December 14, 2012
David Keene, President
National Rifle Association of America
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030
R.E.: Please reconsider your
support of assault weaponry and make American children safer.
Dear Mr. Keene,
I have begun many different letters to you over the last
week, knowing that my letter will surely be read by an exhausted member of
your staff who is putting letters into piles of “Supportive of NRA” and “Not
Supportive of NRA.”
Please put my letter
in the “Heartbroken and Scared” pile.
When I dropped off my children at preschool this morning it
was hard to get all the way back to my car without crying, but I am terribly
frightened for their safety, which is why I am writing to you.
I can’t make it any
less likely that a violent or mentally ill person will enter my children’s
school, or any school, with an assault rifle and an intent to kill, but YOU
CAN. You and the NRA can support reasonable changes to gun laws that will
make assault weapons—which no sportsman or civilian needs for any sane or
humane purpose—illegal.
Mr. Keene, public opinion is changing steadily in favor of a
sensible ban on assault weapons. More and more of your own members are
realizing that assault weapons can be made illegal without dissolving the
Second Amendment. I know that my beliefs about gun laws will
never match those of most NRA members, but I do believe that you and the
members of your organization have compassion and mercy. Many of them may
have sat in their cars this morning, as I did, having just left their children
in a school or day care center, and wondered how they would go on living
if their children were hurt or killed.
Please, please reconsider your position on assault weapons
and work with others toward a sensible ban. It is the right thing to do, for
everyone in this country.
Hopeful that you will hear me,
Kris
Mother of Audrey (5) and Calvin (3)
3 comments:
Beautifully expressed, Kris.
Yes, well said. We are happy that you are back home. We will continue to remember Jean, you, Janna and your uncle in our prayers.
kris, thank you for doing this. May I share your letter with others, including President Obama and legislative leaders in both Washingtons? You've expressed the thoughts and feelings so many of us cannot articulate but agree with on a visceral level. I will also write to the NRA. ~Love you and Audrey & Calvin very much, Nanu
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