WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Dear Brigade, As most of you know, the Second Amendment Sisters have organized a pro-gun rally this Sunday, Mothers Day, in Washington DC to counteract the "Million Mom" Gun Grab Fest. What you may not know is that many other protests will be held in cities across America by women in support of our Second Amendment. To my family's surprise, I announced that I will not be available for our traditional brunch, but will be going to DC, to stand with SAS on Mothers Day. How about you? We need you to help us send a Million Moms of our own, to let Congress know that these women do not speak for all mothers. We are women, we are moms, and we are PRO-GUN! Please visit the SAS website at http://www.sas-aim.org/ for more info. Also check out Free Republic at http://www.freerepublic.com for the latest info on local pro-gun rallies. For the Cause, Linda PS -- Also included below is an excellent column by Ann Coulter: "Annie's Got Her Gun" --------------------- SAS-AIM Press Release NEWS FROM THE SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS 18484 Preston Road, Suite 102 #141 Dallas, TX 75252 World Wide Web: http://www.SAS-AIM.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information: Kimberly J. Watson, Spokesperson Toll-free Phone: (877) 271-6216 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SECOND AMENDMENT SISTERS READY TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON DALLAS, TEXAS - Second Amendment Sisters, Inc., is pleased to announce that Texas State Representative Suzanna Gratia-Hupp will be the keynote speaker at their Armed Informed Mothers' March (A.I.M.M.) on Sunday, May 14, 2000 in Washington DC. The event will begin at 9 AM at the northwest quadrant of the Washington Monument. In addition to Ms. Hupp, the rally will feature speeches by Larry Klayman, Chairman of Judicial Watch, and women from across the country who represent the 2.5 million people whose lives are saved by guns every year. It will conclude with a march to the Capitol Building. Representative Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, a leading proponent for the right of citizens to carry concealed weapons, became involved in Second Amendment issues in 1991. She was a patron in a Killeen, Texas restaurant when an armed man entered and began shooting, killing twenty-one people including Ms. Hupp's parents. She believes that had she been allowed by law to carry her legally owned sidearm into the restaurant, she would have been able to stop the man because she had a clear shot at him from a distance of less than 5 yards. Second Amendment Sisters Inc. is a grass-root self-defense and safety- education advocacy group based in Dallas. Its founders are five women from five different states who were tired of the stereotypical portrayals of gun owners and the erosion of personal freedoms. "We all own firearms or know someone who does. I used one to save my life from an attacker," said Debra Collins, Colorado State Coordinator for SAS. "The anti-gun factions constantly say if it saves on life it's worth it. Well my firearm saved one life - mine - and I promise you my mother thinks it was worth it." Recent research has shown that in jurisdictions where strict gun control measures are in effect, the result is almost always that GUN CONTROL INCREASES VIOLENT CRIME, by shifting the balance of power to favor criminals and disarming helpless victims. This is why SAS opposes measures such as legislation that would make trigger locks mandatory with every handgun purchase, as well as licensing and registration of guns and gun owners. "We already know that licensing and registration will be counterproductive because the U.S. Supreme Court (Haynes v. U.S., 390 US 85, 1968) has unequivocally ruled that criminals cannot be legally required to register their firearms, and they cannot be convicted for possessing an unregistered firearm. It makes no sense at all to enact laws which can only be used to convict previously law-abiding citizens while criminals get a free pass. It is time to start enforcing the existing violent crime laws, rather than wasting taxpayer money on harassment and punishment of non- violent firearms owners. It is time for the media and the politicians to help people who want to defend themselves against crime, rather than passing laws which only help the criminals. " said SAS co-founder Kim Watson. Second Amendment Sisters supports the extremely successful firearms safety education programs that have been developed by firearms owner groups and have been available to firearms owners for decades. Safety programs sponsored by national and local clubs and organizations have been responsible for a nearly 50% decline in the number of children's shooting accidents over the last 25 years, despite increases in population and number of guns in circulation. A six-year study done at Johns Hopkins University found that the majority of children aged 0-14 died as a result of "other causes" (35.3%). Next were vehicle occupant (17.0%) and drowning (13.4%), while accidental shootings ranked lowest, at 2.9%. Second Amendment Sisters can be reached toll-free at 877-271-6216 or via their web site at www.sas-aim.org. ---------- Annie's Got Her Gun by Ann Coulter Magazine, August 1999. About a year ago, a mugger just waltzed right up to me on a bridge here in Washington, D.C. It was early evening, and I was a stone's throw from my apartment in what is considered a nice neighborhood, as neighborhoods go in the Murder Capital -- the richly deserved nickname for the nation's capital. I won't belabor my cunning and completely fortuitous escape, except to say that for the few minutes I was standing there waiting to be mugged, I was fuming. I knew he knew that I didn't have a gun. It's illegal to carry a handgun here in the Murder Capital. Not merely illegal but a felony that carries up to a five-year maximum sentence. Just as I could look at my prospective mugger and see that he was not the kind of fellow who would be a fanatic about property rights and bodily integrity, he could see from 50 yards that I was not the type to be committing felonies. I wanted a gun, but more than that I wanted him to think I might possibly have a gun. I wanted him to at least