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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CG6468 on January 04, 2013, 02:28:03 PM
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A Message From The Warrior Class To Senator Feinstein On Her Gun Control Bill
Robert Johnson|Jan. 3, 2013, 5:44 AM|33,654|223
The U.S. is awash in well-trained warriors, fresh from combat while it also faces off on gun control issues.
That includes more than 5 million Post 9/11 vets who may not take lightly any new gun-control laws. Those millions have been raised on weapons and felt how important firearms can be. It's what they're taught.
Any servicemember knows their mission is to kill people, in the end, during conflicts, it's why we're serving.
Even in my "soft," non-infantry unit, a cadence we exercised to included a line, "Blood, blood, bright red blood it makes the green grass grow." The warrior ethos is kneaded into the psyche from day one.
Just a bit of context from a former servicemember who never relied on a series of weapons for immediate survival or survival of my friends. From someone who never developed relationships with the tools of the battlefield; who never slaved to keep a weapon performing endlessly and without question. Someone who never exercised the profound care and diligence that requires in the harsh gritty environments of Iraq and Afghanistan.
An eight-year Marine veteran named Joshua Boston feels very strongly about California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's plan to require him to register his assault rifle and ban him from selling or buying any more. Joshua would likely have been one of the guys who developed those relationships with his weapons.
The letter follows Joshua's posting to CNN's iReport:
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We, the people, deserve better than you.
One Pissed Off Marine (http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-joshua-boston-sen-feinstein-gun-control-legislation-california-cnn-ireport-2013-1#ixzz2H2ZCbX5P)
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The motto should be, as Charlton Heston stated so well, "...from my cold, dead hand."