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MMM gives 'Time-Out' awards!
Josey1
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MMM gives 'Time-Out' awards!
The Time Out Chair features people, organizations and corporations who put sensible gun practices on the back burner in favor of the out of touch gun lobby. Mom's know who's been bad and who's been good and we want to make sure that everyone knows who is in the time out chair and why they deserve it.
Time Out Chair
1. John Lott
2. Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA)
3. John Ashcroft
4. Eddie Eagle Program
5. Lowe's Hardware
6. Michigan Governor John Engler
1. Pro-gun "scholar" John Lott gets a seat in the Time Out Chair for using the September 11 terrorist attacks to call for more guns on airplanes. Lott, who authored the widely-discredited book "More Guns, Less Crime," suggested in a September 28 column in the Wall Street Journal that, not only should pilots be armed but that passengers should also be allowed to carry guns on planes. He then exploits a national tragedy even further by saying our nation would be safer if more people carried hidden handguns everywhere, notjust on planes.
Lott fails to recognize a simple fact: more guns equal more violence. America is safer when steps are taken to prevent terrorists from getting weapons in the first place, not when citizens are engaged in gunfights on airplanes or on our streets.
2. The bogus group Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA)gets a seat in the Time Out Chair for its negative and misleading advertising campaign against Virginia Attorney General candidate Donald McEachin. The LEAA, a "front" group for the National Rifle Association that often does the bidding of the NRA, spent more than $1 million on its attack ads, which distorted facts about Mceachin's voting record and called him "dangerous for Virginia's families." The specious ad campaign saturated the airwaves and helped prevent McEachin from winning the race.
The LEAA, which was founded in 1991 with seed money from the NRA, does not represent the majority opinion of law enforcement professionals. Unlike other state and national law enforcement organizations, membership in LEAA is not limited exclusively to law enforcement. Anyone may join the LEAA by simply paying membership dues, and NRA members are routinely solicited to join.
3. Time Out for former Missouri Senator John Ashcroft, whose past record shows he's not interested in protecting our kids from gun violence. His recent unsuccessful bid for re-election was heavily funded by the NRA. While he was Senator of Missouri he voted to weaken the Brady law, and he voted against a ban on importing foreign high-capacity magazines. He's against background checks at gun shows, against child safety locks, and against the federal assault weapons ban. In 1999 he championed a ballot measure which would have made it easy for convicted felons to carry concealed loaded weapons in daycare centers, sports arenas and on school grounds. Thankfully the people of Missouri rejected that idea. As Attorney General, Ashcroft will weaken gun laws and put our families at risk.
4. A long sit in the Time Out Chair for the NRA Foundation's Eddie Eagle Program for touting education as gun safety when studies have shown that gun safety training does NOT deter children and youth from picking up and playing with guns, and for using a cute friendly cartoon character to market guns to children. For further information see also: Violence Policy Center's Joe Camel With Feathers Hardy,M. et al. A firearm safety program for children: they just can't say no. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 17(4):216-221. 1996. Glick, S. and Sugarmann, J. Joe Camel with feathers: how the NRA with gun and tobacco industry dollars uses its Eddie Eagle Program to market guns to kids. Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, November 1997. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Transcript. ABC 20/20 Friday, May 21,1999.
5. In the biggest cave in since Mt. St. Helen's, this Time Out Award goes to the Lowe's Hardware Stores who, in record time, went from dealing with safety issues and scientific research to caving in to NRA opinion and paranoia. Too bad the management of Lowe's forgot that the real bottom line is life.
6. The Time Out Chair for Michigan Governor John Engler, who kicked off the new year by signing Public Act 381, which takes affect July 1, 2001, making almost any Michigan adult able to carry a concealed handgun nearly anywhere. The law says county gun boards must issue concealed weapon permits as long as applicants are at least 21, haven't been convicted of a crime and don't have a history of mental illness. Except for schools, large arenas, churches, hospitals and bars, the rest of the state of Michigan will be a pack-your-gun zone, including courthouses and state offices. Handgun owners will no longer need to demonstrate a need to qualify for the three-year permits formerly issued. Law enforcement agencies say that comparing similar laws in other states shows the number of people allowed to carry concealed weapons could increase from 20,000 to 200,000.
Mom's Apple Pie Awards go to those who recognize the problem of gun violence in America and do somethign about it. These outstanding individuals are champions for bringing common sense arguments to counter the out of step gun lobby.
