LETTER: Felon thanks the NRA

[Robb]

As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I'd like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks.

Upon release in a few years from my current federal sentence on bank robbery and weapons charges, I fully anticipate being able to stop at a gun show on my way home to Connecticut — where new laws have made it nearly impossible for a felon to readily purchase guns or ammunition — in order to buy some with which to resume my criminal activities.

And so, a heartfelt thank you to the NRA and all those members of Congress voting with them. I, along with tens of thousands of other criminals, couldn't do what we do without you. 

Read More: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/letters/hcrs-15241hc--20130605,0,4878261.story

[dlwickham]

1. do you want me to send you a link to the definition of sarcasm?

[Tx4obama]

2. This is a legit letter? There's a satire site DailyCurrant.org - But the OP link is The Courant.com

[Robb]

3. Yup. Although Gary William Bornman can most charitably be called

...a "character."

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UaxIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YwENAAAAIBAJ&pg=2115,5408880&dq=gary+william+bornman&hl=en

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. From ThinkProgress.org

"Gary W. Bornman, a felon being held in a federal “Supermax” prison in Colorado, penned an op-ed on Thursday thanking the National Rifle Association for killing a bipartisan gun bill to expand background checks earlier this year. Bornman, who is serving a 20-year sentence for bank robbery, wrote to the Hartford Courant explaining how easy it would be for him to get a gun even though he is legally banned from buying one:"

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/10/2130331/felon-in-maximum-security-prison-thanks-the-nra-for-making-it-easy-for-him-to-get-a-gun/

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. It doesn't need to be real to be true. It'd be ignored today though. It's Patriot Act Day!

[Robb]

5. That's the beauty of it, though, the inmate's on the level.

Started his "career" in Leavenworth IIRC.