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In Michigan's 15th District: Constitution 1 - Sara
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In Michigan's 15th District: Constitution 1 - Sarah Brady 0,
Says Second Amendment Foundation
To: State Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation,
425-454-7012
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Voters in Michigan's
strongly Democratic 15th Congressional District have chosen the
Bill of Rights over a "Bill of Goods" as they soundly rejected
Congresswoman Lynn Rivers, who campaigned on gun control and
recruited the nation's leading anti-gun activists to stump for her.
"Lynn Rivers brought in Sarah Brady and other celebrity
anti-gunners to sell 15th District voters a bogus 'bill of goods'
by making gun control a central issue of her campaign," said Alan
Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. "But even
hardcore Democrats in Michigan's most Democratic region chose the
Bill of Rights instead, and gave veteran pro-gun Congressman John
Dingell a decisive primary victory."
Over the past two years, since losing the White House,
Democratic strategists have urged the party to soften its position
on gun control. Rivers obviously ignored that advice, along with
recent Zogby poll results showing that 75 percent of American
citizens believe the Second Amendment protects their individual
right to keep and bear arms.
Instead of backing away from guns, she invited Brady and several
gun control proponents to descend upon Michigan during the primary
campaign, pulling no punches in their attempts to portray the
moderate Dingell as a gun fanatic.
"It appears Michigan voters are smart enough to tell who the
real fanatics are," Gottlieb observed. "Sarah Brady simply could
not sell her extremist message on gun control to Democrats in
Detroit and Ann Arbor. Lynn Rivers was not the only loser in this
primary race, and the whole country recognizes that. The gun
control issue is even a bigger loser. Democrats, and likewise
Republicans, should keep that in mind."
Gottlieb noted that Dingell hardly mentioned his solid pro-gun
record during the campaign. The Rivers camp made guns an issue.
"Lynn Rivers and a vocal minority of gun control outsiders tried
to turn the election into a referendum on run rights," Gottlieb
noted. "They tried to woo voters with their Utopian gun control
message. In the end, Michigan's 15th District Democrats chose civil
rights over a siren's song. This is yet one more case where the
Constitution wins and Sarah Brady loses."
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 600,000 members and supporters
and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public
about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded
successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los
Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun
owners. Current projects include several concealed carry lawsuits,
a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus brief &
fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an
individual right.
http://www.usnewswire.com
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/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
08/07 18:03
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/0807-143.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Says Second Amendment Foundation
To: State Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation,
425-454-7012
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Voters in Michigan's
strongly Democratic 15th Congressional District have chosen the
Bill of Rights over a "Bill of Goods" as they soundly rejected
Congresswoman Lynn Rivers, who campaigned on gun control and
recruited the nation's leading anti-gun activists to stump for her.
"Lynn Rivers brought in Sarah Brady and other celebrity
anti-gunners to sell 15th District voters a bogus 'bill of goods'
by making gun control a central issue of her campaign," said Alan
Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. "But even
hardcore Democrats in Michigan's most Democratic region chose the
Bill of Rights instead, and gave veteran pro-gun Congressman John
Dingell a decisive primary victory."
Over the past two years, since losing the White House,
Democratic strategists have urged the party to soften its position
on gun control. Rivers obviously ignored that advice, along with
recent Zogby poll results showing that 75 percent of American
citizens believe the Second Amendment protects their individual
right to keep and bear arms.
Instead of backing away from guns, she invited Brady and several
gun control proponents to descend upon Michigan during the primary
campaign, pulling no punches in their attempts to portray the
moderate Dingell as a gun fanatic.
"It appears Michigan voters are smart enough to tell who the
real fanatics are," Gottlieb observed. "Sarah Brady simply could
not sell her extremist message on gun control to Democrats in
Detroit and Ann Arbor. Lynn Rivers was not the only loser in this
primary race, and the whole country recognizes that. The gun
control issue is even a bigger loser. Democrats, and likewise
Republicans, should keep that in mind."
Gottlieb noted that Dingell hardly mentioned his solid pro-gun
record during the campaign. The Rivers camp made guns an issue.
"Lynn Rivers and a vocal minority of gun control outsiders tried
to turn the election into a referendum on run rights," Gottlieb
noted. "They tried to woo voters with their Utopian gun control
message. In the end, Michigan's 15th District Democrats chose civil
rights over a siren's song. This is yet one more case where the
Constitution wins and Sarah Brady loses."
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 600,000 members and supporters
and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public
about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded
successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los
Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun
owners. Current projects include several concealed carry lawsuits,
a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus brief &
fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an
individual right.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
08/07 18:03
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/0807-143.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878