“Guns & Mothers” to Air on PBS

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

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“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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[Copernicus]

Absolutely! That you carry a gun carries a stigma, by all means, hide the fact, as would a herpes victim of that fact! Don't let it get around that you do or society might begin to see it as acceptable in the same way that teenage pregnancy has become more accepted. /sarcasm

I am very suspicious of these rules, especially since they come unattributed.

The other "rule" -run first, fight later -is part of the doctrine known as "the duty to retreat". It puts you at a grave psychological and tactical disadvantage and should not be tolerated at any level.

The good news- when you are surrounded by gungrabbers and surrogate gungrabbers (the gunowners who believe in gun control crowd) you can fire in any direction and hit a hostile target.

Best regards,

[risk]

I saw about 20 minutes of this tonight and it was truly revolting. Safety was the only issue that I could find. If guns were safe, we wouldn't have been able to fire the shot that was heard around the world.

Safety will be the undoing of this nation.