Bud Wiser
Member
The race for the Senate in the Peoples Demokratic Republik of Illinois is starting to heat up!
Will the voters vote for Freedom or more of Mayor Daley's Totalitarianism?
Will it be "Yes" for concealed carry & firearms freedom or just more of the same old Goosestepping & obedience to the Mayor that the Sheople in Illinois are so famous for?
Can you say Baaahhhh, Baaahhhh...????
Brady Blasts Keyes' stand on Gun Control
August 26, 2004
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Disabled gun control activist Jim Brady weighed in Wednesday on Republican U.S. Senate nominee Alan Keyes' declaration that the U.S. Constitution grants private citizens the right to own and carry machine guns, calling the remarks an "insane" call for a return to "the Al Capone days."
"He must have fallen on his head," Brady said of Keyes. "I was dumbfounded."
Brady, 63, former press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, was partially paralyzed in a 1981 assassination attempt. Brady, a native of Downstate Centralia, lives in Delaware, but sometimes makes endorsements in Illinois races.
Brady said if he lived in Illinois, he would vote for Democrat Barack Obama in the race.
"You don't hear Obama coming up with stuff like this," Brady told the Chicago Sun-Times. "I think he'll be Illinois' choice because we don't take kindly to going back to the Al Capone days."
A Keyes campaign official fired back that Brady is "sadly mistaken" because Obama's voting record in Springfield makes him "The Criminal's Best Friend."
Keyes, a former presidential candidate from Maryland, said Tuesday he supports a system in which people undergo different levels of training before they would be allowed to own and carry various sorts of weapons.
Keyes said the Second Amendment grants properly trained Americans the right to "the kind of weapons our ordinary infantry people have access to," including machine guns.
Brady said he has never heard anything like Keyes' views in the years he and his wife, Sarah, have been active in supporting gun control measures. "He's not appropriate for Illinois," Brady said.
Brady said he still considers himself a Republican, except "when I hear s--- like this."
Keyes' campaign responds
Bill Pascoe, Keyes' campaign manager, responded that Obama's votes as a state senator from Hyde Park have earned him the title "The Criminal's Best Friend."
Pascoe said Obama supported a bill to require police to knock before executing search warrants; helped kill a measure to allow some battered spouses to carry concealed weapons; opposed tougher penalties on some gang crimes, and voted against a bill that would have banned early release for convicted sexual abusers.
"It is Barack Obama and his record -- not law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional rights -- that is the real danger to public safety in Illinois," he said.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs defended the Democrat's record, saying it helped him win the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police.
"I think that speaks more eloquently than anybody in terms of who is on the side of protecting Illinois' families and communities," Gibbs said.
Petka, Keyes fire at Blagojevich, Obama for anti-gun rights vote and veto
August 25, 2004
By The Leader-Chicago Bureau
CHICAGO -- State Senator Ed Petka [R-Plainfield] and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes held a joint press conference Tuesday to express strong disapproval of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s August 20 veto of a bill Petka introduced that would protect citizens from prosecution if they used a firearm to defend themselves from an intruder.
Petka said he plans to ask the legislature to override during the fall session.
“The founding fathers did not intend us to live in a culture with police on every corner,†Petka told reporters. “People should be able to defend themselves.â€
Petka’s legislation was set into action shortly after Hale DeMar of Wilmette was charged with illegal possession of a handgun when he defended his two children by using a handgun to shoot a home intruder earlier this year.
Wilmette local ordinances ban handgun ownership.
Chicago Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama opposed Petka’s legislation this year in the Illinois Senate vote.
Republican Senate candidate, Alan Keyes, criticized Obama’s opposition to “allowing citizens to protect themselves.â€
“The police cannot possibility protect each and every citizen of Wilmette,†Keyes said. “There’s not enough money in the state to protect just the people of Wilmette, let alone the rest of the state.â€
Keyes said that police are “guardians of the law,†charged with making sure it is enforced. Restating Wilmette police chief’s statement that DeMar should have locked himself and his children in a room and called for police assistance, Keyes said that expecting police to protect them is unreasonable.
At one point during the press conference, Keyes defended the constitutional right to “bear arms†which, he said, means to carry them, not just own them. Reporters then asked if he supported the right to own and bear assault weapons such as Uzi machine guns.
