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."
""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."
Thats enough to warm the heart.
I just rejoined...can't wait to get my free duffle bag.
Seriously, NRA would get and hold more members if they could keep their membership records straight.
I got my shots! Although, it might be a good idea to get a booster before inviting such activity.
"Sincerely, Your Friends at StoptheNRA.com
...Your gift will be worth double when you give to our Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Please give a tax-deductible gift today."
That's gonna take awhile,
the new dog only weighs 12 pounds and it takes time to fill a bag.
Just think "Your gift will be worth double"...
The Appeals Court ruling really has them scrambling...
Shameless whores ain't they?
Hey guys:
Let's quite smearing a fine family-oriented TV show!
Just call them the Brady Boobs or something.
Here! Here! I trust the GOP faithful will send him packing.
I cannot fathom he could win the nomination.
Ronnie must be doing high rotation at Brady's antics......
I was speaking in general...
I am well aware that there are problems in law enforcement...
especially when these Army and national guardsmen team up with Cops in SWAT teams...
ooooeeeee!! Something rotten in the USA!!!!
Liberals complaining about "activist" judges... That can't be...
Oh, the irony....
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Its all a money making scam by lazy liberals. Live high on the hog off of other people's donations.
ooooeeeee!! Something rotten in the USA!!!!
Oh, indeed. Does the name "Waco" ring a bell?
70 years of erroneous precedent!!!
Attorney Stephen Halbrook's extensive historical research lead him to this interesting conclusion:
"In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the 'collective' right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of
'the people' to keep and bear arms. If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the eighteenth century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis. The phrase 'the people' meant
the same thing in the Second Amendment as it did in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth
Amendments -- that is, each and every free person."
And further:
The "collective rights" theory originated in U.S. v. Tot, (1943). The historical
references in Tot simply do not support its thesis. See Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed
189-191 (1984). http://www.gunlaws.com/books3.htm. Subsequent cases merely string cite to
earlier cases which are ultimately traceable to Tot. http://www.gunlaws.com/SCGC-News.html.
Thanks to Alan Korwin www.gunlaws.com for the above excerpts
Yes, it is! I would suggest that you folks remember exactly who it is that has the guns, and what it's going to cost you to try to take them away from us! Before you start this war, I would advise you to make sure you have your Will written, your funeral paid for and above all else, make your peace with God, because you will be meeting Him shortly after this war begins! The guy who shot Jim was a bad shot. Don't count on the rest to be! America's have seen the writing on the wall. You can only push so far before we push back, and I promise that you will lose!!
Getting that off my chest, now I can say that they are in a rush to solicit money from people so that when they lose they will have a little money to tide them over because after that, they will have to go out and get 'real jobs' like everyone else has. Bwaaaaahahahahaha!
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