D.C. Chapter to Freep Brady Campaign Event Featuring Bill Clinton, Thur. Dec. 4, 2003

D.C. Chapter ^ | Saturday, November 29, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us this Thursday, December 4, in our nation's murder capital (a gun free zone) as we freep Bill Clinton and the Brady Campaign at their meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Brady Bill.

During the '90s, the Clinton administration and their fellow gun-grabbers worked overtime exploiting every gun related tragedy from Waco to Columbine in an effort to demonize responsible gun owners and to strip as many Americans as possible of their Second Amendment rights. All the while they ignored or downplayed the millions of times guns were used to defend and protect people from crimes and assaults.

We'll be out there to remind them that we will stand fast against their campaign to infringe our rights.

When: Thursday, December 4, 2003 from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Where: The public sidewalk in front of the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Bring: Signs, flashlights, American and Gadsden flags.

A permit for this protest has been submitted with the Metropolitan Police.

The D.C. Chapter's rules for protesting, as always, will be in effect. Briefly, they are: No Violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.

The D.C. Chapter reserves the right to determine who can participate in this demonstration and to exclude signs in bad taste.

[kristinn]

Link to drZ's earlier thread.

EAGLES UP!!!

[kristinn]

D.C. Chapter ping!

[tgslTakoma]

Bang!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET how then President BILL CLINTON horned in on National TV Coverage of the Columbine High School Shootings to blast Gun Owndership...

....WHILE THE SHOOTINGS WERE GOING ON..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glock rocks]

bang!

[ExSoldier]

"Bring: Signs, flashlights, American and Gadsden flags.

Make sure your flashlights are top of the line "Surefire." Which can act to stun by sheer brightness on a dark night. I have family in nearby Virginia, and when I visit them...I sometimes visit historic DC (since I am a history teacher), but only in the daytime and then I'm on "condition orange" nearly the whole time. Just super alert. It's tiring, but better to be tired than victimized. I carry my Surefire light then, too.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"During the '90s, the Clinton administration and their fellow gun-grabbers"

That includes the ENTIRE US SENATE of the 103rd Congress.

 Text of the Second Amendment
"A well regulated Militia
being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

Anyone who actually reads AND understands the 2nd Amendment will see that there is no need or authority for any type of gun registration and there is no need for anyone to have to apply for a license to carry a gun.
Any political party, politician, judge (etc), organization or individual who trys to convince you that:
1) you must register a firearm
2) you must pass a background check
3) you must wait (x) amount of days before you can get your firearm
4) you need to have a license to carry a gun
is either uneducated about OUR rights as citizens
OR is actively working to undermine OUR country.

How Did the Founders Understand the Second Amendment?

CONGRESS in 1866, 1941 and 1986 REAFFIRMS THE SECOND AMENDMENT
The Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms,
originated in the United States Congress in 1789 before being ratified by the States.
On three occasions since then--in 1866, 1941, and 1986--
Congress enacted statutes to reaffirm this guarantee of personal freedom
and to adopt specific safeguards to enforce it.

ON THE DAY BEFORE Thanksgiving 1993,
the 103d US Congress brought forth a constitutional turkey.
The 103d Congress decided that the Second Amendment did not mean what it said
("...shall not be infringed") and passed the Brady bill.
How the Brady Bill Passed (and subsequently - "Instant Check")
When the Brady Bill was passed into law on November 24, 1993,
the Senate voted on the Conference Report
and passed the Brady Bill by UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

[punster]

IMHO, Sarah Brady is a political whore. What else could she be, with her love of William Judas Clinton.

Unfortunately, I live on the west coast, or I would be there to protest them both.

[dakine]

Bump for D.C....wish I could be there...

[basil]

Man! This is one I really hate to miss. Freep them doubly good for me!

[Indy Pendance]

You guys have all the fun! Wish I was closer, I'd be there in a heartbeat.

[Taxman]

Love to join you, but will not be back in Northern VA until next week.

FReepem for me!

[lowbridge]

The D.C. Chapter's rules for protesting, as always, will be in effect. Briefly, they are: No Violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.