Scott Fornek of the Chicago Sun Times assessed Keyes’ answer by writing:
Keyes only indirectly answered a reporter's question about whether he would "be comfortable if the entire society was walking around with Uzis, as long as they were properly trained."
"Have you ever been to Israel?" Keyes asked the reporter. "Because if you've ever been to Israel, you wouldn't ask that question. And in the midst of terrifying dangers, you walk around the streets of Israel and you see every other person carrying arms and Uzis and so forth and so on, and believe me, you do not feel less safe on that account."
With Obama on vacation, his spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Sun-Times Fornek, "Certainly [Obama] believes in the Second Amendment, but he also believes in common-sense gun safety laws, such as the federal ban on military-style assault weapons."
"If Alan Keyes truly was concerned about public safety, that would be his position, as well," Gibbs said.
Petka said he believes there are enough votes in the Illinois General Assembly to override the governor’s veto.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Asks if Alan Keyes is Serious About Legalizing Machine Guns
Alan Keyes Wants to Take Illinois Back to the 'Good Old Days' of the 1930s
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
Alan Keyes, the Maryland resident running for the Illinois Senate, said yesterday that machine guns should be legal.
Not semiautomatic assault weapons, mind you -- the guns that were outlawed 10 years ago. Mr. Keyes is for legal machine guns, which came under extraordinary federal regulation in the 1930s after the guns were misused by
another guy named Al -- Al Capone.
The manufacture of new machine guns was banned under the McClure-Volkmer Act of 1986.
Keyes' comments, published today in the Chicago Sun-Times, were made at a press conference in which he was criticizing "ideological extremism" of his opponent.
"Alan Keyes sees a country where every American should be armed to the hilt with the most deadly firepower imaginable," said Jim Brady, an Illinois native who served as President Ronald Reagan's press secretary. "I cannot fathom how he could come up with such a notion. It's insane."
There are only five days left when Congress is in session before the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban -- a law that President Bush pledged he'd renew as a candidate for President in 2000. If the ban expires, Alan Keyes will be able to fire semiautomatic assault weapons to his heart's content -- but there's no current legislation that will give him his machine guns.
Will the voters vote for Freedom or more of Mayor Daley's Totalitarianism?
Will it be "Yes" for concealed carry & firearms freedom or just more of the same old Goosestepping & obedience to the Mayor that the Sheople in Illinois are so famous for?
Can you say Baaahhhh, Baaahhhh...????
Brady Blasts Keyes' stand on Gun Control
August 26, 2004
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Disabled gun control activist Jim Brady weighed in Wednesday on Republican U.S. Senate nominee Alan Keyes' declaration that the U.S. Constitution grants private citizens the right to own and carry machine guns, calling the remarks an "insane" call for a return to "the Al Capone days."
"He must have fallen on his head," Brady said of Keyes. "I was dumbfounded."
Brady, 63, former press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, was partially paralyzed in a 1981 assassination attempt. Brady, a native of Downstate Centralia, lives in Delaware, but sometimes makes endorsements in Illinois races.
Brady said if he lived in Illinois, he would vote for Democrat Barack Obama in the race.
"You don't hear Obama coming up with stuff like this," Brady told the Chicago Sun-Times. "I think he'll be Illinois' choice because we don't take kindly to going back to the Al Capone days."
A Keyes campaign official fired back that Brady is "sadly mistaken" because Obama's voting record in Springfield makes him "The Criminal's Best Friend."
Keyes, a former presidential candidate from Maryland, said Tuesday he supports a system in which people undergo different levels of training before they would be allowed to own and carry various sorts of weapons.
Keyes said the Second Amendment grants properly trained Americans the right to "the kind of weapons our ordinary infantry people have access to," including machine guns.
Brady said he has never heard anything like Keyes' views in the years he and his wife, Sarah, have been active in supporting gun control measures. "He's not appropriate for Illinois," Brady said.
Brady said he still considers himself a Republican, except "when I hear s--- like this."
Keyes' campaign responds
Bill Pascoe, Keyes' campaign manager, responded that Obama's votes as a state senator from Hyde Park have earned him the title "The Criminal's Best Friend."
