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An Open Letter To President Obama From A Concerned Mother And Grandmother

Why My Mother Will Be Purchasing A Gun For Christmas

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  December 20th, 2012 at 02:00 PM  | 

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Below is a letter to President Obama drafted by my mother in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown, CT.

Dear Mr. President,

I am writing to share with you the sadness I am feeling today in light of all the tragedy and heartbreak we have all felt since last Friday. In fact, I have been feeling this for much longer than that.

My sadness began to swell when I first heard the term “kill Romney”, and has grown throughout the last months listening to your call for “revenge” when speaking to your constituents during your campaign, listening to you support the union members and Democrat officials calling for “blood” when they don’t get their way, and for standing silent while union thugs physically attack a news reporter while he witnessed the tearing down of a tent sheltering peaceful Americans, some in wheelchairs, simply expressing their right to free speech.

How can you expect to play the role of “consoler in chief” when you have fully supported the killing of more than a million children a year through abortion, even after live birth, some only guilty of being female? What effect did your rhetoric have on a young, mentally disturbed man in Newtown, CT?

As our leader, you more than anyone, should have realized by now that what we need is a national healing. The only way to healing is forgiveness. Though you frequently have your speechwriters include biblical passages in times of trouble, you speak of more regulation and law you plan to invoke rather than addressing the substance of our problems. Healing does not come from the rhetoric of politicians with their own agendas, but rather from prayer and realizing our own short-comings.

I have lived through a childhood of abuse, a marriage of abuse, the murder of family members and more, only maintaining my own physical and mental health through knowing the only way to inner peace is through forgiving those falling short of my expectations. That inner peace also provides me with a sense of security in an ever more dangerous world.

I have also forgiven you and pray for you to find the courage to lead this nation in a way that will provide for more safety and security for its citizens, as well as those around the world. I forgive you for standing by and watching as thousands of Syrians are killed for no good reason, as four Americans are killed in Libya while you ignore their security needs while representing their country, and while you hide behind executive privilege as over 200 Mexicans and an American border guard are murdered with weapons your justice department provided. In addition, I forgive you for allowing your justice department to imprison an American for expressing his right to free speech and for lying to the American people about an irrelevant video on the internet.

For the first time in my life I will buy a gun this week. I am a mother and grandmother, only wanting to live in peace, but realizing for the first time in my life that I may need a way to protect myself from a government that I have trusted for the last 59 years. While I have never asked for this government to provide for me in any way, I have assumed that it would keep me safe. This is no longer sensible.

I will continue to pray for you and your family everyday, as my taxes provide for your security. I will continue to pray daily for a nation that I see faltering and have faith that we can withstand another four years if we begin to humble ourselves and forgive.

I pray that you will start each of your days as our leader asking for forgiveness for your own shortfalls, and for the wisdom you lack in leadership.

Respectfully,

A Concerned Mother & Grandmother

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  • http://scipio62.livejournal.com/ scipio62

    An excellent letter.

    I’ll wager Obama or one of the minions of his who screen these things will file it in one of the WH round file. To Obama, your mother doesn’t exist.

  • irishgirl

    Powerful. Thanks for sharing.

  • Tbone

    If Momma ain’t black, Obama ain’t listening.

  • PowerToThePeople

    Say Amen to the women in your family who wrote this from me!

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Wow! Just wow! You need to promote your mother to front page writer.

    Wait . . . I think you just did.

  • fpete13527

    Great post Aaron. Please thank your Mom for sending this awesome letter.

  • Elizabeth C. Allen

    VERY well said! God bless you “A Concerned Mother & Grandmother” from another concerned mother ; ).

  • drjuluka

    Dear Concerned Mother & Grandmother,

    December 14 was a bad day in America, and since then over 100 more people have senselessly died in the country. You seem desperate to pin the blame on President Obama’s rhetoric. You attempt to create a false equivalence between sensible gun law and abortion. You toss in all the “subtle” Obama ad hominems conservative talk-show hosts have generated over the past few years, and your cleverness there only suggests to me that you are actually chuckling behind your facade of fear and heartbreak.

    You’re in on the joke. You know that what you write is entirely off topic, is almost incoherent, and deafens rational ears with hyperbole; all in an effort to obfuscate meaningful discussion about guns in this country.

    Get this straight, Ma’am. No one wants to prevent you from owning a gun. Got that? We have a Second Amendment that is supported by legal precedents galore.

    What we don’t have is a reasonable limit on the ballistic magnitude of weapons. What we don’t have, also, is a way of checking the backgrounds of the people who buy, sell, and trade weapons.

    Many of us out here in reader-land have finally found the cohesion and motivation to make change. Better get ready… the train is coming. Your bloated ridiculous arguments find no purchase in our ears anymore.

    Thanks for your time,

    A Father, Doctor & Gun Owner

  • PowerToThePeople

    Hey Mr so called doc, father, and gun owner, although I think you are lying as all liberals can not “open their mouths” without lying, we could care less if you perform Obama fellatio, just don’t do it here. We know you think yourself to be clever and far superior to us bums on the right, but the reality is that on your best day, your IQ closely resembles the IQ of the foul stuff we scrape from our shoes after walking our dogs in a dog park where people do not use those cute little scoops with bags.

  • drjuluka

    PTTP – I expected your insult, challenge, and snark.

    I do wonder, however, about the “far superior” remark. Where does that come from? In your mind, PTTP, where did the inkling of superiority originate in your reading of my simple direct response to Grandmother & Mother? Your attempt at spinning metaphor twixt IQ’s and dog feces tells me, basically, you have little or nothing to contribute to this argument, and probably to any other argument. If your words above represent the workings of your frontal lobe and not simply a mechanical reflex of your limbic system, let me be the first to tell you: You need a bit of training.

    Now go get angry and let your amygdala do some more talking. It’s entirely predictable.

    Meanwhile, I thinks it pretty clear that the NRA’s position espoused so feverishly yesterday by Mr. LaPierre was not well received in this country, except by people like you PTTP; and considering your penchant for reptilian-like thinking, you come to represent what most of us fear: an armed, pugnacious, & untethered human being… just what this world needs.

  • drjuluka

    It just occurred to me, PTTP, you must have been triggered by multiple paragraphs (with topic sentences) and the absence of grammatical errors.

  • Bill S

    Dear Doc: Goodbye, leftist.

  • Jack_Savage

    Dear Doc;

    You write:

    “What we don’t have is a reasonable limit on the ballistic magnitude of
    weapons.”

    An AR-15 is .223 caliber, about as small as it gets. All of the rifles I own are larger caliber, with much higher velocity, energy, and short and long range trajectory than that, yet you don’t mention about them. Which leads me to believe you don’t know what in the hell you are talking about.

    “What we don’t have, also, is a way of checking the backgrounds
    of the people who buy, sell, and trade weapons.”
    If you truly believe this, you are an idiot. If you don’t, then you are a liar. I choose both.

    The only train you are on is the Bonehead Express, and it ain’t headed in our direction. It’s last stop is the White House. Or Hawaii. Or the golf course. Wherever the idiot we just elected happens to be avoiding his duties today.

    Thanks for giving us an example of someone who insists on writing about things on which he is spectacularly unqualified,
    Jack Savage

    PS – And the train YOU need to get ready for is your second career at the Free Clinic once Obamacare devastates health care delivery in this country.