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Brady Campaign: Robert Ehrlich is Dead Wrong
U.S. Newswire
16 Sep 15:08
Brady Campaign: Robert Ehrlich Is Dead Wrong; AK-47 Assault Weapons
and Saturday Night Specials Don't Belong In Maryland Neighborhoods
To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks
Contact: Lesley Heilman of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence, 202-898-0792 or 202-390-4120 (cell, day of event)

News Advisory:

Congressman Bob Ehrlich, a candidate in the Maryland Governor's
race, is broadly characterizing himself as a "moderate" on issues
of interest to Marylanders. But his record on guns and gun
violence prevention is far from moderate -- his record on guns is
extreme. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the
Million Mom March will hold a press conference to discuss Ehrlich's
recent statements about potentially abolishing some of Maryland's
gun laws, and to highlight his dismal record on guns. Grassroots
activists will begin a leaflet campaign to provide specific
information on Ehrlich's record.

WHO:
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the
Million Mom March

WHAT:
A press conference to address Bob Ehrlich's extremist voting
record on gun violence prevention. Grassroots activists will begin
a leaflet campaign highlighting Ehrlich's record and his
relationship with the National Rifle Association.

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 18 at 10 a.m.

WHERE:
Silver Spring Metro Station
North & South side Colesville Rd. between East-West Highway and
Second Ave.
Parking available at the Giant grocery store on East-West
Highway

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"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

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Mentality of a Gun Controller
The end always justifies the means, any means, including lying, fraud, suppressing the facts and truth, misrepresentation, smoke and mirrors, anything to arrive at the justified objective for the betterment of all Mankind.

In the course of human events it has been demonstrated that freedom of thought is best protected by freedom of speech, and that freedom is best protected by the People's right to own and carry firearms. For this permits their banding together as militias, holistically comprising a united army of freemen, and this will best ensure the continuation of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

For talk is cheap! And worse than being inexpensive, it can be worse than useless if it serves merely to identify dissent as opposed to an inducement for action; for actions speak louder than words, and so does gunfire! Therefore, as regards the order of human freedoms, that which is most ingrained in each and every individual is his ability to think and reason, which should be primary and therefore first. Freedom of thought and expression became number one on the agenda of a group of privileged, wealthy, and powerful colonial aristocrats who gave up everything they had and owned to ensure our freedoms.

But the primary freedom of speech and expression takes a very secondary nature to one's natural right for self-defense when in an environment of despotism, tyranny, or a constant, immediate fear of domestic or foreign government attack. In such cases, the right to own and bear arms, our Second Amendment, shifts in order of priority and becomes the First order of business in preserving liberty. The Founders chose the natural order as opposed to the reactive one in terms of setting the priorities in the addendum to our Constitution as an afterthought, as our freedom from England had already been secured via our successful War of Independence.

At no time in our history has the question of our right to own firearms, unhampered by illegal government intrusion, been brought more clearly and forcefully to the fore than now, concerning the question of arming pilots. For it demonstrates not only the wrong-headedness of gun control, it shows also how government, more specifically government bureaucracy, always grasps at any and all straws to subvert both the will and the rights of the people.

The Bush White House has made it clear that it opposes arming pilots to prevent a repeat of the 9-11 airliner hijackings. This is odd: remember, President Bush was an Air Force National Guard fighter pilot. He personally experienced the military training that required not only superior capabilities to keep his jet under control for attack, but he was also required to carry and know how to operate a handgun. What role does the handgun play in aerial combat or bombing missions? The only purpose for military pilots carrying a handgun is for that most noble of all personal motives; self-defense.

The Bush administration relied on the input from three bureaucrats on this issue: Tom Ridge, a left-liberal that puts little or no stock in individual liberties as best articulated by Senator Ted Kennedy; John 'Quick Draw' McGaw, one of the BATF engineers of the slaughter of Randy Weaver's wife and teenaged son at Ruby Ridge; and Norman Mineta, a Bill Clinton holdover and Transportation Department chief. Bush offered that he made his decision based upon inputs from these gun-control heavy hitters.

But now, the issue has been resolved! Congress, the representatives of the American People, in our republican form of government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has finally spoken in virtual consensus! The Senate voted 87 to 6 to arm pilots. It's almost akin to a pure democracy where a clear majority rules. In both a republican as well as in a democratic sense, America has made its wishes known! But does this impress a hateful, despotic, his-way-or-the highway bureaucrat?

So if Mineta has been overruled by America, what's left? If lies, deception, fraud and misrepresentation haven't worked to force his narrow-minded opinion on the populace, then he will offer yet more of precisely the very same thing! This coincides with the mentality of the Million Mommies' fraud of 12 children a day and Michael Bellesiles exposed fraudulent best-selling book. Mineta has offered that it will cost the taxpayers $900 million to $1 billion to arm the pilots. That's a lie!

Real numbers are more like this: Joining a range - $200; cost of an eight hour pistol/revolver safety course offered by the same eee-vile NRA that trains police and other law enforcement officers - $40; cost of a simple .38 special revolver - $250; cost of training ammunition and targets - $100. Total cost? Five hundred dollars, American! Using other realistic estimates along with mine, the cost ranges from $42.5 million to $212.5 million, a lot less than Mineta's phony numbers. And that's assuming that pilots aren't motivated enough to absorb this cost totally by themselves!

Ted Lang is a veteran editorialist, and has written a regular newspaper column. Send him e-mail at tlang1@optonline.net.
http://www.patriotist.com/lang.htm

"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