From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: A Coffee-House Conversation with a REAL Nadja
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:15:17 GMT


Here is a letter you might want to edit slightly and send to your
congressional reps:
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                                        November 11, 1992
Senator Dan Coats
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-1403

Dear Senator Coats,

Thanks very  much for  sending me  a copy  of S.2922, intended to
address the  criminal act  of stalking other persons. I'm glad to
see that  you recognize  this problem  and are willing to address
it.

Fortunately, Indiana  residents can arm themselves with concealed
handguns for  self-defense against  attacks by stalkers and other
miscreants. However,  Indiana residents  travelling out  of state
(other than  in Michigan) must leave behind their only sure means
of self-protection  when they cross the state line since very few
states currently  honor concealed  carry permits granted by other
states.

The rapidly  increasing incidence  of hotel  muggings, throughway
shootings,  rest-stop  robberies  and  carjackings,  particularly
those directed  at  people  driving  vehicles  with  out-of-state
license plates,  underscores the need of interstate travellers to
be able  to legally  carry their  firearms (concealed)  for self-
defense against violent attack. Otherwise the situation currently
prevailing in  Florida,  where  criminals,  aware  that  1  in  7
Floridians have  armed themselves against attack and knowing that
out-of-state visitors  must  by  law  be  unarmed,  direct  their
attacks against  people driving  cars with  out-of-state  plates,
will continue to escalate

I urge you to amend the Brady Bill with a provision making state-
granted  concealed   carry  permits  valid  nationwide  whereever
concealed carry is not explicitly prohibited by federal law. Such
a measure  would be consistent with the treatment of out-of-state
drivers' licenses  at present  and is  supported by  Article  IV,
Section 1 of the Constitution, which states

"Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public
acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State."

and also by the 2nd and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
This  provision  would  provide  travellers  with  the  means  to
forstall criminal attacks which are guaranteed to take place when
no  other  effective  help  is  available  to  the  person  being
attacked.

I also recommend another amendment to the Brady Bill:

Persons who  have proof  that they  are being  stalked  (or  have
received  death  threats)  and  persons  who  have  an  order  of
protection should  be  able  to  purchase  firearms  without  any
waiting period  so that  they can  ensure their own safety absent
24-hour police protection.

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-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
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