed guards before demanding that we give up our own weapons?
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Comments 37
good for Corporal Boston, and RIGHT ON!! he has it right: we are NOT servants, we are NOT peasants, and we are NOT indebted to the government - on the contrary, it is the other way around. to that, i leave these two thomas jefferson quotes - relevant, often repeated, not often enough remembered:
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
The right to own and bear arms shall not be infringed upon. The end.
Meh. I don't have a problem with guns. They shouldn't be banned and people have a right to own them, blah blah blah. I'm a rare breed in that I'm indifferent to the whole debate. I hate the crazies on both sides. :D
That said, what's the problem with requiring people to register their guns? I assumed that was already a requirement....? Is it not?
I assumed too that this was already a requirement, just like biological and chemical agents are tracked - thanks for bringing it to my attention so I can support it.
And none of this gun control is going to do a thing from preventing CRIMINALS from doing bad deeds with guns. And that is why I have a problem with this bill. They are infringing on how much I can defend myself, whereas politicians have as much protection as they deem necessary.
But, you have to register a car in California and no one is freaking out over that.
You guys are weird.
In some places which are REALLY expert on organized crime, they know the crooks are up to no good but they can never nail them. So they get them on things like tax fraud and so on. So, if everyone registered their guns then the real criminals (who wouldn't register their gun probably) could get nailed for not having done so.
Whatever, words are wasted on some people. Sorry but so many reactions are just "jump up and bite". How about an intelligent consideration of this idea? A dialogue?