“Guns & Mothers” to Air on PBS

Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. ^ | 5/6/03 | Maria Heil

[technochick99]

“Guns & Mothers” to Air on PBS

Second Amendment Sisters Spokesperson Featured in Documentary
Contact: Maria Heil of Second Amendment Sisters, 877-797-4857 (press only)
or email: press@2asisters.org

LAKEWAY, Texas, May 6, --The Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) today announced that Maria Heil is the featured “pro-gun” Mother in the upcoming “Guns & Mothers” documentary, which is scheduled to air on PBS’s “Independent Lens” during the week of May 11th.

Mrs. Heil is the National Press Coordinator and Legislative Liaison for SAS, and mother of four.

Guns and Mothers is produced and directed by Thom Powers of Sugar Pictures The documentary chronicles the lives of two activists on opposite sides of the gun control debate.

On the pro-rights side is Mrs. Heil, who first got involved in activism in March 2000 when she read on the so-called “Million” Mom March (MMM) website, “…regardless of the interpretation, the second amendment is irrelevant.” It was that one sentence which changed Heil’s direction in life. Read Mrs. Heil’s comments about the documentary

Frances Davis, who lives in Brooklyn, NY, lost her three sons to criminal violence between 1987 and 1993. Davis apparently wants to ban private ownership of guns, “Gun control, we do need it because I really feel that average citizens really should not be armed.” Ms. Davis is somewhat disillusioned with the so-called “Million” Mom March, as she stated on Mother’s Day 2001, “Last year, last Mothers Day, there was a big hype and everybody was talking about the Million Moms March and going to Washington. Well, it’s one day and it’s over, then you go back to your communities and nothing happens.”

Check for your local airing time http://www.pbs.org/whatson/index.html

Fast Facts-
-90% of all violent crimes in the U.S. do not involve firearms of any type. (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, 1998)

-Less than 1% of all firearms will ever be used in the commission of a crime. (FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994)

-20% of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just six percent of the population—New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, DC—and each has a virtual prohibition on private handguns. (Dr. Gary Kleck, University of Florida using FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1997)

Source-"Gun Facts" by Guy Smith.
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[Dan from Michigan]

Frances Davis, who lives in Brooklyn, NY,

I thought guns were banned in Brooklyn....

[technochick99]

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[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Noumenon]

...I really feel that average citizens really should not be armed

You can't engage some who relies on 'feelings' with logic, facts and reason. They lack the price of admission to any sort of civilised debate. Liberals and their gun-grabbing ilk who seek the destruction of a free society are unfit to live in that same society.

[technochick99]

Can you help with a ping or two?

[technochick99]

You can't engage some who relies on 'feelings' with logic, facts and reason.

True, but there's no law saying we can't fight emotion with emotion.

[The Red Zone]

Guns and Mothers? That would be a good name for a rock band.

[Mears]

She lost THREE sons? Good Lord,were they innocent bystanders or is there more to this than we will probably hear on PBS?

[Joe Brower]

I am compiling a list of FreeRepublic folks who are interested in RKBA topics. If you want off my ping-list, just let me know.

Conversely, FReepmail me if you want to be added.

And my apologies for any redundant pings.

[Dan from Michigan]

20% of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just six percent of the population—New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, DC—and each has a virtual prohibition on private handguns

Well, I have to correct PART of this statement. Detroit does not have a total ban on firearms. There's a lot of paperwork and it's a PITA, but there is no ban there. A Detroit ban would violate the preemption act in our state.

[from occupied ga]

Let me guess who will be shown in the best possible light and who will be the evil freak in the PBS show. Hmmm Maria Heil will be made out to be a weirdo and Davis will be the poor victims of those evil guns. Saw that in my crystal ball. Don't have to watch the show.

[from occupied ga]

Technically speaking NYC doesn't have a total ban either. If you are a celebrity you can get a permit to own and a permit to carry withou much difficulty. For anyone else just getting a permit to own is a nightmare and you will never ever get a permit to carry.

[JudgemAll]

Feelings and denial are all excuses to stop paying one's own debts in the name of paying them and being a "good" citizen.

[Basil Duke]

If this woman would stop and think about her belief that "average" citizens shouldn't be armed, she would have to concede that taking guns from normal Americans wouldn't do a thing to reduce gun violence. "Average" citizens do not drive around America's inner cities pumping lead into other "average" citizens who happen to be wearing the wrong color clothing or an especially appealing pair of tennis shoes. The sociopathic scum responsible for the vast majority of U.S. gun mayhem never seem to have the media light cast on them, nor do they receive the scorn of the soccer mom crowd who are only too quick to point a damning finger at rural hunters as the true, root cause of urban killings. Why?

[Bringbackthedraft]

The NY Sullivan law has been in existance for many years. I'm sure the guns in some areas of Brooklyn come from out of state and are not registered. They are in the hands of people who could never get them registered legally. All this amounts to is letting off steam. Guns will always find their way into Brooklyn and get into the hands of the wrong element. The criminal element will always find a way of getting what they need. You can't check every vehicle, boat and plane. They can smuggle them in sea cargo containers. Its a joke. They can't uphold the laws they have on the books. Anyone with the right machinery can start a cottage industry to produce them in a cellar, and it doesn't take much to do it

[Noumenon]

That's one approach, but as the saying goes, 'Don't argue with an idiot - they'll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.' My experience with this particular type of idiot is to recast the terms of debate and shift the argument to the fundamentals. Example: "Why aren't you taking facts into account? How does ignoring reality affect your position? Does the fact that your feelings have no correspondence to reality mean anything to you at all?

If they persist in stating false statistics, I counter with, "That's a lie." Not "that's not true," or "that isn't the case." I use "That's a lie." If they object, then state that if you persist in saying something that reality and experience contradict, then you're either ignorant or you're telling a lie - so which is it?

Raise the fundamental moral issue of self-defense - a concept that they are completely unwilling to face. I expose their cowardice and moral bankruptcy for what it is. That's their worst nightmare.

The idea is to put the irrational 'arguer' into a position where they're obliged to defend their position - a position that we all know is morally and logically indefensible.

[Travis McGee]

Very good TV debate tips!

[asformeandformyhouse]

“Gun control, we do need it because I really feel that average citizens really should not be armed.”

As opposed to the 'above-average' citizen? Let this woman speak long enough and she'll eventually state how only the 'elite' should own weapons.

[manic4organic]

Guns and Mothers? That would be a good name for a rock band.

Axl Rose and Zappa's old band have united.