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This is getting even better - Angel Shamaya's letter to these birds is even blunter than David Codrea's:
VIA FAX, TO:
Assembly Public Safety Committee Members
Carl Washington, Chair 916-319 2152; Jay La Suer, Vice Chair 916-319 2177; Richard L. Dickerson 916-319 2102; Fred Keeley 916-319 2127; Gil Cedillo 916-319 2146; Manny Diaz 916-319 2123; Jackie Goldberg 916-319 2145
FROM:
Angel Shamaya
Founder/Executive Director
KeepAndBearArms.com
Many members in California
RE: AB2222, Proposed Ban on .50 Caliber Target Rifles
April 14, 2002
Dear Mr. Washington, Mr. La Suer and Committee Members,
Though it's hard to fathom, rumor has it you are going to consider FACTS regarding AB2222 -- the proposed ban of the .50 caliber target rifle. Six (6) stark facts have been presented, by me, to Chairman Washington. If he does his job, he will share them with you when you confer on this outrageous bill, and if you are intellectually honest, you will work to kill this bill. Meanwhile, I'd now like to talk to you about your own personal interest in killing this bill.
Be advised that I'm going to be frank and cut to the chase -- I'm not the NRA.
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and gun bans like this are boxing good, decent people into corners that could eventually lead to assassinations of the people who make them happen. That's not a threat -- I don't live in your socialist Criminal Empowerment Zone of a once-decent state -- it's a PREDICTION based on three things:
1) HISTORY
The American Revolution began with gun prohibitionists coming to pick people's guns up in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Those British tyrants -- much like Senator Don Perata and Assemblyman Koretz, AB2222's Chief Mastermind -- made a fatal mistake by thinking that Americans would continue to follow the traintracks to tyranny's pits. The rest is indeed history -- a bloody, painful delivering history -- and history does indeed repeat itself.
2) NO LEGAL RECOURSE
Your Governor is on record with a blatant lie, saying the Second Amendment doesn't mean what it says. He's hedged his bet that the Supreme Court won't rule any time soon in favor of the truth, or he's so emboldened by legislative Rights Thieves and dumbed down, history-ignorant dolts that he just doesn't care that he's lying through his teeth. And your deceitful black-robed phonies in what some people call a "Supreme" Court have backed him up, their oaths amounting to so much toilet paper. So a gun owner in California cannot expect the courts, the police, or your legislature to stop the assault on his rights. That doesn't leave many options, but it does leave people thinking a lot about history, liberty, freedom, and war. These are natural thoughts for California gun owners to have at this time in the state's evolution. It's unfortunate, but that's just where you're at now. I don't mind being the bearer of that bad news, because I genuinely believe that the truth sets you free -- and you who are hearing a bill that bans yet more guns are well-advised to get with the truth.
3) CURRENT REALITY
Unbeknownst to many liberal-minded, bodyguarded communists living in California's upper class gated communities, the commoners among you are getting restless. And righteously pissed off. More every day. They've put up with a mountain of unconstitutional, un-American, illegal gun prohibitions, restrictions and prior restraints to the point of believing, in many cases, that their lack of legal recourse and the ongoing onslaught of anti-gun oppression will one day, maybe soon, turn them, by self-defensive necessity, into modern-day Redcoat Exterminators. Waiting periods for people who need a gun for self-defense because they are being stalked. Limits on handgun purchases that prohibit full enjoyment of the shooting sports. Registration of a constitutional right. Bans on guns because of their appearances. Bans on magazines that hold enough cartridges to fight off a team of home invaders as now frequent your state. Handgun "drop-test" requirements that removed some favored guns from the marketplace of lawful gun owners. And coming soon, competency requirement for handgun purchase -- to exercise a natural and constitutionally-protected right.
If you think gun owners are going to continue laying on their backs for this treasonous tyranny, you are living in a dream world. Going after a sporting rifle with which no crime has been committed, under a court system that offers no legal recourse, pretty much means there is no stopping the legislatures, or the police, but by force. Have you checked how many gun owners there are in your state? They outnumber pinstriped gun prohibitionists mightily, and their ire is truly justified -- and mounting.
If I was living in your state and I owned a .50 caliber rifle, I'd be thinking about revolting. Because if you banned my gun -- a gun that hasn't been used in crime, isn't used in crime, and poses no threat -- and threatened me with prison for merely possessing it, my desire to stay out of prison would trump my respect for the life of anyone who sought to put me there. And you've already banned numerous guns and are seeing widespread civil disobedience of these gun bans, too. There are many clues contained in that piece of information -- if indeed facts matter to you and yours.
If you are wise, you will go out and purchase a copy of a book called Unintended Consequences by John Ross. His book labors to show you where gun prohibition could and possibly will eventually lead this nation. Though written as a novel, I consider it a warning to anyone who'd say "yes" to a gun ban -- a prediction for the demise of anti-gun legis-criminals who should have kept their oaths and respected the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
AB2222 is a slap in the face of every single lawful, decent, longsuffering California gun owner who owns one. It's also a wake-up call -- and a call to arms -- for the millions of gun owners who don't. Because if you'll go after a gun that hasn't been used in a crime, you'll go after all of them -- and you won't get them all without a lot of people being killed.
Predictions based on Reality, while alarming, should be heeded. Ignoring the honest, heartfelt and repetitive pleas of lawful, decent gun owners is not only ill-advised, it's foolish. Decent gun owners do not want to have to defend their rights -- gun bans, ultimately, leave little alternative when such legislation is carried to its logical conclusion. The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been infringed enough. I pray you seek deep understanding of this fact at once.