accord me the respect I get from criminals in other cities, where they have to exercise a little creativity, lying in wait, sneaking up from behind, hiding in bushes and dark alleyways - -- that sort of thing. No, in D.C. muggers just walk right up to you on a brightly lit street. As an apparently law-abiding citizen, I am ostentatiously defenseless. But let's forget about completely defenseless me on the bridge for a moment. The framers' primary reason for including the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights was to allow people to protect themselves from tyrannical government -- just like the vastly overrated First Amendment. As Alexander Hamilton observed cheerily in Federalist 29, if the government were to "form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens." Some may be willing to rely on withering editorials in the New York Times to preserve their liberty. I'm counting on a sleek and tasteful SIG- Sauer. If the courts started interpreting the Second Amendment the way they interpret the First, we'd have a right to bear nuclear arms by now. Interestingly, the Supreme Court is incessantly having to remind Americans of their First Amendment rights, issuing more than 100 decisions in the past half century alone. The Court has ruled on the Second Amendment in only a handful of cases, the last time in 1939. But still, about half the citizenry deeply, passionately believe that they have a right to bear arms. Give the First Amendment no support from the courts for over half a century and see if anyone remembers why we're supposed to let Nazis march in Skokie. But the half of the country that intuitively assumes the right to bear arms doesn't live in my neighborhood. That's why I'm getting exasperated with the constitutional argument. Too few people -- girl people in particular -- appreciate the central point: Guns are our friends. When it comes to the First Amendment, everyone gets warm patriotic feelings, tearing up over John Stuart Mill's marketplace of ideas. They think immediately of our right to engage in political speech, scientific research, avant-garde art, and to burn politicians in effigy (or maybe that's just me). Speech on the fringe, like Aryan Nation propaganda or Hustler magazine is understood to be an unpleasant, if inevitable, by- product of a freedom we cherish. But with the Second Amendment, it's all Hustler magazine. No upside, just school shootings and all those apocryphal "gun accidents." (In 1945, for every million Americans there were 350,000 firearms and 18 fatal gun accidents. By 1995, there were 850,000 firearms per million, and fatal gun accidents had fallen to six.) Guns are our friends, because in a world without guns I'm what is known as prey. Almost all females are. Any male -- even the sickliest 98-pound weakling -- could overpower me in a contest of brute force against brute force. For some reason, I'm always asked whether I wouldn't prefer a world without guns. No, I'd prefer a world in which everyone is armed, even the criminals who mean to cause me harm. Then I'd at least have a fighting chance. What the arms-control faithful really want is a world without violence, not a world without weapons. These are the ideological descendants of the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which purported to outlaw war. But we can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male and testosterone causes homicide. A world with violence -- that is to say, with men -- but without weapons is the worst of all possible worlds for women. As the saying goes, God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal. Prey like me use guns against predators about a million times a year. Fifteen different studies (including those sponsored by gun control advocates) have arrived at the following estimates: at the low end, several hundred thousand times per year; at the high end, several million. I especially want potential assailants to have to worry that I might be carrying. In numerous surveys, criminals have confirmed the blindingly obvious point that they are disinclined to attack a victim who might be armed. Countries with those fabulously low crime rates and fabulously fascistic gun control laws -- such as Canada, the Netherlands, and Britain - -- have more burglaries of occupied homes per capita than we do. Canada's burglary rate of occupied homes is more than three times that of the armed-to-the-teeth U.S. Although the murder rate is lower in Britain, rape, robbery, burglary, and assault are all substantially higher there than in the U.S. It must be said, the framers were not insensate to the crime-prevention qualities of firearms. In the late eighteenth century, standing armies had become nothing more than roving bands of criminals. The Second Amendment was, in part, a response to those early cases of police brutality. (Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?) Thomas Jefferson, for example, copied into his book of favorite quotes an observation by Cesare Beccaria, the founder of the science of criminology: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." [From: "On Crimes and Punishments"] That night in Washington, by the way, I was rescued by a man. I'm all for men; I like to have them around all the time. But sometimes they can't be. Sometimes they have to go buy things for us. More pertinently, sometimes they're ex-husbands coming after us with machetes. We live in a world in which men are supposed to freeze when we say no, our bodily integrity is sacrosanct, we are autonomous beings, I am woman, hear me roar -- but we're not allowed to defend ourselves from a physical attack with the only effective means possible. Just stand waiting on the bridge and hope for a nice man to come along. ------------- end -------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T H E I N T E R N E T B R I G A D E Linda Muller - WebMaster Post Office Box 650266, Potomac Falls, Virginia 20165 Email: http://www.buchanan.org/form-contact.html Web: http://www.buchanan.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have You O F F I C I A L L Y E N L I S T E D Yet? http://www.buchanan.org/form-enlistment.html **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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