Million Mom March comes up a bit short

[shermacman]

Behold the mind of a Barking Moonbat. Nick Coleman is unintentionally hysterical:
Million Mom March comes up a bit short

I have copied the opening paragraphs for your amusement and seething anger:

There were a million moms at the Cathedral of St. Paul Tuesday.

Minus 999,979.

Five years ago, the moms could have taken a run at a million. But five years ago is a long time, when you are talking about politics.

Five years ago, the Million Mom March turned out thousands against guns in St. Paul and then, on a beautiful Mother's Day in May of 2000, assembled three-quarters of a million strong in Washington, D.C., to demand that the nation's lawmakers put an end to the carnage.

It looked like they even had a chance. But that was then. Before 9/11, before President Bush let the ban on assault rifles lapse, before a government agency warned that terrorists can buy weapons easier than they can get on airplanes, before the National Rifle Association bought Congress. Before we stopped giving a rip.

 

[DWS1117]

Don't really know what to say to this. It would seem that this person is tucked safely inside his own little world. Judging by his writing style, I wonder if this individual is from across the pond?

 

[Harry Tuttle]

No way they had 750,000 back at MMM I,

There were more like 75,000 mommies
which is an impressive turn out,

but theres now way MMM I had more folkes in attendance
then the MLK "I had a dream" rally.

The MMM spin engine was based on lies, and i hope one day the Washington Post retracts their article that claimed the MMM I rally was the most attended in DC history.

Rosie O'Donnel had that number in a speech that Sunday afternoon.

It was pure BS based on the fact that the Park Service had stopped providing attendance figures and the press ran with the number provided by the MMM.

Kinda funny how their 10X inflation of the truth, now makes them seem 10X more irrelevant.

 

[DelayedReaction]

It looked like they even had a chance. But that was then. Before 9/11, before President Bush let the ban on assault rifles lapse, before a government agency warned that terrorists can buy weapons easier than they can get on airplanes, before the National Rifle Association bought Congress. Before we stopped giving a rip.

Being put on a watch list does not make you a terrorist. In fact, I have trouble seeing any kind of justification for denying someone on a list access to an airplane either.

 

[uvakat]

sorry felt uncomfortable with that up

 

[cuchulainn]

The MMM is nothing but a shell and a front. It was collapsing fast a few years ago, so Handgun Control Inc. absorbed it to keep the MMM name alive.

The two groups played it as "merger" and changed HCI's name to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence United with the Million Mom March (or some such ponderous name) -- but that was just PR. Without the so-called merger, the MMM would have gone the way of zoot suits, pet rocks, and other flash-in-the-pan fads.

Now, the MMM is nothing but a flowery apron that the Brady people don when they want to present their propaganda as coming from the mommy-grassroots rather than from D.C. lobbyists.

 

[Highland Ranger]

Boo-hoo . . . . another American hating journalist. Surprise surprise.

What nonsense; of the "82 a day" we need to subtract the criminal killings. SO that would leave us with how many? Like none?

No . . . Americans have wised up to bull$@#% and know that its not the guns, its the criminals.

If everyone on those airplanes on 9/11 had been packing, I'd still be taking my wife to lunch at Windows on the World . . . .

 

[Standing Wolf]

Maybe most of the Multitude of Moronic Moms grew up.

No wonder leftists weep real tears.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

Not to mention the fact that Coleman mindlessly parrots the MMMs fraudulent statistics.

Eight "children" under 18 are "shot to death" each day?

In the immortal words of Penn and Teller, BULL****!

According to the CDC, 1443 under-18 children died from firearm injuries in 2002, the last year they have numbers for. That's 3.95 per day, so the MMMers are already lying by a factor of two.

But wait... 423 of those were suicides. They were not "shot to death," which implies that someone else did it.

And 551 kids in the same age group committed suicide by some other means. Are we to imagine that the gun suicide kids would have been alive without guns? Or is it more likely they'd jump off a bridge or slit their wrists?

Seven were justifiably shot by cops.

115 were accidents and 872 were homicides. Add `em together to get 2.7 per day. Not quite eight, is it?

These aren't NRA numbers. These are CDC numbers. Why ever would the MMMers lie?

 

[ScorpioVI]

I found that article kinda funny actually, even a little pro-gun (in my mind).

 

[natedog]

While misleading, that article puts me in high spirits- makes me feel like the political tables have turned, and we're finally winning, and we'll look back on this whole 'gun control' thing in fifty years and remember it as a fad of the 80s and 90s. Or maybe not.