By Steve McGourty

June 21, 1996

This letter is in response to the imagineer of Freedom County and staunch anti-gun control promoter Mr. David Guadalupe and his letter of the 13th appropriately titled "Time for Another Visit." It may surprise him that I am not the only liberal who thinks that the government is trying to go too far on gun control. It is in the Constitution that we have the right to bear arms (as I read it, this is in reference to being part of a well regulated militia, but ignoring that nit...). The right to own a gun should never be revoked. It is a personal right that the government is infringing on, thus diminishing our personal freedom.

If Mr. Guadalupe would take his eye out of the gun sight long enough to read this letter I am sure he would agree that any governmental attempt to abate our personal freedom should be resisted by himself and our elected officials. Yet he an other extremist of his ilk are blindly supporting radical legislators who have proudly announced that they would take our rights away. If he could see though the fog of gun powder in his mind he would have to admit that there are many ways in which the Dole/Gingrich/Buchanan conservatives are sticking their legislative noses into our bedrooms, closets, refrigerators, backyards and minds -- where they do not belong. The most obvious example of radical Republican double-talk is that they would abolish the right for a person to have an abortion, a very personal freedom that the government has no right to involve itself in. The majority party in Congress and other powerful business and religious forces are scheming to impose their collective will against "We the people" to live life as we would choose. If he were a rational and consistent thinker, he would surely be just as outraged by these intrusions as I am.

By the way, just as he finds the label of Nazi unsuitable, it is equally ludicrous for him to label all Democrats as Socialists. The ease with which he threatens other's lives is vile. He is unfortunately, a clear example of the decline of civilized humanity. Is his argument so weak that he must kill to get his point across?

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