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Friday, November 1, 2002 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Guns don't kill people - they just make it real easy."
- - Unknown
RHINO HERE:
"The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence" & the "Million Mom March", have released their "Dangerous Dozen" list of 12 candidates for Senate, the House and state governorships whose election could make the difference between common-sense gun laws and laws that make it easy for children and criminals to get guns. If you have the opportunity to vote against any of them - do so! Or, if any of your friends live in the relevant states, call & suggest they check out the Dangerous Dozen Website before they vote on Tuesday.
http://www.dangerousdozen.com
Here they are:
Senate candidates: Wayne Allard (R-CO), Norm Coleman (R-MN), Doug Forrester (R-NJ), Gordon Smith (R-OR), Jim Talent (R-MO). Gubernatorial candidates: Jeb Bush (R-FL), Robert Ehrlich (R-MD), Mike Fisher (R-PA), Bill Simon (R-CA). House incumbents: Joe Baca (D-CA), Phil Crane (R-IL), Tom Delay (R-TX-22), Dennis Hastert (R-IL-4), Richard Pombo (R-CA-11). Cliff Stearns (R-FL-6) House challengers: Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), Dick Monteith (R-CA).
Meanwhile the latest gun violence at The University of Arizona in Phoenix has attracted Moses himself; Charlton Heston. As he's done in the past when gun violence erupts in a particular city, he's headed for Phoenix to keynote a pro gun rally. Below is an open letter to Mr. Heston from Michael Moore, whose poignant movie, Bowling For Columbine, which I've raved too much about previously here on the blog, features Mr. Heston being interviewed by Moore at his Beverly Hills home wherein he states that the reason there are so many gun deaths each year in the U.S. is because of the "ethnic factor". HELLO!? Soon after the movie was released, Mr. Heston announced he had the early symptoms of Alzheimers. Think he remembers where he leaves his M-16.
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October 30, 2002
To: Charlton Heston, President, NRA
From: Michael Moore, Winner, NRA Marksman Award
Subject: Your Visit to Tucson Today in the Wake of Another School Shooting
http://www.michaelmoore.com/message/index.php
Dear Mr. Heston:
When you showed up in Denver to hold your pro-gun rally just days after the massacre at nearby Columbine High School, the nation was shocked at your incredible insensitivity to those who had just lost loved ones. When you came to Flint to hold another rally in the months after a 6-year old boy shot a 6-year old girl at a nearby elementary school, the community was stunned by your desire to rub its face in its grief.
But your announcement that you are on your way to Tucson today, just 48 hours after a student at the University of Arizona shot and killed three professors and then himself, to hold ANOTHER big pro-gun celebration -- this time to get out the vote for the NRA-backed Republican running for Congress -- well, sir, I have to ask you: Have you no shame?
I am asking that you not go to Tucson today. Do not cause any more grief, any more pain. Let the relatives and friends of the deceased mourn. Why show up to play the role of the bully, kicking these good people when they are down, just so you can prove that you have a right to your big, bad guns? These are not the actions of a once brave and decent man. They are the acts of a coward, as no man of courage would think of picking on his fellow citizens when they are so consumed with tragedy.
Obviously, you couldn't care less. Because to you, The Gun is supreme -- and wherever it is used to kill multiple people (preferably at a school), there shall we find you gloating about some misbegotten right you think you have to own a device that is designed to eliminate human life. Well, Mr. Heston, this time I think you have crossed the line. I hope that your efforts as a gun supremacist -- you are now, I understand, in the middle of a 12-state tour to help elect Republicans -- backfire on you in the surest way that it can: total rejection of you, the NRA, and the candidates you back come next Tuesday. The American people have had enough.
To the people of Tucson and the students at the University of Arizona, I am so sorry for the tragedy you have suffered, and I feel terribly sad that you will have to endure the sight of Charlton Heston and his gun nuts today. Take some solace in knowing that your fellow Americans by an overwhelming margin want tough gun laws -- and that the day of obtaining them is not far away. There is one small way to make sure Heston and the NRA are stopped in their tracks -- just check out the website of the man (http://www.grijalva2002.com/) they have come to Tucson to defeat. Let them pack their guns -- we will pack the polls!
Yours, Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
mike@michaelmoore.com
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