[normanvin]

i sent this to everyone on the list and then some. i am no letter writer but i think the point comes across.

It is my understanding that Governor Rendell plans to take an
unprecedented step and personally attend Tuesday’s PA House Judiciary
Committee meeting to attack gun owners and our constitutional freedoms
by forcing bad legislation (HB 18, HB 22, and HB 29) out of committee.
This is another attempt to regulate the honest man out of his right to
own and use firearms to protect himself. this is done under the guise of
"if we take the guns away the crime rate will go down". i believe there is
adequate proof to the contrary. every time a country or state limits the
use of firearms the crime rate does indeed not go down.

i believe that there are many laws on the books that are designed to
curtail crime. It seems that the laws are not being used as they were
designed. if you kill someone you can get a life sentence and be out in
5 years. if you commit a crime with a gun it is a mandatory 5 year
sentence above any other charges. these laws are just not being enforced.

Yet it makes more sense to make more laws "that will only hurt the
honest man" that will fall to the way side as others in the past.

If a criminal wants to procure a firearm he or she will not be going
through the channels that the honest man will be using. he will be going
down to the street corner and buy whatever he or she needs, no paper
work no instant check no carry permit. Than he or she will be hunting
for the honest people that the assembly of lawmakers has put out on the
streets unable to protect themselves from the bad guys.

In the future please keep in mind that I will be counted as one of the
voters who can not and will not vote for any politician who votes to
reduce my rights to protect what is mine.


thank you