State Representative Evan Jenne

February 7, 2008

State Representative Evan Jenne

6943 Stirling Road

Davie, Florida 33314

RE: Guns & animals – animals & guns and the proposed legislative ban on assault weapons

Representative Jenne,

“In rural parts of Florida, good people use guns to hunt animals.

In South Florida, animals use guns to hunt good people.”

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Good phrasing. You are verging on the edges, however unintentionally, of Rhetoric. Unfortunately that forces you to confront Logic. I’ll spare you the conflict of confronting Grammar. I think the entire Trivium would be a bit too much for you in one day.

Would your proposed legislation about assault weapons only be valid in ‘South Florida’? Would Disneyworld be the DMZ? AK47s and Uzis North of it; flintlocks only South of it.

Further, would you have different penalties for different areas? If, as you say, ‘animals in South Florida hunt good people’, should there be an open season-no limit hunt for them? It is an absolute that we could never waterboard them. How about just denutting them?

I have asked your co-sponsor, Senator Margolis, if she would sponsor legislation calling for the execution of anyone convicted of killing a police officer with an assault weapon. Would you?

If not, why not?

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