Ms. Ann Landers, Zany Brainy, Senator Barbara Boxer, Youth Alive!, Mike Duggan, Yoko Ono, Jim McGreevey, Sen. Jack Reed
http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/archive.php?aid=397
"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
The Time Out Chair features people, organizations and corporations who put sensible gun practices on the back burner in favor of the out of touch gun lobby. Mom's know who's been bad and who's been good and we want to make sure that everyone knows who is in the time out chair and why they deserve it.
Time Out Chair
1. John Lott
2. Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA)
3. John Ashcroft
4. Eddie Eagle Program
5. Lowe's Hardware
6. Michigan Governor John Engler
1. Pro-gun "scholar" John Lott gets a seat in the Time Out Chair for using the September 11 terrorist attacks to call for more guns on airplanes. Lott, who authored the widely-discredited book "More Guns, Less Crime," suggested in a September 28 column in the Wall Street Journal that, not only should pilots be armed but that passengers should also be allowed to carry guns on planes. He then exploits a national tragedy even further by saying our nation would be safer if more people carried hidden handguns everywhere, notjust on planes.
Lott fails to recognize a simple fact: more guns equal more violence. America is safer when steps are taken to prevent terrorists from getting weapons in the first place, not when citizens are engaged in gunfights on airplanes or on our streets.
2. The bogus group Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA)gets a seat in the Time Out Chair for its negative and misleading advertising campaign against Virginia Attorney General candidate Donald McEachin. The LEAA, a "front" group for the National Rifle Association that often does the bidding of the NRA, spent more than $1 million on its attack ads, which distorted facts about Mceachin's voting record and called him "dangerous for Virginia's families." The specious ad campaign saturated the airwaves and helped prevent McEachin from winning the race.
The LEAA, which was founded in 1991 with seed money from the NRA, does not represent the majority opinion of law enforcement professionals. Unlike other state and national law enforcement organizations, membership in LEAA is not limited exclusively to law enforcement. Anyone may join the LEAA by simply paying membership dues, and NRA members are routinely solicited to join.
3. Time Out for former Missouri Senator John Ashcroft, whose past record shows he's not interested in protecting our kids from gun violence. His recent unsuccessful bid for re-election was heavily funded by the NRA. While he was Senator of Missouri he voted to weaken the Brady law, and he voted against a ban on importing foreign high-capacity magazines. He's against background checks at gun shows, against child safety locks, and against the federal assault weapons ban. In 1999 he championed a ballot measure which would have made it easy for convicted felons to carry concealed loaded weapons in daycare centers, sports arenas and on school grounds. Thankfully the people of Missouri rejected that idea. As Attorney General, Ashcroft will weaken gun laws and put our families at risk.
4. A long sit in the Time Out Chair for the NRA Foundation's Eddie Eagle Program for touting education as gun safety when studies have shown that gun safety training does NOT deter children and youth from picking up and playing with guns, and for using a cute friendly cartoon character to market guns to children. For further information see also: Violence Policy Center's Joe Camel With Feathers Hardy,M. et al. A firearm safety program for children: they just can't say no. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 17(4):216-221. 1996. Glick, S. and Sugarmann, J. Joe Camel with feathers: how the NRA with gun and tobacco industry dollars uses its Eddie Eagle Program to market guns to kids. Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, November 1997. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Transcript. ABC 20/20 Friday, May 21,1999.
5. In the biggest cave in since Mt. St. Helen's, this Time Out Award goes to the Lowe's Hardware Stores who, in record time, went from dealing with safety issues and scientific research to caving in to NRA opinion and paranoia. Too bad the management of Lowe's forgot that the real bottom line is life.
6. The Time Out Chair for Michigan Governor John Engler, who kicked off the new year by signing Public Act 381, which takes affect July 1, 2001, making almost any Michigan adult able to carry a concealed handgun nearly anywhere. The law says county gun boards must issue concealed weapon permits as long as applicants are at least 21, haven't been convicted of a crime and don't have a history of mental illness. Except for schools, large arenas, churches, hospitals and bars, the rest of the state of Michigan will be a pack-your-gun zone, including courthouses and state offices. Handgun owners will no longer need to demonstrate a need to qualify for the three-year permits formerly issued. Law enforcement agencies say that comparing similar laws in other states shows the number of people allowed to carry concealed weapons could increase from 20,000 to 200,000.
Mom's Apple Pie Awards go to those who recognize the problem of gun violence in America and do somethign about it. These outstanding individuals are champions for bringing common sense arguments to counter the out of step gun lobby.
Ms. Ann Landers, Zany Brainy, Senator Barbara Boxer, Youth Alive!, Mike Duggan, Yoko Ono, Jim McGreevey, Sen. Jack Reed
http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/archive.php?aid=397
"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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