Posted on 01/21/2005 4:58:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The arrest of a man identified by Fox News as a bodyguard for anti-gun film director Michael Moore by New York Port Authority Police Wednesday evening proves that Moore is an elitist who thinks it is fine for him to have armed security, while he has endeavored to disarm other law-abiding Americans, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said today.
Adding to the irony, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb, is the fact that bodyguard Patrick Burke was arrested for violating the kind of Draconian gun law that Moore and his extremist gun control contemporaries would support. Burke was reportedly arrested at JFK International Airport when he declared his firearm at the ticket counter, as required by law when traveling.
New York authorities habitually arrest private citizens at airports around the state when they declare firearms as required by law, and do not have a New York firearms license. It is a technicality that has tripped up many travelers who may simply be going through the state on their way to or from other destinations.
“Michael Moore is a world-class hypocrite for campaigning against the gun rights of law-abiding citizens, while having an armed bodyguard,” Gottlieb observed. “Unfortunately for Mr. Burke, who is reportedly licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, he has been tripped up by the same anti-gun mentality espoused by his elitist employer. Sadly, if criminal charges are pursued, it will be Mr. Burke, not his boss, who takes the fall, possibly losing his gun rights in the process, because possession of an unlicensed gun in New York is a felony.
“Like so many other arrogant Hollywood anti-gunners, Michael Moore obviously considers his life more important than the lives of all the people he would disarm,” Gottlieb stated. “His malevolence toward the rights of gun owners only adds to the hypocrisy of this case.
“Naturally,” Gottlieb concluded, “we would be delighted to recommend a suitable lawyer from the SAF attorney referral list to represent Mr. Burke. And we’re certain Malevolent Michael will happily pick up the tab.”
The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus brief & fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
What do they need bodyguards for anyway? Don't the 5000 layers of lard on their bellies protect them?
"What do they need bodyguards for anyway? Don't the 5000 layers of lard on their
bellies protect them?"
I suspect that the adipose tissue covered with a high quality (thick) leather jacket
should protect from a lot of pee-shooter pistol rounds...(although I'd not want
to test that theory).
That wouldn't be fair, as Mr. Heston has Alzheimers. How about Tom Selleck?
In other words, only Dan Rather would consider him an honest man?
But is the bodyguard really stupid, or did he just trip over a stupid gun law by obeying another stupid gun law?
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