Pascoe said Obama supported a bill to require police to knock before executing search warrants; helped kill a measure to allow some battered spouses to carry concealed weapons; opposed tougher penalties on some gang crimes, and voted against a bill that would have banned early release for convicted sexual abusers.
"It is Barack Obama and his record -- not law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional rights -- that is the real danger to public safety in Illinois," he said.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs defended the Democrat's record, saying it helped him win the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police.
"I think that speaks more eloquently than anybody in terms of who is on the side of protecting Illinois' families and communities," Gibbs said.
Petka, Keyes fire at Blagojevich, Obama for anti-gun rights vote and veto
August 25, 2004
By The Leader-Chicago Bureau
CHICAGO -- State Senator Ed Petka [R-Plainfield] and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes held a joint press conference Tuesday to express strong disapproval of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s August 20 veto of a bill Petka introduced that would protect citizens from prosecution if they used a firearm to defend themselves from an intruder.
Petka said he plans to ask the legislature to override during the fall session.
“The founding fathers did not intend us to live in a culture with police on every corner,†Petka told reporters. “People should be able to defend themselves.â€
Petka’s legislation was set into action shortly after Hale DeMar of Wilmette was charged with illegal possession of a handgun when he defended his two children by using a handgun to shoot a home intruder earlier this year.
Wilmette local ordinances ban handgun ownership.
Chicago Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama opposed Petka’s legislation this year in the Illinois Senate vote.
Republican Senate candidate, Alan Keyes, criticized Obama’s opposition to “allowing citizens to protect themselves.â€
“The police cannot possibility protect each and every citizen of Wilmette,†Keyes said. “There’s not enough money in the state to protect just the people of Wilmette, let alone the rest of the state.â€
Keyes said that police are “guardians of the law,†charged with making sure it is enforced. Restating Wilmette police chief’s statement that DeMar should have locked himself and his children in a room and called for police assistance, Keyes said that expecting police to protect them is unreasonable.
At one point during the press conference, Keyes defended the constitutional right to “bear arms†which, he said, means to carry them, not just own them. Reporters then asked if he supported the right to own and bear assault weapons such as Uzi machine guns.
Scott Fornek of the Chicago Sun Times assessed Keyes’ answer by writing:
Keyes only indirectly answered a reporter's question about whether he would "be comfortable if the entire society was walking around with Uzis, as long as they were properly trained."
"Have you ever been to Israel?" Keyes asked the reporter. "Because if you've ever been to Israel, you wouldn't ask that question. And in the midst of terrifying dangers, you walk around the streets of Israel and you see every other person carrying arms and Uzis and so forth and so on, and believe me, you do not feel less safe on that account."
With Obama on vacation, his spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Sun-Times Fornek, "Certainly [Obama] believes in the Second Amendment, but he also believes in common-sense gun safety laws, such as the federal ban on military-style assault weapons."
"If Alan Keyes truly was concerned about public safety, that would be his position, as well," Gibbs said.
Petka said he believes there are enough votes in the Illinois General Assembly to override the governor’s veto.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Asks if Alan Keyes is Serious About Legalizing Machine Guns
Alan Keyes Wants to Take Illinois Back to the 'Good Old Days' of the 1930s
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
Alan Keyes, the Maryland resident running for the Illinois Senate, said yesterday that machine guns should be legal.
Not semiautomatic assault weapons, mind you -- the guns that were outlawed 10 years ago. Mr. Keyes is for legal machine guns, which came under extraordinary federal regulation in the 1930s after the guns were misused by
another guy named Al -- Al Capone.
The manufacture of new machine guns was banned under the McClure-Volkmer Act of 1986.
Keyes' comments, published today in the Chicago Sun-Times, were made at a press conference in which he was criticizing "ideological extremism" of his opponent.
"Alan Keyes sees a country where every American should be armed to the hilt with the most deadly firepower imaginable," said Jim Brady, an Illinois native who served as President Ronald Reagan's press secretary. "I cannot fathom how he could come up with such a notion. It's insane."
There are only five days left when Congress is in session before the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban -- a law that President Bush pledged he'd renew as a candidate for President in 2000. If the ban expires, Alan Keyes will be able to fire semiautomatic assault weapons to his heart's content -- but there's no current legislation that will give him his machine guns.
