Dear Mr. President,

Stop…just stop already. Stop with the lies. Stop twisting statistics to fit your agenda. Tell the American people the truth. Give them all the facts, not just the things you want them to hear. Stop going on TV every time someone gets shot  and pretending that the problem is with guns. Tell them the truth. Tell them the real reason you want to create more gun laws.

In your most recent video statement you claim that the US has an epidemic of gun violence, but I am not sure you fully understand that word. An epidemic is defined as a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon. The gun violence in the is country is certainly not sudden, in fact the rate of all violent crime in the US has continued to decrease over the last 25 years, even though the rate of gun ownership continues to increase.

In this same speech you ask congress to do something, anything to protect our kids from gun violence. So I have decided to give to you with a few suggestions for some common sense gun laws that can be implemented that would guarantee a reduction in not only gun violence, but overall violent crime. Do us all a favor and take this into consideration, you just might accomplish something worth while in your Eight years as POTUS.

1. Create a Federal Concealed Weapons License. This license would allow law abiding citizens to carry their weapons concealed anywhere in the United States. It is a proven fact that violent crime is reduced in areas with a high population of gun ownership per capita. In order to receive a Federal Concealed Weapons Permit, people would be required to undergo extensive firearms training that would include the following. Firearm safety training, use of deadly force instruction, gun law instruction, as well as hands on qualifications at a gun range and live fire exercises. These requirements along with an extensive criminal and mental health background check including mandatory refresher training to keep your license active. This will be a Shall Issue Permit to anyone who meets these qualifications.
2. Implement a Federal Law removing and banning GUN FREE ZONES. Gun free zones are the most common location of mass shooting. Please do the research and look at all of the Mass Shootings over the past 10 years. Almost all of them have occurred in Gun Free Zones. Law abiding citizens abide by the law. If the law says they are not allowed to carry a gun somewhere they follow the rules. This ties the hands of honest citizens that could potentially deter or stop a criminal who decides not to follow the Gun Free Zone law. Gun free zones do not keep people safe. FACT!!
3. Bring Firearm training back into our public schools. We can prevent accidental shootings by children and teens if we educate them. Also, many current gun owners did not receive proper gun safety training when they were young because public school firearm training was phased out in the 60’s. This lack of knowledge and training leaves easy access to firearms in the reach of children. Creating laws to punish people for improper handling and storage or forcing people to store their guns in a certain way, is not a solution to the problem, it is simply trying to fix something that can be avoided with training and education. We teach sexual Education in our schools, and because of this we help prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in teenagers and young adults. We teach our kids about the dangers of drugs and alcohol in school. This information and education carries on into adulthood.The same concept will and has work with firearms.
4.  Increase the penalty for using a gun in the act of a violent crime. I am not sure if you know this but prison is not a good enough deterrent to stop violent criminals. These people need to be threatened with something worse. Prison is like a free ride to live out the rest of their miserable, worthless lives…we need to take that away from them. If they take the life of another person in the act of a violent crime, we should take away their life. PERIOD!! Gun, knife, fists…it really is all the same. The punishment should fit the crime.

These are all common sense gun laws. I keep hearing you use that term, but you seem to lack it. Creating more laws will only restrict the freedom of law abiding citizens…that is not common sense. You, of all people, know the constitution, you taught constitutional law in college. You are a very smart man. I have to believe this to be a fact, I need to believe that we would not put a person in power leading our country that does not understand simple concepts like this. Stop being a politician for a minute and start being an American. Use some real common sense. Like this…

Common Sense…When you create laws to stop bad people from doing bad things, you remove the rights and freedoms of law abiding citizens. In no way, none what so ever, will creating more gun laws prevent criminals from breaking those laws. In fact, all of these proposed gun laws would not have prevented ANY of the recent mass shootings in our country.

Common Sense…If someone wants to break the law they will. With over 310 million civilian firearms in America (this is a very low estimate in my opinion). You cant and wont ever stop criminals from getting their hands on one, even if you were able to ban them entirely. Especially when we live in a country with open borders. Look how well the war on drugs is going for example.

Common Sense…Limiting magazine ammunition capacity and banning certain semi automatic rifles will not reduce gun violence. The very weapons your administration would like to ban (so called assault rifles) have been used in less violent crimes and used to kill less people every year than people who have been killed with blunt objects. FACT!! A gun is a tool like any other.

Common Sense…Firearms are near the bottom of the list when it comes to preventable deaths in the US. If you really care about the lives of our citizens you would focus on the real issues like our Health Care system. So far you have only made that worse for the majority of America!

So again I ask you to please STOP. Stop with the outright lies. Stop with the half truths. Most Americans have been slowly brainwashed over the last few decades into believing what politicians and the corporate owned media tell them. They are too lazy to research these issues for them selves. They believe you when you speak, they listen…so tell them the truth, be a man, grow a pair. If you want to be remembered and respected as a former leader of the free world…TELL THE TRUTH!!

Sincerely,

Dick

P.S. The above image speaks for itself…Common Sense!!