Million Mom March comes up a bit short

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | March 16, 2005 | Nick Coleman

[jdege]

Million Mom March comes up a bit short

Nick Coleman, Star Tribune
March 16, 2005 NICK0316

There were a million moms at the Cathedral of St. Paul Tuesday.

Minus 999,979.

Five years ago, the moms could have taken a run at a million. But five years ago is a long time, when you are talking about politics.

Five years ago, the Million Mom March turned out thousands against guns in St. Paul and then, on a beautiful Mother's Day in May of 2000, assembled three-quarters of a million strong in Washington, D.C., to demand that the nation's lawmakers put an end to the carnage.

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It was something called National Bell Ringing Day, an effort to focus attention on the fact that Congress seems more interested in protecting gun makers from lawsuits than protecting kids from guns. It would seem to have been a timely effort, with the country reeling from almost daily massacres.

But when the bell started tolling in St. Paul, only 21 "moms" had shown up, including a couple of priests and a few stragglers who joined the somber assembly during the 15 minutes it took to ring 82 times.

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Nick Coleman is at ncoleman@startribune.com.

[jdege]

One thing Heller and the other moms wanted me to help them make clear is that they are not "anti-gun." Instead, they stressed, they are "anti-gun violence."

OK. Point noted. But the victory goes to the gunslingers: If not even the mothers can come right out and say they hate the bloody guns, then it is clear: The bloody guns have won.

No, we haven't. But we're making some progress...

[Mr. Mojo]

only 21 "moms" had shown up,

That's ever fewer than Martha Burke rounded up to protest Augusta National.

[Lazamataz]

You can tell this guy is sympathetic to their cause, but even he can't resist taking a few shots at their laughable numbers.

[Fenris6]

Congress seems more interested in protecting gun makers from lawsuits than protecting kids from guns.

uh-huh. Someone beat me over the head with your newspaper. Naturally, I've decided to sue you.

[DocH]

One thing Heller and the other moms wanted me to help them make clear is that they are not "anti-gun."

Yeah, riiiiight.

Like they are not "pro gun-control", just "pro gun-SAFETY".

Just more AGS, DNC, John F'ing Kerry, Hitlery Clinton, Million Maggot March "smoke & mirrors" (read that -BULL SHIT).

[andyk]

LOL! You've come a long way, baby.

[Spok]

To a liberal with a cause, one dozen=one million.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

On Tuesday, the remnants of the million moms mustered around the country to jog our conscience about the daily mayhem, the 82 Americans who are shot to death each day, including eight kids under 18 years old.

How about the other 228 people who are killed every day because they can't legally defend themselves???

And I think they included suicides in the 82 per day because I can't get their numbers to add up.

[tx_eggman]

and then, on a beautiful Mother's Day in May of 2000, assembled three-quarters of a million strong in Washington, D.C.

Gotta call BS on this one, more like 100K. Here's a photo of the Mall from the 2000 gathering of idiots.

[gridlock]

That's ever fewer than Martha Burke rounded up to protest Augusta National.

Well, you gotta admit, Augusta got a lot more press. Oh how I miss Howell Raines!

But these Million Mommers have to realize that they were tools of Hillary!, used to advance her career at that point in time. They were lead by the sister of Hillary!'s closest adviser, and provider her with a national stage.

But times have changed, and Hillary! has moved on. She needs to appear moderate now, and she has to appeal to the gun nuts. So all this talk of gun control has to go, and the Million Mommers are getting what all friends and accomplices of the Clintons get when there usefulness has run out...

[reagan_fanatic]

If you use 'Calypso' Louie's patented arithmetic, that's damn near 1,000,000.

[G32]

Oh yeah, this article is blatantly anti-gun.

[rabidralph]

Here's FR's counterprotest from 2001.

[FateAmenableToChange]

and then, on a beautiful Mother's Day in May of 2000, assembled three-quarters of a million strong in Washington, D.C. Gotta call BS on this one, more like 100K. Here's a photo of the Mall from the 2000 gathering of idiots.

I was there, at the Second Amendment Sister's rally at the south end of the Mall. There weren't more than 75,000 - 100,000 people there for the mad mommy's. But Rosie "The Spoon" O'Donnell and the other freaks up on the Mommy stage kept shouting to the crowd that there were hundreds of thousands of people there.

[bmwcyle]

I walk through that crowd. My sign said, "What part of Shall Not Infringe don't you understand".

[martin_fierro]

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[shekkian]

Maybe they're counting 1 million brain cells, collectively.

[Joe Brower]

" It was something called National Bell Ringing Day"

"National Ding-Dong Day" is more like it.

[jdege]

I was at the 2001 Mother's Day rally at the Capitol building in St. Paul.

One woman was ranting about an innocent young drug-dealing thug who was cut down in the prime of his life by a five-cent bullet.

I just had to shout, "Where do you shop? They cost me damned-near a quarter!"

Didn't go over well.