Someone needs to teach uninformed teachers like Needler some common sense
“To buy a gun, you need 3 letters of recommendation: One from a family member, one from a friend, and one from a co-worker. If your family doesn’t trust you, you have no friends, and your co-workers don’t know you well enough to trust you, then you shouldn’t be able to own a gun.”
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“Based on the response it’s gotten, the vast majority has been supportive and it sounds like a lot of other people would also like to see some changes happen. If I’ve done something that helps others get involved, then I think it’s for the better.
Source: http://www.katu.com/news/local/Reynolds-High-School-teacher-calling-for-stricter-gun-control-laws-263115581.html
1. The majority DOES NOT RULE when it comes to constitutional issues. Example: Most Americans oppose flag burning, the First Amendment supports it.
2. What about orphans? Who gives them a letter of recommendation?
3. What about anti-social people, shy people, and those who find themselves without friends?
4. Co-workers? What about the unemployed and/or those who are retired?
5. What about those who work for anti-gun bosses? What about bosses who think you’re threatening them just by telling them you want to buy a gun? Liberals are the ones that demand we be politically correct, specially at work, so this idea violates the very thing they preach.
6. What about those of us who do have friends, family and coworkers but they are unwilling or unable to write those letters?
7. What about those who use fraud to get a letter of recommendation? On Fiverr you can get a letter of recommendation, a professional work reference, even someone who will pick up the phone and pretend to be your reference for five dollars.
8. Will the people who gave the recommendation get in trouble if the gun owner commits a crime? Will they be liable?
Needler’s stupid ideas won’t stop the committed gun buyer, but they will harass law-abiding gun owners that did NOTHING to deserve the extra scrutiny.
Sorry Needler, you may need a letter of recommendation to get a teaching job, but I don’t need a letter of recommendation to exercise my rights.