Re: Gun Banner Wishes My Family to Be Murdered and Die Slowly

"Melissa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Gun Banner Wishes My Family to Be Murdered and Die Slowly
>
> from Angel Shamaya
> Founder/Executive Director
> KeepAndBearArms.com
>
> November 25, 2003
>
> This incredibly hateful email is worth sharing -- with full headers
> included -- to remind gun owners that gun banners want us and our
> families dead.


It probably reminds you that one of them does. Bit paranoid there?



His email address is included, should you wish to
> communicate directly with him. His letter has not been edited. Typos and
> misspelling are left intact. My response to him follows his very honest
> hatred.
>
> Note to Parents:  The person below who wishes my family murdered and to
> die slowly uses foul language. If this is a problem for you, be warned
> not to share it with your children. I discussed whether or not to
> publish it as is, with several people, and the majority said to let it
> fly for its authenticity.   --AS
>

And if your parents are gun owners children, this can always be settled with
violence. Just as long as you dont see anyone writing "fuck".

>     You are nothing more than sick fucks who represent everything that
>     is wrong with America (and pretty much the world).


Harsh but I can see his point so far.



You are every bit
>     a fanatic as the Sept 11th terrorists and I believe that people like
>     you are responsible when innocent people get killed by guns.
>
>     What possible reason can a normal guy have for owning an AK47? I
>     would love to hear your answer for that although I already can gues
>     it, "Blah blah 2nd ammendmant blah blah." Well how about not
>     reciting garbage like that and actually answer the dam question.



So far I have to say Im loving this guys work - can he come over to rec
martial arts?

>
>     I can only hope that your mother, wife and children get gunned down
>     and die slowly when they are walking the streets quietly minding
>     their own business. Maybe this will teach you a lesson you sick fuck.



That sucks.  He obviously has some rough edges but we can iron them out. The
principles displayed up to this point are very very good.


>
>     Jon Bellamy
>
> MY RESPONSE:
>
>     From: Angel Shamaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>     To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Subject: RESPONSE TO YOUR HATE MAIL
>     Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Date sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:57:35 -0700
>
>     Mr. Bellamy,
>
>     Thank you for taking the time to write to me. I can see that you
>     have very strong feelings about firearms. It sounds like you've
>     never had to use one to defend yourself. I have. Twice. Once, four
>     guys wanted to beat me, or worse, on my own street. I was guilty of
>     nothing more than taking a walk in quietude. The other time, some
>     junkie wanted to relieve me of the money I had just removed from an
>     ATM machine -- and probably wanted my vehicle, too.
>
>     In both instances, I never had to pull the trigger, and nobody got
>     hurt. For your information, people use firearms every day, all
>     across America, to defend their own lives.


Thats the key. People in the UK rarely need to.



 Look at the numerous
>     links to recent news stories on the right side of the following
>     page: http://KeepAndBearArms.com/OpSD/
>
>     You may wish to leave those people to the lions -- the predatory
>     criminals that roam America's street looking for easy prey -- but I
>     respect their rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of
>     happiness.


This is the blah blah bit.

>>     As to why I personally own military-pattern firearms, it is to
>     protect my home and my family against people who would do them harm.


And due to guns being so easily available, there are plenty of people able
to do you harm.



>     Take you, for example. Your email is taken as a threat and will be
>     reported to your ISP shortly. But your ISP isn't here to protect my
>     family from truly hateful and disturbed anti-Korean, anti-homeowner,
>     anti-family people such as yourself. That is my duty. And if you
>     ever came at me or my family with physical expressions of the
>     obvious violence in your murderous heart, I'd mow you down like
>     grass and lose no sleep over it.


Yes you would. Any time one person kills another, no matter how justified it
was, unless you are subhuman, you will lose sleep at the very least.


ad>
>     Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, and have a very nice
>     Thanksgiving. While you wish my wife, my infant son and my ailing
>     mother would be murdered and die slowly in pain, I hope and pray
>     that your family is safe and well and that if they ever come under
>     attack from a violent criminal there is someone there with a firearm
>     to protect them.
>
>     Angel Shamaya
>     Founder/Executive Director
>     KeepAndBearArms.com
>
> AFTER THOUGHTS:


Ok its grown old now.