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OK, here is some suggested text which I encourage people to modify so all messages to Alexandria City Hall do not look and sound the same.
Dear Mayor Euille:
I hear that you have joined the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.
I want to let you know that this coalition is really an effort to subvert the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which declares in clear terms that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms. I ask that you withdraw your support. Will you withdraw from New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s gun grabbing coalition?
[OR - Please do not waste any time or money on this utopian effort to make the world a safer place. Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens make the community safer. I agree that criminals need to be denied access to guns, but just like you do not deny a Constitutionally protected right for all people just because a few may abuse it, please withdraw your support for this effort to deny guns to law-abiding people. Will you make all people register their computers or require a license because a few people use their computers for criminal purposes like passing child pornography over the Internet?
Look at New York City's gun laws which Mayor Bloomber is trying to export across the country. People cannot have guns there, except the police, yet crime is much higher there than here in Alexandria where law-abiding people can get guns. A black man in New York recently was killed by policewhen several undercover officers thought a man had a gun. As you know, none of the people killed or injured had a gun in that tragic incident. As a black man, I hope you can sympathize with the victims and their families.]
Guns per se are not illegal, so it is plain stupid to join a coalition against a legal product. Lock up criminals who use guns to hurt people or steal from people. New anti-gun laws are not needed.
For example, when a convicted felon is found to be in possession of a gun, they can be immediately arrested and prosecuted. When a person commits a felony with a gun, again, they can be arrested (if caught) and prosecuted. Do not try to take away guns from law-abiding citizens. You merely disarm them and make it easier for criminals to commit their heinous crimes. Don’t you agree?
Thank you and I hope to receive a reply from you soon.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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People may also want to send similar letters to Mayor Annie Mickens of Petersburg, VA and Mayor Paul Fraim of Norfolk.