Kmart Policy

From: "Neal W. Welsh" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:30:21 -0700
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Regarding the K-Mart Policy

Gentlemen:

Regarding your policy of severely limiting access to firearms and/or ammunition may I submit the following:

1) I am a 63 year old retired scientist/professor; hardly a political whacko!

2) Your policy of limiting access to arms by way of refusing to sell arms or ammunition in times of national crisis is a rather short-sighted, nay a stupid, repudiation of one of the tenets of Americanism, i.e. the right to self defense via the possession and possibly necessitated use of personal arms. You obviously have no faith in the ability of the American people (whom you purport to serve) to make those judgments necessary to one's self preservation in what is obviously a Darwinian world, i.e., a planet in which only the strongest survive. Indeed, if the policy of the American aviation system had been that any able bodied free citizen would be permitted to carry weapons of choice on board aircraft, there would have been no problem approaching the severity of that which our Nation has shared on and since 9-11-01. Clear and logical thinking is required with respect to this thesis. We are each responsible for our individual and by extension, family protection, period! Like it or not that is the way the natural world works.

3) Maybe you have missed Benjamin Franklin's sage observation to the effect that he who surrenders his personal freedom in the name of security deserves neither. This is not an idle statement which deserves but lip service. The philosophy as exemplified by your lack of rational thinking is what, in large measure, makes the operation of terrorists feasible in the first place. And make no weak-kneed responses that our security agents (so-called) and police forces are responsible to protect our persons when the best that they can do in the majority of circumstances is possibly solve a crime after it occurs. Make no mistake in understanding the axiom that it is individual preparation that prevents the majority of crime, violent and otherwise.

4) Until you adopt the position outlined herein and announce it publicly, I shall make no further visits to any of your establishments no matter the competitive pricing nor inconvenience; nor shall I recommend to my friends and associates that they operate to the contrary.

Neal W. Welsh (free citizen, retired)