Posted on 09/01/2010 4:55:08 PM PDT by marktwain
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 15 huge advertisements promoting the 25th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference are up at prominent transit locations around the City of San Francisco, amounting to something of a coup for the Second Amendment Foundation.
You can see the ad that San Francisco MTA waived their anti-gun policy and allowed to run in order to avoid being sued at www.saf.org/SF-MTA_Ad.pdf.
SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, looking ahead eagerly to the Sept. 24-26 milestone conference, noted that the advertisements show a woman holding a shotgun and staring through a curtain, under the headline, "A violent criminal is breaking through your front door. Can you afford to be unarmed?" Gottlieb noted that the CalGuns Foundation assisted in the advertisement's preparation.
The silver anniversary conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. Gun rights activists and leaders from across the nation will attend.
What is remarkable about the advertisement is that it appears the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has violated its own guidelines, which prohibit advertising that "appears to promote the use of firearms." The MTA recently caused a flap by doctoring movie posters for a Will Farrell-Mark Wahlberg movie called "The Other Guys," removing handguns from the actors' hands and replacing them with a can of mace, a badge or just bare fists.
"We take this annual conference around the country," Gottlieb said, "to areas where our rights might be threatened. We're holding it in San Francisco this year because SAF was successful in overturning the city's 2005 handgun ban. Next year, we're holding it in Chicago, where SAF's lawsuit in McDonald v. City of Chicago led to the Supreme Court's ruling in June that applies the Second Amendment to the states.
"We suspect the MTA is allowing our ads in San Francisco despite their policy because they believed we were prepared to file a lawsuit on First and Second Amendment grounds if, for any reason, the city didn't take them," Gottlieb stated. "Knowing we were responsible for the McDonald victory over Chicago and the defeat of their own 2005 gun ban proposition, and probably aware of our litigation in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois and California, they did not want to lock horns with us again."
The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
SOURCE Second Amendment Foundation
San Francisco doesn’t care diddly-squat about the Constitution. Liberals regularly defecate on the Constitution, the law, Executive orders, court rulings and anything else you can think of that qualifies as lawful authority.
If they think they can get away with it.
They DO respect the ability of an opponent to take them on and give them holy hell in court and public opinion. In “Liberal Fascism” Jonah Goldberg quoted the descriptive phrase “bully worship” in summing up Liberalism. Just think about the sort of leaders, organizations, governments and whole philosophies they intrinsically side with in any given situation.
The 2nd Amendment Foundation and CalGuns was ready to take them on and the legal and legislative climate has shifted recently. San Fran Freako was afraid to go to court and lose, thereby establishing even more precedent. These people always shrink from a real fight.
What to do when your opponent is in retreat? Act like a democrat and pour the coal to them.
I live outside SF. It’s a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. I’d attend the conference but only go into the city is I must. I’ll pass.
My wife and I have gone up there a few times. I wonder if the town has any idea at all how much travel business it has lost as a result of the overt members of it populace?
About 12 years ago my wife an I decided to team up with some of her friends and attend an evening at the Hollywood Bowl. Only after we arrived on site did we find out that it was homosexual pride night.
We went inside and sat down. About half an hour into the performance, four guys came and sat behind the women and I. For the rest of the program they continued to make out and grope each other as if they were 12 years old, and wanted someone to take issue with them.
Frankly, I don’t care what they do. I just care where they do it, when they have to act this disgusting and juvenile.
It was disruptive for the most part because of the shuffling around and giggling. Honestly, these were 35 to 40 year old men. They were forever frozen in adolescence.
Well, when we walk around San Fran, we always seem to run into the more flamboyant. I just don’t care for it.
It grosses my wife and I out, and so we don’t go up there any more often than we have to.
I should state that we have cordial relationships with a few homosexual couples that conduct themselves decently in public, so this isn’t just a homophobic thing. I wouldn’t want to hang around heterosexuals who grab each others crotch in public either.
This will be great once it gets to Chicago.
Read closely - SFO Hyatt south of the airport in San Mateo county
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