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Quotes about Project Exile from the NRA Web Site
What
Project Exile REALLY Means
Wayne
LaPierre:
"Armed gangbangers should be afraid of getting caught. But in the past 2
years, the President's Justice Department has prosecuted only 11 juveniles
anywhere in the country for illegal possession of handguns."
[This could be your 15 boy or girl to
whom you have given a .22 revolver to go shoot cans at a rural dump, or to go
plinking at the country home of a friend. YOU YOURSELF can be criminally
prosecuted for giving him or her the gun. And the "Winning Team" wants
you to bePROSECUTED. Remember: ALL OF THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
--Quote above taken From NRA WEBSITE on ad campaign:
http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/ad1.shtml
Wayne
LaPierre:
"First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe
schools. That means no guns
in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement
officers or trained se
curity personnel."
[This means no ROTC marksmanship
programs at schools. This means that if you have a CCW "permit" from
your state, and you have your carry pistol in the trunk of your car, and you
drive into a school parking lot, then you're an instant felon. Don't think you'd
be prosecuted? Don't bet on it.]
(Cont'd)
"The National Rifle Association believes in no unsupervised youth access to
guns, period. We have a lways supported holding adults responsible for willfully
and recklessly allowing access to firearms."
[This means that even if you leave a gun
in a safe place, if your child gains access to it -even by accident, and even if
no crime or accident occurs involving the gun-YOU become a felon if a jury
decides to convict you. And by the way, so much for Thomas Jefferson's advice
about giving young men a firearm to shorten and straighten their path into
manhood and responsibility. So much for hundreds of years of American outdoors
tradition. The "Winning Team" says "Flush it all down the
toilet."]
(Cont'd)
"So we support mandatory penalties for juvenile criminals caught carrying
guns. But out of the thousands of these armed teen thugs, we believe the Clinton
Justice Department should have prosecuted more than just 3 in 1997 and 8 in
1998. That's not zero tolerance."
[This mean that if your minor child is
caught hunting or plinking by himself with a handgun, he BECOMES a felon--and
the "Winning Team" wants him PROSECUTED. Remember--ALL OF THESE LAWS
apply to YOU and YOUR FAMILY.]
(Cont'd)
"We believe that a lawful, properly-permitted citizen who chooses to carry
a concealed firearm not only deserves that right, but is a deterrent to crime.
We support the right to carry because it has helped cut crime rates in all 31
states that have adopted it ... with almost no abuse of any kind
by the lawful citizens who took the courses, submitted to the background checks,
passed the tests and became part of a proud citizens movement that's making
America a safer place to live. The truth is, very few actually choose to carry a
gun -- but the bad guys don't know which few they are."
["took the courses"?
"passed the tests"? So much for the Second Amendment! So much for
"shall not be infringed"! So much for the "right" to bear
arms! A right that requires taking courses and passing tests is not a right, it
is a privilege granted by the government and revocable by the government.]
--Quotes above from Wayne La Pierre on NRA website, at:
http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/denver_wlp.shtml
Wayne
LaPierre:
“But the baseline ought to
be, if you catch a felon with a gun, a felon trying to buy a gun, a violent
juvenile, a violent gang member with a gun, they ought to be prosecuted.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced -- but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“Some of these are being
prosecuted at the local level. But the truth is, and the criminals know it, if
they are, they get a slap on wrist not a long jail sentence. If you're
prosecuted at the federal level, you serve 85 percent of your sentence, not a
fourth of your sentence or a fifth of your sentence like at the state level.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“The federal level you have
speedy trials. They have the ability to deny bail. They also eliminate judge
shopping and that's going on all over the country. We ought to also computerize
the records of those adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court of law so that
they'll be flagged on the instant check system. We call that the Hinkley
loophole, but they ought to computerize them.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“Has anyone bothered to
look at the figures? Of those 4700, 4000 of them are 15- to 19-year-old
juveniles. Everything they're doing is already prohibited and illegal with guns.
And they're not being taken off the streets and they're not being prosecuted
under these existing federal laws.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“You want to stop those
children, as the President calls them, from dying, and we all do. You enforce
the federal laws on the books against them to cut at the heart of the culture of
violence, you'll do those juveniles a favor and you'll do the country a
favor.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“But the truth is a tough
criminal justice system with tough, no-nonsense enforcement of the federal laws
we have on the books and tough gun prosecution of the federal laws we have on
the books will cut to the heart of this culture of violence the President talks
about.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont'd)
“Prosecute and enforce the Gun-Free School Zones Act will at least give us a
chance. You can't say zero tolerance and not mean it and not prosecute.” [This
means that if you have a CCW “permit” from your state, you have your carry
gun in the trunk of your car, and you drive into a school parking lot, you’re
an instant felon—and the “Winning Team” wants you PROSECUTED.]
(Cont'd)
“As I said, it's OK to
raise the penalties on illegal possession of guns by juveniles, but why do only
prosecute 11 in the whole country when we're talking about the gangbangers that
are killing people on the streets of this country?”
[Juveniles should be able to own and use
firearms as they always have in this country - at their parents’ discretion.
The federal government has no business keeping juveniles from owning a handgun
or any other gun if his or her parents deem them responsible enough.]
--Quotes above taken from
Wayne La Pierre speech found on NRA website at:
http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/5_10press.shtml
Charlton
Heston:
“For years the NRA has
demanded that Project Exile be deployed nationwide. Makes sense, huh? The laws
are already on the books. Just enforce them. But Bill Clinton won't do it. When
he says he's serious about fighting crime, consider that as a matter of policy
-- as a matter of policy - the Clinton Administration is not prosecuting
violations of federal gun law. In fact, they reversed the Bush Administration's
policy of prosecuting felons with guns. Instead, with plea bargains, a wink and
a nod, they've been letting armed felons off the hook. From 1992 to 1998,
prosecutions have been cut almost in half.”
[The
“Winning Team” wants these unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF
THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
(Cont’d)
“Everyone remembers all the
press support for his "desperately needed" semi-auto gun ban -- that
outlawed guns based solely on their appearance. But nobody is reporting that,
out of thousands of certain offenders, the Clinton Administration prosecuted
four people in 1997 and four in 1998.
[Read
that again—the “Winning Team” is complaining that only FOUR of your fellow
citizens were prosecuted for buying, selling, or some other act related to
possession of these perfectly constitutional militia rifles. Are you in
violation of the unconstitutional ’94 Crime Bill, which we all fought so hard
to prevent being passed? Then the “Winning Team” wants you PROSECUTED.]
(Cont’d)
“It's surreal. Mr. Clinton
stands in the Rose Garden with his ten prop cops, lip-biting in pained support
of some new law. The press does its best to get it passed. It becomes law. Then
everybody forgets about it. And Americans buy it over and over and over again.
Maybe you think a politician's lies can't hurt you. But let me tell you, armed
felons can. Passing laws is what keeps politicians' careers alive.
Enforcing laws is what keeps you alive. But nobody's getting arrested, nobody's
going to jail, it's all a giant scam.”
[Read
that again—the “Winning Team” doesn’t want these unconstitutional laws
to be forgotten. It wants people arrested and sent to jail. It wants these
unconstitutional laws enforced – but ALL OF THESE LAWS apply to YOU, too.]
--Quotes above taken from
Charlton Heston’s TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES Yale speech, from NRA website at:
http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/yale.shtml
