Open letter from Ronnie Barrett **Read**

[denton]

The sole purpose of a personal firearm is to please its owner. It does not matter why it pleases its owner, as long as it does.

It might please its owner because it carries some history with it, like a Finnish M39, which the Finns used to successfully fight a Russian army 3X as large as their own.

It might please its owner because it is beautifully built.

It might please its owner because it allows him/her to hunt.

It might please its owner because it helps him/her feel more secure.

The burden is not on the gun owner to show that he/she has any practical use for the firearm, whatsoever. If it pleases the owner, that is enough.

We are witnessing the oldest political con game in the world: Invent a danger, so you can get yourself paid to protect people from the danger. If you can make the danger exist in the minds of enough people, you can make a nice living at it. It does not matter at all whether the danger really exists, nor does it matter whether the con artist can actually do anything about it, if it does. It only matters that enough people think it exists, and that the con artist can do something about it.