D.C. Chapter to Freep Brady Campaign Event Featuring Bill Clinton, Thur. Dec. 4, 2003

[Harry Tuttle]

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us this Thursday, December 4, in our nation's murder capital (a gun free zone) as we freep Bill Clinton and the Brady Campaign at their meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Brady Bill.

During the '90s, the Clinton administration and their fellow gun-grabbers worked overtime exploiting every gun related tragedy from Waco to Columbine in an effort to demonize responsible gun owners and to strip as many Americans as possible of their Second Amendment rights. All the while they ignored or downplayed the millions of times guns were used to defend and protect people from crimes and assaults.

We'll be out there to remind them that we will stand fast against their campaign to infringe our rights.

When: Thursday, December 4, 2003 from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Where: The public sidewalk in front of the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Bring: Signs, flashlights, American and Gadsden flags.

A permit for this protest has been submitted with the Metropolitan Police.

The D.C. Chapter's rules for protesting, as always, will be in effect. Briefly, they are: No Violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.

The D.C. Chapter reserves the right to determine who can participate in this demonstration and to exclude signs in bad taste.

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

Gun-free Zone? Better to call it a victim's disarmament zone.

 

[El Tejon]

I wonder if Billy's bodyguards will surrender their weapons while in D.C.?

Guns are for me, not thee, serf.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I wonder if Billy's bodyguards will surrender their weapons while in D.C.?

The day after it rains shiny new silver dollars.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

Bill's bodyguards are Secret Service Folks who use your tax dollars to pay the rent on the guest house in Bill & Hillary's house in New York.

The amount of the "rent payment" covers the mortgage on the whole property

 

[Hawk]

Bill's bodyguards are Secret Service Folks who use your tax dollars to pay the rent on the guest house in Bill & Hillary's house in New York. The amount of the "rent payment" covers the mortgage on the whole property

Nope:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/landlord.htm

Don't get me wrong - he did enough stuff (AWB chief among 'em) to irritate me for a lifetime; it's not necessary to pile internet rumors on top of the steaming pile of true stuff.

 

[gun-fucious]

So who is going to take a stand for Liberty?

 

[geekWithA.45]

Um...

What's a gadsden flag?

edited to add:

Uh, nevermind. Found one.

 

[gun-fucious]

anybody?

 

[gun-fucious]

working on a new sign for tonight

SARAH
BRADY
KILLS
your Constitution

i have a really nice grim reaper/ ghost of patriots past outfit RTG

 

[Master Blaster]

Perhaps a sign asking Sarah how her son likes the sniper rifle she bought him for X-mas???

Guns for me but not for thee serf.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

about 12 of us were there tonight

Clinton showed up at 7

Sam Donaldson ducked out the back at 7:30
and Clinton left at 8
We were informed by the SS that if we blocked the rear driveway
the handcuffs were coming out and we were going to jail

we waited on the sidewalk and watched X42 light up a big cigar as he was driven off in a Tahoe

i talked with a guy who was inside

he said they started with the largest ballroom in the hotel 4 years ago
and now they are in the smallest

 

[Harry Tuttle]

WASHINGTON Dec. 4 — Veterans of the antigun wars gathered Thursday to mark the recent 10-year anniversary of former President Clinton's signing into law the Brady bill, which requires background checks of prospective gun buyers.

"We had a huge need: gun deaths were high," said Sarah Brady, who became a leading gun-control advocate after her husband, then-White House press secretary James Brady, was shot in an assassination attempt on former President Reagan in 1981. "We had a simple message: Keep guns out of the wrong hands."

The federal law that mandates background checks requires the National Instant Check System the FBI background check system firearms dealers are required to use to search all available databases.

Since Clinton signed the Brady bill on Nov. 30, 1993, 1 million illegal gun buyers have been stopped from buying a gun at a gun store, according to the Brady Campaign. Among those not allowed to purchase the guns were convicted felons, fugitives and drug addicts.

While there was much to celebrate for 400 guests, a re-emerging theme was that gun-control advocates must prepare to fight the same old battles.

The ban on assault weapons is set to expire in September 2004, and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has said that he will not call for a vote on the renewal of it. Sarah Brady said she hopes President Bush will put pressure on Republican leaders to bring the assault weapons ban up for a vote.

Gun-control advocates also want to fill loopholes in the law. They want background checks to be imposed on the sale of firearms by private collectors operating at gun shows, flea markets and other public places. Private collectors are not affected by the Brady law.

Although the Brady Campaign doesn't endorse candidates in primaries, Sarah Brady said, "All of the candidates have been supportive of the Brady bill. Howard Dean has not been good on the issue. He's reluctantly come out for the Brady law. He wants little to do with it. Others support it, but he is reluctant."

Jim Brady, who uses a wheelchair as a result of the shooting, recalled how tough it was going up against the National Rifle Association, which he called the "evil empire," but when Clinton signed the legislation, he gave real hope to victims of gun-related crimes.

Clinton, who frequently butted heads with the NRA as Arkansas governor and later as president, said it made him feel good to think he's still on the group's enemy list.

"The thing that bothers me most about this whole debate is that the politics is so disconnected from what's really going on," he said.

"Keep working" he told about 400 guests. "Understand this is combat and we've got to get better at this."

The man who shot Reagan, John Hinckley Jr., is seeking permission to leave a psychiatric hospital unescorted for visits with his parents.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

Former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) shakes hands with James Brady, right, former press secretary to President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites), as they are applauded by NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, middle, during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Brady Bill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)


http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=UTF-8&p=brady&c=news_photos

 

[BowStreetRunner]

enough to make one