Posted on 03/22/2002 11:41:39 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Move over, Rosie O'Donnell: The newest "celebrity" anti-gun hypocrite is Sarah Brady.
Mrs. Brady "bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements," the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
Some people will do anything to tell a book. No doubt to increase interest in what otherwise would be a boring memoir, the gun rights opponent writes that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, "complete with scope and safety lock," at a gun shop in Lewes, Del.
"I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."
According to her book, the store ran federal Brady Law and state background checks with much ado. But the book suggests she did not have her son checked, as required by Delaware law.
Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori Sitler said the purchase could be illegal if Mrs. Brady did not say who she was buying the gun for and submit his "name, rank and serial number" for an inquiry.
"You can't purchase a gun for someone else," Sitler told the Daily News. "That would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got a problem right there."
Gun rights advocates were surprised to hear of Mrs. Brady's antics.
"We hope that it's innocuous and there's been no laws violated," said James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for National Rifle Association. "It's obviously interesting that Sarah would be purchasing firearms of any kind for anybody, given her championing of restrictive guns laws for everyone."
Seniors United Supporting the Second Amendment told NewsMax.com it was asking Delaware and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate "what appears to be a criminal act" by Mrs. Brady.
"Sarah Brady is infamous for her radical anti-Second Amendment positions and her work to strip the citizens if the United States of their civil rights. She is the head of an extremist group that is working to gut the Bill of Rights," the group said in a statement.
"Sarah Brady is typical of the anti-civil rights radicals," noted John Bender, executive director of SUSSA. "She wants to ban private transfers of guns for everyone but her and her elitist friends. If a black mother in a Delaware public housing apartment did this she would already be charged with a crime. I’m wondering if Delaware has different enforcement standards for rich white women.”
The group concluded: "Sarah Brady is one of the leaders in the anti-civil rights movement’s attempt to make all private transfers of firearms illegal. Along with other extremists she pushed Congress to make this type of straw purchase illegal. Law enforcement should show her what her work has accomplished."
Mrs. Brady became a media-adored opponent of the Second Amendment after her husband, James, White House press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan.
Sungirl, your going to win the prize for the most ignorant close minded statement by far. I grew up in the city and abhorred the idea of hunting, I felt the same way you do. THEN I moved to a rural area where hunting is so important the public schools are closed the first day of hunting season. Trust me when I tell you I know more hunters than you do. It is a way of life in our community.That being said, most, I would say 98% of life long hunters have more respect for the enviroment and wildlife than your average person.
Last yr. I had 32 (Yes I counted them) turkeys in my side yard, due to the fact that urban sprawl is taking over the land behind me. Just where do you think these turkeys are going to? It is called maintaining a balance. You just know the wrong people.
When most rational folks that support PETA realize that, they discontinue their support.
I think PETA should be pressed for refunds from pet owners that have supported them, or better yet, for fraud(nets you 3x the amount defrauded in most states) It's a class-action lawsuit just waiting to happen.
That's the way the media game works. A reporter begins the day or week with a theme, starts making calls to whomever in order to support the reporter's perspective. Those who don't are discarded until they locate THE opinion which concurs. Cameras are sent to location and soon we have "news".
Exactly wrong...NOT typical. If typical, please provide another example.
You are babbling right past all the proof. AND... I can't believe you think its a good idea to teach kids to kill animals. Very sad.
OH!!! Hell...if the PUBLIC schools shut down for the first day of hunting season ...then it MUST be VERY important! JEEZ!!! I didn't realize that. Good thing you follow public schools ideals!! GOd knows what you would be feeling without their influence.
I remember how all the men in the institution I worked at ..for many a moon... took the 2 weeks off for deer season too. Then came their stories and what they got away with...what they did....and how manly they felt.
Have a nice day.
Apparently you never had to grow up and never did anything stupid in your life (that I find terribly hard to believe....) which you don't do anymore.
You never made a case, never proved anything except that once I was childish. While displaying that you still are.
We never said that. We said we PREFER to harvest our own, overall. YOU are the one who is demanding a purist mindset. Therefore if you are demanding that of us, we will point out where you don't have it yourself. We don't mind that you eat meat, but we mind that you look down on us for something which is morally equivalent to what you do.
DUH.
The only case that you're proving is that you're ignorant to the point you can't see your own inability to think straight.
Exactly. While I still enjoy my beef, I am working on incorporating more wild game into my diet as I am able. It brings a much deeper level of fulfillment.. more than just being "full."
SUNGIRL: VERY enlightening......guilt and uncontrollable urges....
Did I say uncontrollable? Hmm... you must be hallucinating.
I said: "I can suppress it and never exercise that ability, but... ...why,"
I'm also wondering where I said I did feel guilty? I said I almost did, but had I been alone I would have taken a shot if it was presented. As for guilt, it was more concern for my daughter's ability to handle the situation...she seems as though she would be able to, but the way the deer were acting made me think this might not have been the time to shoot, for her sake.
Nope, not guilt.
But yes, we do feel sadness usually at least some, at the passing of a magnificent animal. But it is mixed with profound admiration and gratitude, something you have no idea about.
Have a nice life.
Now and then one of these delusional folk will have something click and wake up to the truth.Free Republic is a likely place for it to happen.
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