An Open Letter To Senator Bill Nelson

Written by David DiCrescenzo on . Posted in Op-Ed

I am in receipt of your canned constituent letter and have several issues to address.

First and foremost, blaming the gun and claiming this was an attack on gay people or any other special interest group is a dangerous diversion from the real reason for that attack and so many other attacks by people like Mr. Mateen. Simply put; gay or not, and born in America or not; this man committed an act of terror in the name of Islam.  If you listened to the reports and witnesses, you would know that he was yelling “allahu akbar” during the shooting; he claimed allegiance to isis on the phone to the police, and the list of evidence goes on and on.  Yet, you and POTUS, and many other agenda driven “leaders” refuse to acknowledge this.  Had he said he was doing so in the name of Christ or Israel, you and the rest would have gladly accepted that notion.

Senator, this situation fits a saying I use a lot these days when discussing this horrific subject; “if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a Muslim.”  Now before you and anyone else gets your underwear all bunched up over that comment, not for a moment am I suggesting that all Muslims are jihad minded; however at the end of the day, this young man was one of an ever growing, countless number of young Muslims whose sole purpose has become the destruction of the west.  You know it, I know it, and anyone else with half a brain knows it.  

You and so many of your comrades in the House and Senate must stop your insane, politically 'incorrect’ game of Russian Roulette.  Instead of marching in lockstep with your leader, you need to remove the scales from your eyes and recognize the very real threat we face from this scourge.  Let me remind you that the first and most important job of any government is to protect its citizens.  The gun store owner in Orlando who didn’t sell him anything did in fact do everything he was supposed to do, AND contacted the authorities to alert them weeks before.  You and I both know that nothing was done because the shooter was a Muslim and the authorities were afraid to appear to be profiling.  

You and I also both know that a jihadi like Mr. Mateen isn’t real fussy about the method used.  Had he not been able to purchase a gun, he could have gone to any local hardware store and acquired everything he would have needed to build a bomb in his kitchen sink.  And given his “solidarity” with the Tsarnaev brothers of the Boston Marathon bombing infamy, he no doubt would have.  

The real question you and the rest in DC should be asking is why the hell was he or anyone like him ever taken off the FBI watch list in the first place…?!  Scarier still, you and they are opening the floodgates to “refugees” that will allow God only knows how many more such animals in to create havoc.

Your description of the weapon is typically absurd.  Except in the minds of those who share your political leanings and thinking, there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.”  That is a made up term used to scare uniformed people into believing the anti-gun agenda of most in your party and too many in the opposing party.  As you know, he did not use an AR-15 as you assert.  By the way Senator, the “AR” does not stand for “assault rifle,” or anything like that; it stands for “Armalite Rifle.”  You should know that; you’re welcome. 

Finally, you suggest that: “But having a system in place that alerts the FBI if someone they once investigated is suddenly trying to purchase multiple…”   Senator, has it escaped your notice that while your queen isn’t trying to buy anything, she IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION by the FBI and is constantly surrounded by the same types of weapons you would deny We the People access to…?!  I might add, given that she has accepted huge donations from terror supporting nations, I would suggest that not only should she never be allowed to be around guns, she also shouldn’t be allowed to run for the highest office in the land.  

Maybe you and your cronies should think about that Senator…!