First Friday of a New Year
January 1st, 2010 . by Cary
Well, it didn’t take very long for yesterday’s e-mail to Mayor Richard Ward to bring out hizzoner’s best: (please note that I’ve altered the e-mail addresses for anti-spam reasons)
from Richard Ward (ward.richardATcharterDOTnet)
to Cary Cartter (carycartterATgmailDOTcom)
date Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 07:58
subject Re: MAIG – again!
mailed-by charter.nethide details 07:58 (2 hours ago)
Damn, Cary, you made me kinda sorry I named my son after you. (the Cary part)
You ask me what we have accomplished. I think my personal big accomplishment has been to make many folks better understand what my goals are. Simply stated that is to make Hurst a safer place to live.
Also, MAIG is now up to about 550 members even though the NRA scared about 50 away. It is a very long and hard battle to get things moving with the Washington crowd. That is a far cry from the four million (if that is a true figure) members of the NRA. But…we have certainly not introduced nor tried to introduce any legislation that would prevent you being able to buy any gun that you need to buy to serve you on a daily or lifetime basis.
I wish you would take the time to ask the NRA to send you a financial statement and the number of members they have. I promise you will never get it. This is the most secretive bunch you will ever encounter. MAIG list all of their members regularly and invites your questions.
So… I am going to sign off one more time with my best wishes to you and yours for a great 2010.
Richard Ward
Mayor
That’s quite the claim – making Hurst a safer place to live. Almost like the appearance of MAIG has magically rendered Hurst, Texas immune to the problems of the rest of the world. Wait, there’s more:
from Richard Ward (ward.richardATcharterDOTnet)
to Cary Cartter (carycartterATgmailDOTcom)
date Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 07:59
subject Re: MAIG – again!
mailed-by charter.nethide details 07:59 (2 hours ago)
By the way, am I the two bit Mayor you are talking about? 🙂
… and isn’t he so cute and clueless? Wait wait wait – one more, and then my reply, OK?
from Richard Ward (ward.richardATcharterDOTnet)
to Cary Cartter (carycartterATgmailDOTcom)
date Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 08:01
subject Re: MAIG – again!
mailed-by charter.nethide details 08:01 (2 hours ago)
And one more thing, where do you live? I know it is not Hurst. See, another secret.
Show of hands, please – how many of you have heard me refer to my home as Glendale, Arizona? Thank you. My reply:
from Cary Cartter (carycartterATgmailDOTcom)
to Richard Ward (ward.richardATcharterDOTnet)
date Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:51
subject Re: MAIG – again!
mailed-by gmail.comhide details 10:51 (6 minutes ago)
Why are you sorry you named your son Cary? Does he have the same habit of asking you questions you won’t answer?
I don’t give a rip about the NRA – believe it or not, I don’t belong to that organization. My question to you is, and remains, WHY DOES MAIG EXIST?
Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Are there folks out there on the legal side of the coin who are FOR illegal guns? That would be news to me.
How has MAIG made Hurst, Texas a safer place to live? Has it REMOVED guns from criminals hands? Nope – because criminals don’t answer pesky questionnaires and reply to official inquiries, and they certainly don’t let people tell them not to break the law. They are criminals, after all.
Thank you for the best wishes. I would like to extend the same to you and yours.
Yes, you are the two-bit mayor I referred to.
While where I live remains inconsequential to this conversation, I make no secret of where I live; I mention Glendale, Arizona quite often while blogging and on on my internet radio show.
Still waiting to find out why you belong to an illogical organization.
Cary Cartter
Let’s recap. shall we? Mayor Ward of Hurst Texas (the only mayor in Texas to join Mayors Against Illegal Guns) feels that he has made Hurst, Texas safer by simply joining an organization that is not logically needed – that is, a group of Law Enforcement Officials who are AGAINST criminals OWNING GUNS. This, in spite of the fact that there are numerous laws on the books in every state making it a crime to own a firearm obtained through other than legal means. However, these same mayors do not feel it is necessary to form an organization against illegal immigrants, or illegal prostitutes, or illegal left turns – all crimes, by their very nature, yet still not “sexy” enough to warrant vote-gathering headlines when they are railed against. By golly, claim you are against “illegal guns” and that makes headlines, doesn’t it? Because guns, by themselves, have committed so MANY crimes in recent years…
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What the mayor either ignores or has not familiarized himself with is the 1991 study completed by Professor Gary Kleck of Florida State University called Point Blank-Guns and Violence in America.
