Posted on 03/13/2003 11:47:09 AM PST by webber
ISSUE: Recently, we alerted you to yet another instance of an over-zealous prosecutor pressing charges against a homeowner that used a gun to protect his family against a home invader. Unfortunately, this happens more than anyone cares to admit.
Now, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) has introduced HR 648, "The Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2003", to counter these mis-directed prosecutions and blatant violations of American citizens' Second Amendment rights.
HR 648 was introduced to "protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right." The bill notes that police "cannot protect, and are not legally liable for failing to protect, individual citizens," and that citizens "frequently must use firearms to defend themselves."
It also notes that "Law-abiding citizens, seeking only to provide for their families' defense, are routinely prosecuted for brandishing or using a firearm in self- defense." Rep. Wilson's bill seeks to correct this fact; we need to help him get this bill passed.
ACTION ITEM: The courts have granted immunity from prosecution to police officers who use firearms in the line of duty. Similarly, law-abiding citizens who use firearms to protect themselves, their families, and their homes against violent felons should not be subject to lawsuits by the violent felons who sought to victimize them.
Contact your legislators and ask them to support HR 648 - the "Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2003". Go to the site below to send your Congressman and two Senators a direct message:
NOTE: Be sure to cut, copy and paste this into your email and forward this to everyone you know who believes that Americans should be guaranteed a basic right to protect their own families in their own homes. Thank you!
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