Letter to Levis regarding anti-gun position

Dear Levi Strauss Company, levistrauss@levi.com

I understand that you support a World free from "gun violence", and therefore contribute to organizations attempting to pass new anti-gun laws.

I'm sure you understand that the pejorative term of "gun violence" is one invented by those who would prevent victims from being able to protect themselves. "Gun violence" is no more real that "water violence", whereby people die in accidents or criminal acts involving water.

Violence is committed by people against other people. Violent people use all kinds of tools, sometimes including guns.

The good news is that guns are much more frequently used by law abiding people to protect themselves from criminals than by criminals to victimize others. Couple this with the undisputed fact that criminals don't obey the laws, and it is axiomatic that laws to disarm people only make the law abiding more easily victimized.

The great question is, why would Levi side with the criminal element? Does Levi have some special interest in supporting criminals? Do criminals, for example, buy a lot of Levi products? If so, why do you feel compelled to favor the criminal element among your customers, at the expense of the law abiding element? How can any good American support a company that so clearly favors criminals?

That you would so clearly favor the criminal class is a mystery to me, but until you recant your uncivilized ways, I will have to recommend that Montana gun owners and members of the Montana Shooting Sports Association to no longer buy your products. After a lifetime of wearing Levi's, I'm switching to something else.

Sincerely yours,

Gary S. Marbut, President
Montana Shooting Sports Association