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Brady Bunch Misleading
Gullible Followers Again by Angel
Shamaya July 19, 2002 KeepAndBearArms.com -- The July 18
press
release from Handgun Control, Inc., which still tries to get people to buy
its new name, offers gushing praise for a report from the Packard Foundation entitled "Children,
Youth, and Gun Violence". The Washington Post ran a full length,
pro-Brady editorial
based on the same report; it just hit the newsstands today. The report calls for numerous things that
please the gun prohibitionist groups to no end. Among the report's recommendations
is a call for regulating guns as consumer products. Most gunowners would
be pleased as punch by many facets of such a move if implemented. What other
"consumer product" besides a firearm requires background checks to buy
one, gets you arrested if you carry it around in ways that displease oath-breaking
public servants, or even leads to lengthy prison sentences for mere possession in some
cases? The answer of course is none, but Brady's gullible followers don't tend
to think about such matters -- they simply latch on to anything that demonizes
their targeted inanimate objects. Stupid Guns Via heaping praise for this
"new" anti-gunner's report, the Brady Klan continues to
support any anti-gun group who encourages the implementation of "smart
gun" technology -- another facet of this new "study". Their fancy
rhetoric for such "only you can use your own property" technology goes
as follows: "personalize guns in an effort to prevent unauthorized users
from operating the weapon." The dangers of "Smart Guns" are many: Were such expensive design requirements placed
on gun manufacturers, few could afford implementation, and the dangers of such
technology are many and varied. A fallen police officer's partner whose magazine
had run dry couldn't pick up his partner's firearm and use it to quell an
attack. If a man was disabled by home invaders while protecting his family, his
own wife wouldn't be able to use the firearm to keep from being raped or
murdered. The more moving parts a piece of equipment has, the more likely it
is to malfunction. In their utopia, anyone but you would be an
"unauthorized user," even if your life depends on immediately
authorizing the person trying in vain to use your firearm to keep you from
getting killed. The "ring on your
finger" version of "smart" guns can also make "weak
hand" shooting impossible. If your firing hand becomes disabled, unless
you can get the ring close enough, it will not fire. If biometrics are involved,
even if you have a weapon capable of being programmed to accommodate
multiple authorized users, the recognition devices can easily fail -- get a
cut or blood on a fingertip, and you and anyone else are S.O.L. It's also
conceivable that you could be wearing gloves if it's cold, you're
doing garden work, washing dishes, etc. when a need to defend yourself
arises. Criminals rarely accommodate to your schedule when invading. An eventual full mandate that
all firearms must have such insane technology -- a generation down the road
-- could lead to bans on all firearms without it. (That would require war,
of course -- but these anti-rights fools do not care about such things, as
long as they convince themselves to feel good about making all people easy
to prey upon.) But again, the willing dupes who
support making decent people defenseless don't care for such facts; they just
hate guns and wish to disarm people who, unlike them, have the courage, ability
and willingness to protect their own lives and the lives of the people they
love. Lock Up Your Life Preserver Even more sinister, if you've got children in your home and wish to
exercise your duty to protect them, these Brady folks and their allies at
Packard Foundation are adamant about making it illegal for you to do so. "If they
choose to keep a gun in the home, it must be stored, locked, unloaded and
separate from the ammunition," the groups opine. Considering all of the
many recent and ongoing reports of violent home invasions,
this amounts to advocacy for the total surrender of your family's safety. They
may as well say: "If a team of ruthless and murderous home invaders breaks
into your home intending to kill you, we want the U.S. Congress and all state
legislatures to require you to be defenseless -- even if it means you and your
entire family get raped, tortured and then slaughtered." Their latest press release calls this
"common sense" -- words issued by Brady's anti-rights President, Michael
Barnes. Jessica Lynne Carpenter could've used a firearm to keep her two siblings
from being pitchforked to death right before her very eyes, but her parents
followed the Lock Up Your Life Preserver law in Merced, California -- the family
is still
dealing with the painful kind of loss Mr. Barnes and his kind seek to multiply. While these gun prohibitionists
pretend they stand for the safety of children, the truth is that they are using
children as a shield to deflect attention from their chief prohibitionist aims
while getting as much gun control as possible passed -- no matter how many
children die by their harsh and unAmerican policies. Sure Thing "Limiting the flow of illegal
guns to youth," is what we need to do, say the gun banners as they praise
their new anti-self-defense cohorts. Considering the
fact that Britain banned handguns but handgun crime among teenagers and younger
adults is steeply climbing there, and considering the fact that hundreds of
millions of privately owned firearms exist in America, even a faithful member of
the Brady Gang ought to wonder how these measures would accomplish their stated
but highly questionable objective. But they don't even bother to ask such
questions, while lawful, peaceable American gunowners know that the ultimate
objective of Handgun Control, Inc. is the abolition of private firearms
ownership. If that weren't so, the Brady Klan wouldn't have openly supported
outright gun bans in the recent past. In other words, these anti-rights
socialists are still very much the enemies of a free people, they should still
be monitored, and they should still be exposed for their ugly intentions at
every turn. Let us hope the public servants in
government do not follow too many of these people's life-threatening recommendations. If they do, Brady is leading us into a time
where longsuffering gunowners ("the people") will have no choice but to fight, physically -- to
remain armed, as intended by America's Founding Fathers. Were such an
unfortunate time to arise, the disarmed peasant organizations and their sheep
who continue to assail our rights would do well to to obtain firearms and
ammunition. Related Reading... |
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