From: Professor Joseph E. Olson
and
Leroy Pyle
Please sign the petition at
http://www.i-charity.net/sw.cgi/ptn/4
The Second Amendment Sisters have created an online petition against gun control to be submitted at the rally in DC on Mother's Day.
As luck would have it, it's at the same place that the Million Mom Marchers have their petition. It was put up this evening, and can you believe that we've got more signatures than the MMM's do?
Please help us out - sign and cross post this alert! See Knox's comments on this group.
From: neal@nealknox.com (Neal Knox)
Date: 01/29/2000, 10:36:04 PM
Jan 29 update -- President Bill Clinton's State of the Union
promise to put "gun control" at the front of this year's
legislative agenda, and his upping the ante to require a
handgun buyer's license complete with a "gun safety" test,
may make it possible for Republicans to hold the House in
this year's election.
But if Republican leaders start caving on these issues -- deserting their base among gun owners, as they have shown a proclivity to do -- they will assure their loss of the House, and possibly even both houses of the Congress and the Presidency.
Clinton's adoption of Al Gore's campaign issue came as a surprise -- although there had been rumors dating back to the mid- December summit meeting of leading Administration anti-gunners.
But the structure of the Clinton handgun licensing program -- mandating the states to create the programs -- makes it less likely to get through Congress, much less get past the Supreme Court (which has been taking a dim view of state mandates).
Requiring states to implement the Clinton-Gore program makes it less likely to get the "moderates" from both parties to support the plan.
Further, by pulling the string on this radical program before obtaining passage of the Senate-passed and mostly House- approved Juvenile Justice gun amendments, Clinton is signaling once again that he doesn't care about passing "gun control" -- he mainly wants to argue about it during the 2000 campaign.
If Republicans remember "who brung them to the dance" in 1994 -- and even Clinton acknowledged that it was the Democrats' passage of Brady and the "assault weapon" ban that gave Republicans their first Congressional majority in 40 years -- then Clinton and Gore will have made a huge political miscalculation.
By such a major escalation of the "gun control" fight, Clinton should make it easier to stop both the handgun license and the package of gun bills we saw in 1999. Unless Republican leaders start folding.
Strangely, it's all up to the Republicans.
While NRA apparently isn't doing anything to counter the Million Mom March on Mother's day, Second Amendment Sisters plans an Armed Informed Mothers' March (A.I.M.M.) for Sunday May 14 on the Mall in Washington D.C.
"The purpose of A.I.M.M. is to ... let Congress know that we won't stand for having our right to defend our families ripped away," Dallas spokesman Kimberly J. Watson says.
Right on, ladies.