We’re going to ask him Monday’s Question of the Day
Here’s a letter Mr. Cox wrote about his life and times in lil’ ol’ Two-Starbucks Jackson (As quoted by DelawarePolitics):
“I grew up in the small town of Jackson, Tennessee… It was like thousands of small towns across America.
My dad was a small-town doctor — who was at times paid with produce from farms. Sometimes the only pay he received was the love of his patients.
I would not have changed my childhood for anything. We had neighbors who would drop what they were doing and help us out when we needed it — and we tried to be good neighbors in return. We had a sense of community that seems to be lacking in the lives of so many Americans these days. And we had the opportunity to learn the kind of values that over the decades and centuries have made our nation the greatest the world has ever known.
Maybe that’s why I was so offended when I heard the way that Barack Obama characterized small towns like mine across America, when he said,
“You go into some of these small towns… the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them… and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not suprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
To me, nothing that Barack Obama has ever said or written better sums up the elitist mentality…
He things that the reason tens of millions of Americans own guns and go to church is because they’re “bitter” that Big Government hasn’t given them a better job.
Well let me tell you what.
In Jackson, Tennessee, we don’t own guns because we’re “bitter.” We own guns to hunt and shoot.
In Jackson, Tennessee, we don’t go to church because we’re “bitter.” We go to church to worship God.
In Jackson, Tennessee, there’s very little violent crime… our community, our values, and our churches have taught kids the difference between right and wrong. And so we haven’t raised crop after crop of violent criminals like we often see in big cities.
So I’m not “bitter.” But I am angry…
I’m angry because elitist politicians like Barack Obama claim to know what’s good for me, and claim to know better than me how I should live my life…
I’m angry because Barack Obama — who attends a church best known for its minister’s radical America-hating tirades — seems to think that there’s something wrong with my church because we don’t attack America every Sunday morning.
Chris W. Cox
2 Comments
July 10, 2008 at 8:32 am
I think Mr. Cox’s letter was very well written and expressed the thoughts of most people in small towns all across this great country.
God bless you Mr. Cox, the NRA, and the work that you do.
March 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I’m angry that Mr. Cox has yet to see that what might work in rural America makes no sense at all in a city like Washington, DC. Mr. Cox says it’s okay for those recently discharged from mental hospitals to go out and buy whatever kinds of weapons they so desire. I’m angry that Mr. Cox doesn’t see that this might make defending our Congress and President and foreign dignitaries from harm that much more difficult. I’m angry that Mr. Cox would be willing to deny the citizens of DC the right to vote unless they’re also willing to abdicate their right to decide for themselves how the second amendment should be interpreted. I’m only thankful that Mr. Cox doesn’t also feel it’s within his right to tell us how to speak or practise our religions.