George Bush 1995 Typed Letter Signed - About the National Rifle Association - Best Bush Letter We Have Had In Years!
41st President. Incredible typed letter signed “George Bush”, May 25, 1995, personal Houston, Texas stationery, but sent from Kennebunkport, Maine, to Pete Haas as President of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, in full:
Thank you for your thoughtful note about my letter to the National Rifle Association.
I am a hunter and a gun owner. I have long supported owning guns and NRA’s training programs.
But when NRA attacks our law enforcement people as ‘Naz*’s’, ‘lawbreakers’ and ‘jackbotted thugs,’ that is outrageous and cannot be condoned.
Congratulations on the outstanding job the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is doing for the families of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. What a difference you are making.
Bush has added a handwritten postscript: “It’s great what you’re doing for the Whicher family”
Presented slabbed by Beckett Authentication.
Bush, an avid hunter, had been a lifetime member of the NRA. Like many of his generation, the NRA to him was an organization dedicated to the promotion of hunting and firearm training. But during his political rise, that version of the NRA fundamentally changed, and Bush was wise enough to see it.
Just days before the deadly Oklahoma City bombing, where a domestic terrorist targeted federal agents and killed 168 people, the NRA sent out a fundraising letter in which NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre referred to federal agents as “armed terrorists dressed in Ninja black … jack-booted thugs armed to the teeth who break down doors, open fire with automatic weapons and kill law-abiding citizens.”
The “jack-booted thugs” imagery has long been associated with N*zi storm troopers. The letter showed just how far the NRA was sliding into lunatic conspiracy territory, but the organization’s refusal to recant LaPierre’s words in the wake of the bombing six days later seemed to be the last straw for Bush. He reacted by publicly resigning his membership.
His letter to the organization stated that “your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.”
Bush was of an era where it was important to recognize who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Comparing U.S. law enforcement to Na*is while advocating for irresponsible gun policy would have been tough for a guy like Bush to swallow. So he didn’t.
His reference to the “Whicher family” is in honor of Al Whicher who served on his Secret Service detail during his time as Vice President and President. Whicher was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.
41st President. Incredible typed letter signed “George Bush”, May 25, 1995, personal Houston, Texas stationery, but sent from Kennebunkport, Maine, to Pete Haas as President of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, in full:
Thank you for your thoughtful note about my letter to the National Rifle Association.
I am a hunter and a gun owner. I have long supported owning guns and NRA’s training programs.
But when NRA attacks our law enforcement people as ‘Naz*’s’, ‘lawbreakers’ and ‘jackbotted thugs,’ that is outrageous and cannot be condoned.
Congratulations on the outstanding job the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is doing for the families of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. What a difference you are making.
Bush has added a handwritten postscript: “It’s great what you’re doing for the Whicher family”
Presented slabbed by Beckett Authentication.
Bush, an avid hunter, had been a lifetime member of the NRA. Like many of his generation, the NRA to him was an organization dedicated to the promotion of hunting and firearm training. But during his political rise, that version of the NRA fundamentally changed, and Bush was wise enough to see it.
Just days before the deadly Oklahoma City bombing, where a domestic terrorist targeted federal agents and killed 168 people, the NRA sent out a fundraising letter in which NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre referred to federal agents as “armed terrorists dressed in Ninja black … jack-booted thugs armed to the teeth who break down doors, open fire with automatic weapons and kill law-abiding citizens.”
The “jack-booted thugs” imagery has long been associated with N*zi storm troopers. The letter showed just how far the NRA was sliding into lunatic conspiracy territory, but the organization’s refusal to recant LaPierre’s words in the wake of the bombing six days later seemed to be the last straw for Bush. He reacted by publicly resigning his membership.
His letter to the organization stated that “your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.”
Bush was of an era where it was important to recognize who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Comparing U.S. law enforcement to Na*is while advocating for irresponsible gun policy would have been tough for a guy like Bush to swallow. So he didn’t.
His reference to the “Whicher family” is in honor of Al Whicher who served on his Secret Service detail during his time as Vice President and President. Whicher was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.
41st President. Incredible typed letter signed “George Bush”, May 25, 1995, personal Houston, Texas stationery, but sent from Kennebunkport, Maine, to Pete Haas as President of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, in full:
Thank you for your thoughtful note about my letter to the National Rifle Association.
I am a hunter and a gun owner. I have long supported owning guns and NRA’s training programs.
But when NRA attacks our law enforcement people as ‘Naz*’s’, ‘lawbreakers’ and ‘jackbotted thugs,’ that is outrageous and cannot be condoned.
Congratulations on the outstanding job the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation is doing for the families of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. What a difference you are making.
Bush has added a handwritten postscript: “It’s great what you’re doing for the Whicher family”
Presented slabbed by Beckett Authentication.
Bush, an avid hunter, had been a lifetime member of the NRA. Like many of his generation, the NRA to him was an organization dedicated to the promotion of hunting and firearm training. But during his political rise, that version of the NRA fundamentally changed, and Bush was wise enough to see it.
Just days before the deadly Oklahoma City bombing, where a domestic terrorist targeted federal agents and killed 168 people, the NRA sent out a fundraising letter in which NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre referred to federal agents as “armed terrorists dressed in Ninja black … jack-booted thugs armed to the teeth who break down doors, open fire with automatic weapons and kill law-abiding citizens.”
The “jack-booted thugs” imagery has long been associated with N*zi storm troopers. The letter showed just how far the NRA was sliding into lunatic conspiracy territory, but the organization’s refusal to recant LaPierre’s words in the wake of the bombing six days later seemed to be the last straw for Bush. He reacted by publicly resigning his membership.
His letter to the organization stated that “your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.”
Bush was of an era where it was important to recognize who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Comparing U.S. law enforcement to Na*is while advocating for irresponsible gun policy would have been tough for a guy like Bush to swallow. So he didn’t.
His reference to the “Whicher family” is in honor of Al Whicher who served on his Secret Service detail during his time as Vice President and President. Whicher was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.