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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peacemaker" data-source="post: 1137919" data-attributes="member: 12095">I just sent this message to Brad Henry:Dear Governor Henry,I am appalled by your recent actions in which you denied the citizen of the State of Oklahoma from being the 44th state to allow the open carrying of a handgun. I realize you have the power and right to veto any bill you choose but I find it despicable that you would claim to have an A rating from the NRA and a supporter of the second amendment but you would wait until the last hour on Friday to veto this bill and sneak out for the weekend.I further find it a disservice to the state where all polls showed that as many as 75% of Oklahomans favored the bill which passed by an overwhelming support of both branches of the legislature yet you shot it down.You took the side of a certain faction of law enforcement and at the same time painted gun owners as incompetent with your own words saying that open carry would lead to "brandishing" of firearms. I will have you know that those of us who do own and carry concealed are responsible citizens who treat their weapons as a tool of great respect and not some powerful toy.You believe that law enforcement is more important in government than the people. I will leave you with this quote from the great Ronald Reagan:"From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden."Thank you for your time,JWH</blockquote>

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