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.
FIGHT THE MANDATORY TRIGGER LOCKS, PURCHASE LIMITS, LICENSING AND REGISTRATION.
NEWS FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS
18484 Preston Road, Suite 102#141
Dallas, TX 75252
World Wide Web: http://www.SAS-AIM.org
DALLAS, TX, January 24, 2000 The Second Amendment Sisters, a grassroots self-defense advocacy organization, has announced plans for the Armed Informed Mothers' March (A.I.M.M.), Sunday May 14, 2000, on the Mall in Washington D.C.
"The purpose of A.I.M.M. is to get concerned women together and let Congress know that we won't stand for having our right to defend our families ripped away," said Kimberly J. Watson, one of the founders of the group. "We won't let this assault go on any longer."
"Women deserve to have every option available to them when it comes to protecting themselves from violence," said Watson. "Any further erosion of the Second Amendment serves only to harm women and their families. Violent criminals don't care how many new laws are made for the children - in fact, a crush of new laws will make it that much easier for criminals to take advantage of children, and their mothers."
In 1998, one out of every 33 women was a victim of a violent crime.
Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) is the brainchild of a small group of women who decided to fight back against propaganda put forth by organizations, such as Handgun Control Inc., which are seeking to exclude the public from firearms ownership. SAS would like to use A.I.M.M. as an opportunity to teach the public things they might not know about laws that exist right now, and why the Second Amendment is important to the American people. They also want to emphasize the need for firearms-safety education, tougher sentencing for violent criminals, and greater parental involvement in the lives of children.
"The women behind the Million Mom March are attacking the wrong end of the problem. Any inanimate object will just sit there until a person picks it up. What they do with it depends on what kind of respect they've been taught for human life," said Watson. "With A.I.M.M., we can make our voices heard. We have to stop treating the law-abiding citizens like criminals. Even Golda Meir was against playing politics on the backs of our children."
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