By Brad Friedman on 5/31/2013, 4:19pm PT  

In case you can't read it, the text of the identical letters, believed to contain deadly ricin --- as sent last week to President Barack Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and to his gun safety organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (as well as to an Air Force Base and the CIA) from a Shreveport, LA post office --- follows below...

You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional God given right and I will excersice [sic] that right til [sic] the day I die. whats in the letter is nothing compared to what ive [sic] got planned for you.

Well, that tears it! I'm convinced by his water-tight argument. We must fight to ensure every American --- just like the guy who wrote the letter above --- is able to buy any weapon he likes, with as much ammo as he likes, with as many magazines, of any size, as he likes, with no oversight, tracking or background checks whatsoever! I see no down side.

It is, after all, a "constitutional God given right" and who are we to put limits on what God wants (and wrote directly into our Constitution)?

Sure, laugh now. But, to paraphrase, "First they came for the attempted assassins," etc...

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Rachel Maddow's quick take on the above, and a spate of similar incidents of late, follows below...


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