Posted on 08/24/2007 6:07:39 AM PDT by yankeedame
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
August 23, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Gun control activists have declared Tuesday, Aug. 28, a "national day of protest to focus attention on the scourge of illegal gun trafficking."
The Brady Campaign, along with its Million Mom March chapters, said it will join the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH Coalition at demonstrations in cities across America.
Jackson's group chose Aug. 28 because it marks the 44th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic march on Washington.
As Cybercast News Service reported earlier, Jackson has attended a series of recent protests at a suburban Chicago gun store, which he blames for gun crimes in Chicago.
Anti-gun activists have confirmed more than twenty events so far, including a rally at a park in Newark, N.J., near the schoolyard where four college students were lined up and shot in the back of the head. Three of them died. Six people, two of them in this country illegally, have been arrested in connection with the case.
Activists also plan to protest at a Maryland gun store "that is responsible for the most crime guns found in Washington, D.C."
Other Aug. 28 protests and vigils are planned in the cities of Phoenix, Birmingham, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Diego, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, and Raleigh-Durham, to name some of them.
"The August 28 rallies will focus the public and push leaders at all levels of government to take action against the illegal gun market and to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals," the Brady Campaign said on its Web site.
In addition, gun control advocates said they are launching a statewide letter-writing in California to build support for a crime-fighting "microstamping" bill being considered once again by the State Legislature. (See Earlier Story)
"We can't achieve Dr. King's 'dream' of what America can be when we lose 32 people every day to gun murders," said Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke. "Dr. King's focus on civil rights and non-violence should lead us now to ask each other and our leaders, 'What are you going to do about gun violence?'"
The Brady Campaign argues that if tougher laws make it harder for criminals to get guns, there will be fewer "gun violence victims."
But Second Amendment groups say criminals who want guns will always get them. They insist that tougher laws will affect only law-abiding Americans who have the right to defend themselves.
Is the Reverend Jesse bringing his wife or mistress?
F’em
Just jesse ? What is the other justice brother doing.
The left is always willing to refocus the issue on their pet freedom limiting issues. My how we have changed from protecting freedoms and your library card.
I wonder if the Jacka$$ and his brain dead friends would march against criminal aliens with the same vigor. These criminal aliens are killing all manner of Americans in a variety of ways throughout America. Don’t lose the focus, throw this back in their faces.
The left, raise taxes, fund socialism and gun control. It’s all they know. It’s up to the reader to draw the connections between the left, socialism and gun control.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Jesse smells money.
Let’s hope this gets shot down.
We need a counterprotest - a National Day Supporting Constitutional Rights and Opposing Ignorant Demagogues.
Who are these "Activists" and what do they do for a living? I've always been curious. Number 2 I always thought that criminals were responsible for crimes. I guess that we ought to let the criminal go and lock up the gun. I guess their real reason is that there are some people who just deserve to be shot, and they know they fall into that category.
The Brady Campaign argues that if tougher laws make it harder for criminals to get guns, there will be fewer "gun violence victims."
The liars in the Brady scum ignore the fact that until 1968 there was no gun control except for registration of full auto, yet the crime levels were lower then than they are now. End of preaching to the choir.
I will celebrate that day. I am going to pop some caps in honor of our founding fathers.
....said it will join the Rev. Je$$e Jack$on'$ Operation PU$H Coalition at demonstrations in cities across America.
Was that ‘useful’ or ‘usual’? The shoe fits, either way.
Let’s all go out and buy a gun on the 28th.
Ammo too.
Jesse smells money.
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Possibly a franchise for one of his kids.
“Let’s all go out and buy a gun on the 28th.
Ammo too.”
Hmmm, my wife might buy that excuse, “Honey, I have to do this...it’s a protest against Jesse Jackson!” lol
Let’s see, a nice 7mm Rem Mag sounds good...although I’m also tempted by a 6.5 Grendel AR type rifle. ;-)
Maybe we can make that day “National Take Your Gun to Work” day!!
Why not just go out and buy your wife a gun???? That way, she won't mind the expenditure....LOL
Why are minorities so eager to abrogate their rights?
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