Letter To Sen Ayotte: "Please, you are supposed to work for us-not the gun industry fronted by NRA"

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Letter: Ayotte is supposed to work for us, not the NRA

For the Monitor
Tuesday, May 14, 2013


I’m sorry, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, but I call b.s. on your supposedly setting the record straight about your vote on strengthening background checks (“I voted to expand background check system,” Monitor Forum, May 7).

Please, your constituents are not stupid! You gave a bogus reason for voting against the Manchin-Toomey amendment (fear of a national registry) even though that was specifically excluded in the wording.

The bill you did vote for was a National Rifle Association-backed one that experts said would actually weaken the background check system and allow more severely mentally ill access to guns.

Are you unable to admit an error of judgement after you noticed your popularity tanking after your no vote? I would have a lot more respect for you if you could just admit you were wrong and that you would reconsider in light of better understanding of the Manchin-Toomey amendment and be willing to change your vote when it comes up again. Goodness, even Sen. Jeff Flake admitted his error after his poll results came out. Trying to double down on your faulty reasoning and also trying to tell us that you really did vote to strengthen background checks is misleading and dishonest. Nice try!

Please, you are supposed to work for us – the vast majority of your constituents who want to strengthen background checks – not the gun industry fronted by the NRA.

CATHARINE FARKAS

Sanbornton
http://www.concordmonitor.com/opinion/6222999-95/letter-ayotte-is-supposed-to-work-for-us-not-the-nra