Dan from MI
Member
I got this in my email. "Freedom" states alliance replaced anti-group Join Together when the Joyce Foundation $$$$ ran out.
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March 13, 2007
Dear John ,
As you may know, in a dismaying development, a highly partisan D.C. Court of Appeals struck down the right of the District of Columbia to reduce gun violence by banning handguns.
The Court, led by right wing Jurist Laurence Silberman, claimed that the Second Amendment -- despite decades of case law and Supreme Court precedent -- guaranteed an individual right to bear arms.
What is perhaps most baffling is why the Second Amendment was at issue in this case at all. You can own a shotgun or rifle in the District of Columbia, so the "right to bear arms" was not infringed upon in the first place. Handguns as we know them today didn't even exist at the time the Constitution was written.
In short, the District of Columbia, Chicago, and six suburbs in Illinois have all banned handguns but not infringed on any citizen's rights to own many other types of guns, including rifles and shotguns.
Please express your objections to this right wing judicial activism that will result in the loss of more lives. Click here and sign the attached statement:
http://tinyurl.com/2ry9kt
Afterwards, you'll get the chance to send it on to five friends. Please spread the word about this case.
The Constitution belongs to the American people, not some radical, NRA activist judges. They can't use our own documents as a weapon against reasonable gun legislation that keep us safe.
Sincerely,
Freedom States Alliance
Changing the Way America Thinks About Guns and Securing Our Nation's Future
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March 13, 2007
Dear John ,
As you may know, in a dismaying development, a highly partisan D.C. Court of Appeals struck down the right of the District of Columbia to reduce gun violence by banning handguns.
The Court, led by right wing Jurist Laurence Silberman, claimed that the Second Amendment -- despite decades of case law and Supreme Court precedent -- guaranteed an individual right to bear arms.
What is perhaps most baffling is why the Second Amendment was at issue in this case at all. You can own a shotgun or rifle in the District of Columbia, so the "right to bear arms" was not infringed upon in the first place. Handguns as we know them today didn't even exist at the time the Constitution was written.
In short, the District of Columbia, Chicago, and six suburbs in Illinois have all banned handguns but not infringed on any citizen's rights to own many other types of guns, including rifles and shotguns.
Please express your objections to this right wing judicial activism that will result in the loss of more lives. Click here and sign the attached statement:
http://tinyurl.com/2ry9kt
Afterwards, you'll get the chance to send it on to five friends. Please spread the word about this case.
The Constitution belongs to the American people, not some radical, NRA activist judges. They can't use our own documents as a weapon against reasonable gun legislation that keep us safe.
Sincerely,
Freedom States Alliance
Changing the Way America Thinks About Guns and Securing Our Nation's Future
Problem is , to few people actually know any history ( other than what they see in "where are they now" ) . I could rant on , but still am almost struck dumb at the "no handgun " remark .
Freedom=Slavery, Slavery=Freedom.
