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I am sending this via email as I am disgusted and disinclined to take the time and expense to use physical media to write.

My wife and I were planning a 16th birthday party for my daughter and had planned on 10 select friends, sisters and us staying and renting rooms as well as taking advantage of the water park at Great Wolf Lodge.

I just discovered that your business has decided to disarm the law abiding amongst us. You have provided an unprotected pool of victims for those that could care less what signs are posted or what laws are broken as they intend to harm those inside.

I have been a soldier, a patrol officer and am a fireman of over 20 years. To be told that I am an undesirable because I have an exemplary record of personal conduct, have undergone scrutiny by federal and state authorities and have endured hours of training at great personal cost is condescending and alarming.

It is as if your organization is completely ignorant of the multiple times, especially recently, where unarmed groups of people were simply there for the slaughter. A few notable but certainly not all of the examples include:

1) Luby's 23 Killed (Including the parents of a doctor who had to leave her gun in the car and watch her parents die)

2) Wedgewood Baptist Church - where a 150 Christian teenagers and ministers had to watch as 3 of there number were killed and 20 others were injured)

3) Virginia Tech (in a state where on campus carry was legal but the policy of the school forbade the carry of concealed weapons) - Where students and professors licensed to carry watched helplessly as 32 were killed and many others were wounded.

4)Fort Hood - Where on base carry is strictly controlled and SOLDIERS, defenders of our freedom had to seek cover under desks while their colleagues, friends, brothers were methodically executed. This was stopped within 3 minutes by a civilian police contractor, that was armed. In that three minutes 13 died and 31 were wounded including their defender. Many of those wounded are gravely injured and may yet die.

Laws and/or signs restricting the carry of firearms did not discourage the killers, it simply left those that were following the rules defenseless and dead. Ask the survivors, "Do you think you were safer because those qualified to carry legally were not armed?" Go ahead, ask.

God forbid such a tragedy befall your facility or the innocents inside, but I know that if it does, we will not be there; either as defenders or victims.

We're done, I will now have to look elsewhere for a venue for my daughter. I will use every resource I have to spread this information to friends, family and the web sites that support the lawful carry of weapons for self defense.

Sincerely,
<Name>, U.S. Army (Ret.), <City> Fire and Rescue 20+ years