I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. 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.
You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and 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 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.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted, Joshua Boston Cpl, United States Marine Corps 2004-2012
Joshua, I am glad there a few good men like you. Joshua 1:9 has been one of my favorite verses since I was a child.
Just FYI, the picture of the soldier is not the “Joshua Boston” who wrote the note to Feinstein. No less precious…..
That is right, all of our military men and women are precious in my sight.
Joshua’s sentiments are mine exactly. I won’t register any of my guns. And I’ll never allow anyone to enter my home and search for them. Period.
‘Molon Labe’
WOOT WOOT!!!
Well stated
I’m just hoping for a minor lottery win to purchase more so if they are banned, I can provide good people with weapons.
Ooo-Rah!
Yes, Marines can be eloquent, without the Eff-bomb!
It may or may not have been more eloquent with a few tastefully placed eff-bombs.
I don’t think there is such a thing as a “tastefully placed” eff-bomb. It would be a distraction from the message. To me, any person who uses public profanity is unable or unwilling to express himself clearly and eloquently.
I should have tastefully placed an emoticon–most likely the winky one–I wasn’t being serious.
Sorry – it definitely wasn’t obvious.
Mea culpa.
That’s exactly what my mother taught me, as well: that such profanity is merely a sign of insufficient intelligence to articulate oneself more appropriately.
I agree… but in the Corps, that word was euphemistically referred to in more genteel times as “the verb”. That word has probably indirectly killed more Commies than socialist medicine. Only a Marine can invoke invective with that much power and effect.
Hi, Elvis! Happy New Year. How ya doin’?
Hey, toots… Here’s wishing that 2013 is better than the last couple of years. I’ll be fine when I get some desert time under my belt, real soon. Nothing like a cold, clear, full-moon night in the high deserts of west Texas.
Thank you for your service Corporal Joshua Boston.
Semper Fi!
Tino
How do we help this go “Viral”???????
Like Cpl. Boston, I have drawn my line and it is not in sand.
We need a lot of people to feel the same way, especially at the local government and law enforcement community level. My fear is that there are too many people that would obey any and all laws passed, regardless of content. Congress and Obama can not enforce anything…that takes the willingness of local law enforcement, national guard, sheriffs, mayors, etc, etc. We all know that the media will be against gun rights, so we are already at a disadvantage. Somehow, we need to start the ground work.
This is going to be a county by county state by state fight. Thank God for the 6th amendment
Why the sixth amendment?
The second amendment say “shall not be infringed”. To me that means both Federal and State/Local.
The 6th amendment addresses criminal prosecutions..
The 10th says…the powers not delegated…are reserved to the States or to the people..
I appreciate it, Coast, but I knew that. You didn’t mention any amendment in the intial comment to which canadacan responded, and his mention of the sixth amendment without context caught my attention.
Not only is government taking our rights away, but so are our employers. Check this out – a hospital here in Indiana has fired 6 nurses along with some other employees for refusing to get an influenza immunization injected into their bodies! We allow our patients to refuse, but we can’t refuse??
Story here:
http://www.wxii12.com/news/health/Nurses-fired-for-refusing-flu-shot/-/9677622/17982966/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/duk469z/-/index.html
Given what happened in Germany – I agree with this brave person. The “liberals” (supposedly for the “Bill of Rights”) – will in fact DESTROY THE BILL OF RIGHTS BY REMOVING THE 2ND AMENDMENT. Let us hope that never happens.
Gotta figure that Congress critter action on gun rights legislation will mirror how admirably they’ve handled the “fiscal cliff”. In other words, if we leave it to them to protect our 2nd Amendment rights…………..we’re screwed.
¿Armas para que?
God Bless you, Cpl. Boston!
Not trying to throw cold water on our parade, but here is some of the leadership that we have at a State level…of course it is Illinois.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/01/Illinois-Set-to-Ramp-Up-Extreme-Gun-Banning-Law
They probably know what’s best. After all, Chicago is one of the most gun-controlled areas in the US, and they had 440 school-age children shot last year and 500 homicides in 2012 (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/24/Chicago-Is-Gun-Control-Capital-Of-U-S-Yet-Over-440-School-Age-Children-Shot-There-in-2012).