[Angelwood]

Thanks for the additional rules via all those signs -- ours aren't bad compared to some of the others.

Thanks for the bump and thelaugh.

[pro2A Mom]

Geez!
The DC Chapter is doing a fabulous job!
I REALLY want/need to be at this thing!
I'll have to talk hubby into letting me go, but there is no guarentee that he'll agree. (He gets very nervous with my being in DC at night, unarmed. The prospect of him being a single parent to four teenagers scares the daylights out of him!

Does the hotel have valet parking? Would one have to be on a "list" in order to park there? Answers to these questions will determine my attendance.

Thanks!

[ladyinred]

More great public service by the DC Chapter!
Thanks to all of you for all you do! (poetry!) :-)

[Flora McDonald]

"We do not climb up the slides"

Ha! Tell that to a FReeper!

[The UnVeiled Lady]

Gun Control isn't about Guns
It is about Control

Wish all of us could be there!!!! Ya lose the 2nd and ya lose them all, but if you can keep the 2nd, you can get back all that you have lost.

[buffyt]

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Today, there are only 5 states that do not have a right-to-carry system.

States with right-to-carry laws have lower overall violent crime rates, compared to states without right-to-carry laws. In states whose laws respect the citizen's right-to-carry guns for self defense the total violent crime is 13% lower, homicide is 3% lower, robbery is 26% lower and aggravated assault is 7% lower. (Data: Crime in the United States 1996, FBI Uniform Crime Reports)

Right-to-carry license holders are more law-abiding than the general public. In Florida, for example, the firearm crime rate among license holders, annually averaging only several crimes per 100,000 licensees, is a fraction of the rate for the state as a whole. Since the carry law went into effect in 1987, less than 0.02% of Florida carry permits have been revoked because of gun crimes committed by license holders. (Florida Dept. of State) Research reports printed in "More Guns, Less Crime", John R. Lott, Jr., the John M. Olin Visiting Law and Economics Fellow at the University of Chicago, examined data ranging from gun ownership polls to FBI crime rate data for each of the nation's 3.045 counties over a 1977 too 1994 time span. Lott's research amounts to the largest data set that has ever been put together for any study of crime, let alone for the study of gun control. Among Prof. Lott's findings:

• While arrest and conviction rates being the most important factors influencing crime.... non discretionary concealed-handgun laws are also important, and they are the most cost-effective means of reducing crime.

• Non discretionary or "shall-issue" carry permit laws reduce violent crime for two reasons. They reduce the number of attempted crimes because criminals can't tell which potential victims are armed, being able to defend themselves. Secondly, victims who do have guns are in a much better position to defend themselves. Concealed carry laws deter crime because they increase the criminal's risk of doing business.

• States with the largest increases in gun ownership also have the largest decreases in violent crime. And, it is high crime, urban areas, and neighborhoods with large minority populations that experience the greatest reductions in violent crime when law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed handguns.

• There is a strong relationship between the number of law-abiding citizens with permits and the crime rate--as more people obtain permits there is a greater decline in violent crime rates.

• For each additional year that a concealed handgun law is in effect the murder rate declines by 3%, rape by 2% and robberies by more than 2%.

• Murder rates decline when either more women or more men carry concealed handguns, but the effect is especially pronounced for women. An additional woman carrying a concealed handgun reduces the murder rate for women by about three to four times more than an additional man carrying a concealed handgun reduces the rate for men.

• The benefits of concealed handguns are not limited to those who carry them. Others get a free ride from the crime fighting efforts of their fellow citizens.

• The benefits of right-to-carry are not limited to people who share the characteristics of those who carry the guns. The most obvious example of this "halo" effect, is the drop in murders of children following the adoption of non discretionary laws. Arming older people not only may provide direct protection to these children, but also causes criminals to leave the area.

• The increased presence of concealed handguns "does not raise the number of accidental deaths or suicides from handguns."

[Flyer]

FReeping bells, FReeping bells, FReeping all the way
Oh what fun it is to FReep in the grand old FReeper way!

Houston bumps D.C.!

p.s. FReep is NOT in the Free Republic dictionary! ACK!