I will never forget the first letter I ever wrote to a politician was to then Senator John Breaux (D)LA who only served 33 years in Congress from 1972 to 2005. Wrote him (he was a "conservative" Democarat) regarding not supporting the Clinton gun legislation. In a few weeks I got a nice letter back from him thanking me and saying he would not support that or any other anti gun legislation....... What a great response, unfortunately he had already voted FOR Bill's Bill a few days before the date of the letter.