From: kossack@owlnet.rice.edu (Jordan Marc Kossack)
Subject: Re: NRA Evaluation of Bush and Clinton
Reply-To: kossack@qvi.com
Organization: Draft Dodgers for Quayle and Clinton 
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:55:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.190630.28538@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
-
-  The latest NRA-PVF (Political Victory Fund) letter has a comparison of where
-  Bush and Clinton stand in regards to the NRA and its concerns. Here it is:
            [ Nifty little chart deleted - see original article ]  

	Well, I received one of these in the mail this afternoon and 
   it kind of annoyed me.  After reading the comment wrt Libertarian 
   candidates in the NRA "grades" this week, I was hoping that the 
   NRA wouldn't support George "Oathbreaker" Bush this year, either 
   endorsing a candidate who actually believes in RKBA or, much more 
   likely, endorsing neither Bush nor Clinton.  To make matters worse, 
   a little yellow insert advises one not to "waste" ones vote on a 
   protest candidate.  Sigh.  Crap like this (aka "caving") reminds 
   me why I'm still an annual member - if they keep it up, I'll just 
   fail to renew.  Is this the NEW NRA ???  

	Anyway, here's what I'm dropping in the mail (with my copy 
   of the Presidential Support Test) tomorrow morning:  


                                                  8 October 1992  
James Jay Baker
NRA Political Victory Fund   
1600 Rhode Island Avenue, NW 
The District of Columbia 

Dear Mr. Baker,  

Thank you for the Presidential Support Test.  

Although I am politically active, I have made it a personal policy to   
not make contributions to PACs of any kind, even those as deserving as 
NRA-PVC.  I prefer to donate my time, and monies where appropriate, to 
individual candidates, rather than permit a PAC to spend my money to 
support candidates running in some other state.  Further, not being a 
single issue voter, at times I find myself voting for a candidate who 
may not be as fervent a supporter of the Second Amendment as his/her  
opponent, but whose stance on other issues is markedly better.  In such 
a case, contributions to NRA-PVF could hurt the candidate I prefer.  

With regard to the Presidential election, I can not, in good conscience, 
vote to re-elect President Bush.  To be quite honest, I can no longer 
trust him to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United  
States.  Bush is responsible for the semi-auto import ban and has 
expressed a willingness to support the Brady Bill if combined with other 
anti-Bill-of-Rights legislation (the so-called crime bill) that he favors.  
In short, he is no friend of law-abiding gun owners.  Since the Republican   
Party seems unwilling to support a pro-RKBA presidential candidate, I must   
either vote for an anti-civil-rights candidate or "waste [my] vote by 
voting for a protest candidate" - I know what my conscience demands. 

Fortunately, I have the opportunity to help elect a Bush-proof Congress.  

                                                  Sincerely, 
                                                  Jordan M Kossack  

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