In 2008,
[T]he United States overall experienced 49.6 crimes per square mile, but Chicago witnessed 766 crimes per square mile.
(http://karendecoster.com/the-chicago-crime-racket.html)
I don’t think that Chicago, or Illinois, is the model to follow (at least hopefully, not a lot of other states will follow in making such legislation). I don’t know what’s going to happen in Illinois, but more control, and less freedom, is not the answer.
The second admendment is our right to carry permit. Every other law that limits this is unconstitutional. We should not have to pay additional fees or get extra permits to carry. Amend the constitution if you wish but until you do we should not have to restict our gun ownership in any manner. No one has a moral right to tell you that you cannot protect yourself and your family. The right to life is god given.
Concealed carry is an extremly valueable tool for self protection. Even with open carry the bad guy has information and can target you first. With concealed carry nobody knows who is armed and it is the only thing that has been shown to reduce shootings and the number of casualities when a shooting does occur. Shooters are sometimes crazy but they are not stupid. Problem can be solved overnight. No gun free zones allowed and unrestricted concealed carry. Done.
Most gun violence is occuring in small urban areas where they have disarmed normal citizens and also have lenient treatment of crimminals. So the progressives solution is to let dangerous people back out on the street and disarms their victims. Great plan. No wonder the inner cities are the killing fields. Most of the homicide is black on black so if you are lenient on the crimminals it just means that you are going soft on people who are killing black people. Progressives are saying that too many black men are in jail but what about their victims. If black people ever realize what these liberal policies have done to their culture and race it will be a huge turning point and will destroy the Democratic party. Between abortion, single parent homes and homicide the black race is being devastated and it breaks my heart. None of these problems are caused by white people or racism but are cause by the liberal policies that blacks have embraced. I believe history will show this period to be a era of carnage on a particular race by a political party that wished do develop a permanent voting block and did not give a damm what they did to these people.
Very well said…and I totally agree.
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The text of the second amendment does not say anything with regard to a “permit” or to regulations concerning who can and cannot bear arms. It seems contradictory to have to get permission from the government to do something that “shall not be abridged.”
I agree that “gun free zones” can be responsible for bringing about the opposite of the intentions of those who establish them, but a blanket law that dictates that one cannot do something nonviolent with his property is an invasion of his property rights. I’d much rather favor a law that repeals all existing “gun free zones” and allows people to peaceably exercise their rights over their property.
You are right we should not have to ask permission or pay a fee to the government to own or carry a gun.
I told that to a state senator who was trying to win my support by telling me he was for open carry before it passed. That’s nice and all and it’s good that we legislators who want to give us more rights, but it sure would be nice if we had a few legislators who understood we were already given those rights by God and if government had not been busy denying us those rights there would be no need for an open carry bill. In essence you’re still denying us rights by passing such a bill. He went from looking at me like he was totally confused, to kind of ticked because I didn’t praise him to sputtering something about he supported the 2nd amendment to wishing me a good day. I wished him a good day as well and told him to read the 2nd amendment and get back to me on where the right to bear arms came with strings attached. He walked off shaking his head.
I think that is going to start being my response to all of them that come crawling around, thank you for wanting to give me a right God already gave me.
However, if they want to continue playing that game and ignoring what the constitution says, maybe we should ignore the “right” part and instead make it mandatory everyone should own a gun. They would squeal like pigs if a bill like that had a snowball’s chance in hell of passing.
Rock n’ Roll!
You’d think surely all active, reserve, retired, or honorably discharged military personnel would have the right (duty?) to conceal carry.
God please bless this American hero!
Cpl Boston’s letter just discussed on Fox & Friend, “gone viral”
Mr. Boston. It’d be an honor to shake your hand, sir. We’ll done, sir.
The last bastion of freedom shall be the armed citizen. The likes of Mr. Boston shall lead the willing and the free, to once again defeat tyranny and oppression..
WOW!!! you just can’t handle dissenting opinion…what a bs artist you must be…Merica!! unbelievable..why not just admit you’re all a bunch of gutless cowards, afraid of your own shadow and even more afraid of diversity, progress, and modern times…lol…the more people like you get pissed off the more I’m convinced our country is moving in the right direction