Angel Shamaya
VIA FAX, TO:
Assembly Public Safety Committee Members
Carl Washington, Chair 916-319 2152; Jay La Suer, Vice Chair 916-319 2177; Richard L. Dickerson 916-319 2102; Fred Keeley 916-319 2127; Gil Cedillo 916-319 2146; Manny Diaz 916-319 2123; Jackie Goldberg 916-319 2145
FROM:
Angel Shamaya
Founder/Executive Director
KeepAndBearArms.com
Many members in California
RE: AB2222, Proposed Ban on .50 Caliber Target Rifles
April 14, 2002
Dear Mr. Washington, Mr. La Suer and Committee Members,
Though it's hard to fathom, rumor has it you are going to consider FACTS regarding AB2222 -- the proposed ban of the .50 caliber target rifle. Six (6) stark facts have been presented, by me, to Chairman Washington. If he does his job, he will share them with you when you confer on this outrageous bill, and if you are intellectually honest, you will work to kill this bill. Meanwhile, I'd now like to talk to you about your own personal interest in killing this bill.
Be advised that I'm going to be frank and cut to the chase -- I'm not the NRA.
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and gun bans like this are boxing good, decent people into corners that could eventually lead to assassinations of the people who make them happen. That's not a threat -- I don't live in your socialist Criminal Empowerment Zone of a once-decent state -- it's a PREDICTION based on three things:
1) HISTORY
The American Revolution began with gun prohibitionists coming to pick people's guns up in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Those British tyrants -- much like Senator Don Perata and Assemblyman Koretz, AB2222's Chief Mastermind -- made a fatal mistake by thinking that Americans would continue to follow the traintracks to tyranny's pits. The rest is indeed history -- a bloody, painful delivering history -- and history does indeed repeat itself.
2) NO LEGAL RECOURSE
Your Governor is on record with a blatant lie, saying the Second Amendment doesn't mean what it says. He's hedged his bet that the Supreme Court won't rule any time soon in favor of the truth, or he's so emboldened by legislative Rights Thieves and dumbed down, history-ignorant dolts that he just doesn't care that he's lying through his teeth. And your deceitful black-robed phonies in what some people call a "Supreme" Court have backed him up, their oaths amounting to so much toilet paper. So a gun owner in California cannot expect the courts, the police, or your legislature to stop the assault on his rights. That doesn't leave many options, but it does leave people thinking a lot about history, liberty, freedom, and war. These are natural thoughts for California gun owners to have at this time in the state's evolution. It's unfortunate, but that's just where you're at now. I don't mind being the bearer of that bad news, because I genuinely believe that the truth sets you free -- and you who are hearing a bill that bans yet more guns are well-advised to get with the truth.
3) CURRENT REALITY
Unbeknownst to many liberal-minded, bodyguarded communists living in California's upper class gated communities, the commoners among you are getting restless. And righteously pissed off. More every day. They've put up with a mountain of unconstitutional, un-American, illegal gun prohibitions, restrictions and prior restraints to the point of believing, in many cases, that their lack of legal recourse and the ongoing onslaught of anti-gun oppression will one day, maybe soon, turn them, by self-defensive necessity, into modern-day Redcoat Exterminators. Waiting periods for people who need a gun for self-defense because they are being stalked. Limits on handgun purchases that prohibit full enjoyment of the shooting sports. Registration of a constitutional right. Bans on guns because of their appearances. Bans on magazines that hold enough cartridges to fight off a team of home invaders as now frequent your state. Handgun "drop-test" requirements that removed some favored guns from the marketplace of lawful gun owners. And coming soon, competency requirement for handgun purchase -- to exercise a natural and constitutionally-protected right.
If you think gun owners are going to continue laying on their backs for this treasonous tyranny, you are living in a dream world. Going after a sporting rifle with which no crime has been committed, under a court system that offers no legal recourse, pretty much means there is no stopping the legislatures, or the police, but by force. Have you checked how many gun owners there are in your state? They outnumber pinstriped gun prohibitionists mightily, and their ire is truly justified -- and mounting.
If I was living in your state and I owned a .50 caliber rifle, I'd be thinking about revolting. Because if you banned my gun -- a gun that hasn't been used in crime, isn't used in crime, and poses no threat -- and threatened me with prison for merely possessing it, my desire to stay out of prison would trump my respect for the life of anyone who sought to put me there. And you've already banned numerous guns and are seeing widespread civil disobedience of these gun bans, too. There are many clues contained in that piece of information -- if indeed facts matter to you and yours.
If you are wise, you will go out and purchase a copy of a book called Unintended Consequences by John Ross. His book labors to show you where gun prohibition could and possibly will eventually lead this nation. Though written as a novel, I consider it a warning to anyone who'd say "yes" to a gun ban -- a prediction for the demise of anti-gun legis-criminals who should have kept their oaths and respected the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
AB2222 is a slap in the face of every single lawful, decent, longsuffering California gun owner who owns one. It's also a wake-up call -- and a call to arms -- for the millions of gun owners who don't. Because if you'll go after a gun that hasn't been used in a crime, you'll go after all of them -- and you won't get them all without a lot of people being killed.
Predictions based on Reality, while alarming, should be heeded. Ignoring the honest, heartfelt and repetitive pleas of lawful, decent gun owners is not only ill-advised, it's foolish. Decent gun owners do not want to have to defend their rights -- gun bans, ultimately, leave little alternative when such legislation is carried to its logical conclusion. The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been infringed enough. I pray you seek deep understanding of this fact at once.
Angel Shamaya
