The Sons of Liberty II

Address for Congressman Mike Ross, Democrat, Ark.

Please send Mike ross a show of support for his tireless efforts in leading the DEAFEAT of the 111^th Congresses’ attempt to re-enact the “assault” weapons ban. This type of action needs to be rewarded. His Office address in Prescott is as follows…..Please type up your own thoughts of support for this action and send them to him via USPS.

221 West Main Street
Prescott, AR 71857
(870) 887-6787
Below is also a list of all of the Democrats he lead to fight against this ban incase you would like to send them a note as well. We may not agree with some of these folks on every issue, but when they’re right they’re right and we must support those decisions loudly.

Text of Mike Ross's letter:

Dear Attorney General Holder:

As strong supporters of the Second Amendment, we were very concerned to see your recent remarks suggesting that the administration will push for the reinstatement of the 1994 ban on "assault weapons" and ammunition magazines.

We believe that this ban was ineffective during the 10 years it was law, and would oppose its reenactment. Crime began falling before the ban was passed in 1994, and continued falling during and after the ban. The last time the murder rate was at its current level was more than forty years ago.

Even the Urban Institute study of the ban's effectiveness mandated by the 103rd Congress found that it could only have a limited effect because "the banned weapons and magazines were never used in more than a modest fraction of all gun murders."

It is hard to believe the ban would be any more effective in controlling crime by well-funded international drug traffickers, who regularly use grenade launchers, anti-tank rockets and other weapons that aer not available on the civilian market in the United States.

The gun control community as intentionally misled many Americans into believing that these weapons are fully automatic machine guns. They are not. these firearms fire one sot for every pull of the trigger. Some of the guns that would be banned under proposed bills have been around for more than 70 years, and are often passed down from generation to generation.

Many of our constituents lawfully own and use these firearms and ammunition magazines that would be affected by the new ban. Indeed, these are commonly owned firearms through the country. Law-abiding Americans use these guns for all the same reasons they use any other kind of gun--competitive shooting, hunting, and defending their homes and families.

Our constituents also have very real and serious problems that we in Congress urgently need to address. People are worried about keeping their jobs, paying for their families' health care, educating their children, and retiring with the kind of security their parents and grandparents enjoyed. A long and divisive fight over a gun control issue will only distract us from giving these more important issues the attention they deserve.

Again, we would actively oppose any effort to reinstate the 1994 ban, or to pass any similar law. We urge you to abandon this initiative and to focus instead on effective law enforcement strategies to enforce our current laws against violent criminals and drug traffickers.

List of Democratic Congressmen against the assault weapons ban:

1. Mike Ross (D-AR)
2. Tim Holden (D-PA)
3. Jerry Costello (D-IL)
4. Jim Matheson (D-UT)
5. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
6. John Dingell (D-MI)
7. Marion Berry (D-AR)
8. Nick Rahall (D-WV)
9. Gene Green (D-TX)
10. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
11. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
12. Gene Taylor (D-MS)
13. Bart Stupak (D-MI)
14. Collin Peterson (D-MN)
15. Harry Teague (D-NM)
16. John Tanner (D-TN)
17. Allen Boyd (D-FL)
18. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA)
19. Eric Massa (D-NY)
20. Steve Kagen, M.D. (D-WI)
21. Betsy Markey (D-CO)
22. Paul Hodes (D-NH)
23. Ron Kind (D-WI)
24. Peter Welch (D-VT)
25. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
26. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
27. Walt Minnick (D-ID)
28. John Boccieri (D-OH)
29. Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
30. Tom Perriello (D-VA)
31. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
32. Ben Chandler (D-KY)
33. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
34. Debbie Halvorson (D-IL)
35. Travis Childers (D-MS)
36. Tim Walz (D-MN)
37. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
38. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
39. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
40. Rick Boucher (D-VA)
41. Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
42. John Murtha (D-PA)
43. Bart Gordon (D-TN)
44. Zach Space (D-OH)
45. Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
46. Lincoln Davis (D-TN)
47. Artur Davis (D-AL)
48. Charlie Melancon (D-LA)
49. John Barrow (D-GA)
50. Christopher Carney (D-PA)
51. Dan Boren (D-OK)
52. Parker Griffith (D-AL)
53. Charlie Wilson (D-OH)
54. Heath Shuler (D-NC)
55. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
56. Jim Marshall (D-GA)
57. Jason Altmire (D-PA)
58. Larry Kissell (D-NC)
59. John Salazar (D-CO)
60. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN)
61. Frank Kratovil (D-MD)
62. Glenn Nye (D-VA)
63. Bobby Bright (D-AL)
64. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ)

 Due to space restrictions and time limitatiions, We were not able to develop form letters for every issue. Please pick some or all of the following and type your personal comments in a letter to our non-representatives, as it would seem to be in most cases. Thank you once again.

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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1388

Food safety modernization act of 2009 bad legislation. This bill puts us on a slippery slope of becoming totaly dependent on gigantic international food processors and agricultural growers for our very life giving sustenance. The potential for food supply monopoly exist strongly and it 's language is sufficiently vague to allow for some one to rule that the regulatory agencys can apply the same standards to individuals growing food in a backyard garden as is applied to commercial food producers. This would effectivly make it immpossible for you to produce your own food supply,leaving you dependent upon gov. and multinational corporations for your food. And with no money due to economic policies destined to produce mass collapse and starvation, this would be a life and death matter.

The cyber security act of 2009

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-773

This bill pending is an attempt to control the internets’ free flow of information under the guise of security from cyber attack. All well and good if you could trust those who control it. It can result in political speech being censored and web sites being shut down. This must be stopped in its’ tracks.

“Fairness” doctrine This is a bill to do an end run around the first amendment to silence political free speech that does not comport with opposing viewpoints. Oppose any legislation that alters free choice in free speech or news outlet sources.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s103-333&tab=summary

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512422,00.html