Posted on 03/15/2007 8:57:14 AM PDT by ExpatGator
Dear Dana,
The following histrionics are brought to you by the Brady Campaign via the emails that I receive from them:
"Brady Gun Law Defense Fund [image]Last week, a Federal Appeals Court overturned Washington D.C.’s long-standing restrictions on handguns — a decision that endangers all of America’s gun laws.
This case is most likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and we have a tidal wave of work to do before it gets there.
This battle — to its very core — is the most important battle we have ever waged. We need your help today to build a strong Brady Gun Law Defense Fund to save America’s gun laws.
This fight is so critical to the safety and sanity of our nation that an anonymous donor has extended his challenge and will match dollar for dollar all gifts to this Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Your gift will be fully tax deductible.
The threat to all our gun laws is truly unprecedented. The hypocrisy of the ruling is astounding.
What is at stake for you and your community? An emboldened gun lobby will use the ruling to challenge strong local, state and federal gun laws.
We must prepare for an onslaught of lawsuits in which gun laws will be challenged under this new reading of the Second Amendment — a strategy the gun lobby rarely used because of past legal decisions … until now. And, if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses itself and adopts the “individual right to bear arms” view approved by the Federal Appeals Court, all good gun laws everywhere could be at risk …
... from the long-standing machine gun ban … to the 1968 Gun Control Act … to the Brady Background Check Law.
… to your local and state laws … like the ones in California and New Jersey banning Assault Weapons … and many more.
These and many other life-saving laws promoting public safety are at risk. And we need to be ready for an immediate onslaught of challenges and fight them tooth and nail. We need your help today with a tax-deductible gift!
Why is this ruling so radical? Because the decision defies almost 70 years of legal precedent. All courts before this — save one — have ruled that the Second Amendment is not an individual right to bear arms, and this is the first Federal Appeals Court ever to declare a gun law unconstitutional based on the Second Amendment.
In her dissent, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote that Second Amendment rights relate to “Those militia whose continued vitality is required to safeguard the individual state.” Unlike Judge Henderson, the two judge majority ruled against decades of legal precedent…
… And completely disregarded the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia, depriving D.C. citizens of a strict handgun law enacted thirty years ago.
Talk about judicial activism! We can’t help but note the unbelievable hypocrisy here too. Conservatives cry and gnash their teeth about activism from the bench. This decision is judicial activism at its worst.
Judge Silberman, who wrote the majority opinion, is well-known for his close ties to the right-wing. Now — with quintessential judicial activism from the bench — the gun lobby threatens to achieve through the courts what it has been unable to do in Congress.
This is going to be a long, hard fight, but with your help we will save our nation’s gun laws. We will keep you up-to-date as we confront this extraordinary threat to our efforts to reduce gun violence. But right now, we need your support to build our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Remember that right now your gift to this fund will be doubled! Please act now.
Sincerely, Your Friends at StoptheNRA.com
P.S. Your gift will be worth double when you give to our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Please give a tax-deductible gift today."
"...anonymous donor..."??
Does anybody think George Soros, maybe? The "Brady Bunch"...What a bunch of bumbling boobs...although, I would probably be a little pissed, too if someone shot me in the eye!!
HOW IS THIS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE???!?
"court to force bankruptcy (like Rudy tries)."
Agreed. Giuliani is elitist, gun-hating, anti self-defense scum and he must be dealt an electoral ass-whoopin'. We cannot allow his type to represent America's last hope.
Helluva thing ain't it? I am amazed at what these communist, freedom hating lobbying groups get away with.
Tell all your liberal "friends" that irrational fear of guns is a mental illness called hoplophobia and that it is treatable.
My gun club has a hypnotherapist who is qualified to treat hoplophobia.
Laz, Get pissed and donate to whichever gun group you want. Fight them with dollars. Money is power in Washington.
The only option is shooting them, but most of us are too busy supporting the welfare class to go on a jihad. ;)
I guess that they really want a revolution in this country. Get rid of the judges that propose changing our Constitution. It takes, last I heard, 32 states, to change the Constitution.
Think I'll hit the range this weekend and maybe drag a lib or two with me.
Targets?
HOW IS THIS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE???!?
Indeed!
From: http://www.bradycampaign.org/donate/
Because we lobby for sensible gun laws, contributions to the Brady Campaign are not tax deductible for federal income purposes. If you wish to make a tax-deductible gift, please visit the Brady Center web site.
From: http://www.bradycenter.org/donate/
Your entire gift to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is fully tax-deductible since no goods or services were provided. If you wish to support our legislative activities, go to www.bradycampaign.org.
On the back of the donation form I sent to NRA-ILA it states that if I donate more than $250, I need to list my occupation and provide the name of my employer. So why does the Brady's "anonymous" donor get to remain anonymous?
If an "entire gift to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is fully tax-deductible since no goods or services were provided," my donation to NRA-ILA should also be fully tax-deductible since no goods or services are provided by NRA-ILA.
I wonder how much tax exempt money changes hands between the Brady Center and the Brady Campaign.
Bang!
Best thing that happened to them in years. The liberal betwetters will be reaching under those mattresses and sending in gobs of urine soaked cash to the Brady bunch. Big raises for Brady, Sugarman, and Naomi Piss.
These anti-gun, left-wing-nuts need to be beaten ~ soundly!!
"Think I'll hit the range this weekend and maybe drag a lib or two with me.
Targets?"
Try to at least make a half-hearted effort at converting them first. If at first you don't succeed then just sh... LOL.
...with the exception of the police? I don't know about that. See the WOD for exceptions to THAT rule. Per Lord Acton who wrote years ago about the infallibility of the Pope, "Power tends to corrupt but absolute power corrups absolutely." Drug warriors have it seems sometimes absolute power to invade and seize property in the name of the state. So I would say that some, not all, police act in a criminal manner under the guise of law. Using, I might add, guns that would be illegal if we owned them.
If the Brady bunch was drowning I would send them a Cinder Block.
Yeah but but but he reduced crime in the New York, right? Citizens won't need their guns anymore, right?
How is this possible?
Carful, the _itch is drooling and probably has rabies.
what's fund raising and lobbying gonna do? is brady admitting to trying to bribe federal justices?
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