In Kleck’s exhaustive work, he demonstrated defensive uses of firearms by citizens occurred 2.5 million times per year; a figure far overshadowing criminal uses of guns.
As part of Bill Clinton’s serial assaults on the second amendment, attorney General Janet Reno’s Justice Department set out to debunk the Kleck Research and commissioned a 1994 survey by the anti gun Police Foundation. The new study mirrored Kleck’s findings and concluded “…guns are used far more often to defend against crime than to perpetrate crime.” The study was so devastating to the gun ban cause, it didn’t see the light of day until 1997. Even then, it was ignored by mainstream media.
Whatever the case, Mayor Ward has been disingenuous with his words and actions for the apparent sake of garnering votes and creating a public reputation for future political aspirations. His inability to respond without becoming hostile indicates an adolescent mindset that is indicative of liberals who base the behavior on emotion rather than logic.
Happy New Year, Jarhead. We’re praying for you and your family.
Sincerely,
Squid
Thank you for the link and the information, Gawfer. This is the type of information that is being buried by the anti-gun group, in collaboration with the head-in-the-sand MainStream Media.
Harvesting votes would appear to be of more importance than ferreting out the truth, on any subject, undertaken by any politician.
Thank you for the prayers.
Feel free to forward my comment to whomever you choose. Some may not be interested in facing facts, but it’s the only way they’ll grow up.
Your Arizona secret is safe with me.
Include this link in your further correspondence with the good mayor, Cary:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Fewer-guns-less-crime-Not-in-this-world-80433802.html
Hard to dispute those figures!
You have to give the Mayor kudos for two things…
He IS responding to you, knowing you mean nothing to him vote-wise, and…
He is responding respectfully. That’s more than you can say about many of these crazy liberals.
Thanks for tilting at windmills, Don.
(Oh, and by the way… join the NRA, dammit!)
Thanks, Joe – I appreciate you keeping that under your hat.
GB – I have, and I thank you. I’ll be posting the most recent exchanges soon. Yes, he is being civil about it. As far as the NRA – I really, really, really, cannot afford it. It is kinda tight right now, as you know.
It’s getting tiresome to see yet another politician that refuses to answer questions, but it’s getting so darned commonplace that it’s more of the rule than an exception. More feel good silliness from a left-leaning stuffed suit. No surprise on that one!
Just listened to the podcast. Thanks for the plug my friend. Intermittent sound effects on your podcast compare favorably to old science fiction movies! My experience mano-a-mano on Skype with my son is great! Hope you eventually get the situation under control so your now and then feedback problems go away.
John – he thinks he has answered the question. I don’t think he has answered the BASIC question, but he thinks he has asked what he heard as the question. You are right, typical crook n suit behavior.
GB – you are welcome for the plug. I think I may have figured out the issue with the headset, so it should be better in the future.
Skype works very well for all the long-haul calling that I don’t feel like using the cell phone for, that’s for sure.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Yeah. As necessary as Human Who Insist On Breathing — until death, that is.
El Ignoramuso.
BZ
The mayor is nothing but a typical politician. Says nothing of consequence but puts a good spin on it.
Cary, Give em hell brother.
Luckily My mayor is not part of that, or at least as far as I know he isn’t. Recently during a face to face with our Mayer Ron loveridge, we asked the question about MAIG. He said he was not a part of it and would get back to us. I explained what it was and he gave a typical political answer. Basically he stated Illegal guns were a problem, but he added that criminals possess illegal guns far more than upstanding citizens….I let him know I was against ANY politician that favored stronger gun legislation….