On October 20, 2000, Sarah Brady and Handgun Control Inc., the organization that uses its muscle to prevent little old ladies from being able to defend their own lives, issued a press release (here on HCI site) that shows just how ignorant they are when it comes to, well, a lot of things.

HCI/Brady's fear-laden headline:  Heston Suggests 'Lynching' As Appropriate Response to Al Gore's Gun Policy

The HCI press release begins with a quote they attribute to Mr. Heston,

"Now, (Al Gore is) saying 'I'm with you guys on guns.' In any other time or place you'd be looking for a lynching mob.'' The crowd responded with "let's do it'' and "I've got a rope.''  -- The Grand Rapids Press, October 17, 2000 quoting NRA president Charlton Heston and describing audience reaction.

Sounds like a crowd of liberty-hungry people to me. Probably a room full of doctors, lawyers, accountants, plumbers, salesmen, housewives, mothers and grandmothers who are all too aware that Al Gore is a rotten liar and a big government disarmament socialist mouth who would best serve this country as a piñata. What's wrong with that? Can't anyone just be honest any more, Sarah?

Handgun Control released a new report, "The Gun Lobby and Race: Thinly-Veiled Bigotry,'' claiming to reveal "the extremist message of the gun lobby." They accuse "the gun lobby" of "appealing to violence, racism and bigotry through National Rifle Association (NRA) official speeches and literature." Little does Mrs. Brady know that the NRA is considered by a high percentage of gun activists to be rather soft and squishy and very politically correct when it comes to telling it like it is. LaPierre's statement that Clinton needs a certain level of gun violence to do his unAmerican bidding for gun controls was the exception, not the rule, for NRAspeak. Mrs. Brady probably also needs to take a good, hard look at the fact that it was the people in the crowd saying things like, "I've got a rope."

Hey, Sarah. Ropes owned by 83,000,000 ticked off gun owners are very meek, insignificant tools, indeed.

Mrs. Brady must live on Fantasy Island, where she is still able to be shocked by hearing that millions of Americans would like to see tyrannical gun controllers swinging from their necks. Her internet connection on Fantasy Island mustn't plug her into the fact that not only was her putrid press release congratulating Mel Carnahan for being a swell guy seen by gun owners as yet one more sign that she is a socialist moron, but she also must've missed the fact that gun owners openly celebrate his being smashed to bits, too -- especially those in Missouri.

Hey, Sarah. Tell Mr. Roarke and the little short guy to stop blocking your access to the real hardline activist websites. Get a better line into reality.

Says Mrs. "Make it Harder for Grandmothers to Defend Themselves Against Rapists" Brady,

"Heston's incendiary remarks, tantamount to calling for the lynching of a sitting Vice President of the United States, are incredibly frightening and dangerous. Heston speaks a language of violence and hate."

Sarah Brady mustn't understand that many people do in fact hate her guts, openly, with good reason. Sniveling Brady believes our daughters should lay down on their backs for any darkhearted "man" with a knife in his hand. She, therefore, is not only a danger to the lives and safety of our little girls, she is despised for it. Who would support little girls getting sexually violated right before their throats are cut? Sarah Brady, that's who. And, somehow, someone is supposed to feel kindly toward her? Sheesh. Brady's mama dropped her on her head one too many times. (Not hard enough, mind you.) She wars against our rights but doesn't like it when signs of war against her and her kind begin to surface. Two words: pathetic and weak.

Mrs. Brady asked a question in her press release that begs an answer. She squeals,

"Do the leaders of the NRA feel they need a message riddled with hate to accomplish their extremist legislative agenda?"

Though I cannot speak for the NRA, I can speak for myself and for a good many other gun owners, by saying,

"No, ma'am, gun owners don't 'need' a message filled with hate. We just feel a certain level of animosity toward anyone who tells our mothers they cannot defend their own lives. If you actually showed any care whatsoever in helping lawful, decent women defend their lives and their dignities, perhaps people would stop wishing you'd add your own life to the suicide statistics. Thank you for asking. And as for your 'extremist agenda' smear, let me now ask you a question: why is it 'extremist' for lawful, decent citizens to choose to defend their own lives and the lives of their family members? Who is the real extremist here, Comrade?"

Mrs. Brady isn't totally blind, however. She did say this: "Incendiary words often have violent results."

Little do you know, lady. There are gun owners all across America who are feeling so pushed, so cornered, that they are prepared to resort to force to quell the violence you push. And make no mistake about it; your agenda to disarm little old ladies is violent. And the most immediate and effective way to stop violence is with equal but opposite force. Put Gore in office and see how long it is before your worst nightmare becomes a reality, and then let's talk about "violence." Right now, there are an unfortunate number of good people getting harmed by violence involving guns, and the rest are worthless, socially-irredeemable gang bangers killing each other. Many people believe Gore Means War, Sarah Brady. Perhaps you'd better get a grip on the meaning behind the fact that people in public places are willing to openly suggest roping Mr. Internet to the nearest tree. There is a clue there.

Sarah Brady apparently skipped third grade, where we learned that you don't do anything that hurts somebody else unless they are attacking you and you must defend yourself.  Why else would she be opposing the right of pregnant mothers to stop knife-wielding child molesters from snatching their two-year-olds? Unless she is just plain evil -- or severely retarded -- it doesn't make any sense.

But much of what Mrs. Anti-Self-Defense says and does is devoid of logic. In fact, in this same press release, she attempts to degrade Paul Blackman, NRA director of research, for telling the plain truth, saying

"Blackman has written that inner-city violence, which kills predominantly young black males, is good for society. In his 1994 paper, 'The Federal Factoid Factory on Firearms and Violence: A Review of CDC Research and Politics,' Blackman said that young homicide victims are 'frequently criminals themselves and/or drug addicts or users,' and he argued that their deaths offer 'net gains' to society."

Mrs. Brady, shall we now also feel guilty that roaches kill roaches, too? Should we cry and moan over the "loss" of a violent thug? Your answer is to take fundamental rights (self defense) away from people who live 1,000 miles away from the nearest gang, and yet you put yourself up there as some kind of sensible person? Get real, "lady." You are warring against our rights with lies and distortions, but you want us to play by some kind of rules?

And, just so you know, Sarah Brady is the one who put this phrase into that statement: "...which kills predominantly young black males..." She is trying to turn African Americans against lawful gun owners and certainly against the NRA, because she is herself a racist. Of course she's a racist. With the largest segment of our most impoverished neighborhoods in most areas of America being non-white, Sarah Brady is calling all inexpensive guns "junk guns." To her, any gun a poor person (the predominance of which are not Sarah Brady's race) can afford should be banned. Where I grew up, we call people who accuse others of doing what they are doing: two-faced hypocrites. Sarah Brady is attempting to create racial tension in a society where racial healing is required, and she wonders why people hate her. Brilliant, "lady." Profound stupidity.

Brady actually made my day and gave me even more respect for Jeff Cooper, NRA board member and columnist for the NRA's flagship publication, the American Rifleman, noted in 1991 as having said, "the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.''

Brady called Cooper's quote "startling." I call it honesty and rational thought, with a humorous and bold twist on a problem that shouldn't be addressed by feeling sorry for lowlifes. A dead predator cannot prey any longer, and that is a good thing, except for Sarah Brady. She apparently doesn't want the misusers of guns to die, perhaps because they help her agenda quite nicely. Lawful, decent gun owners, on the other hand, celebrate every time a bad person eats lead. We know that society gets safer, and we are committed to having a safe society.

Sarah Brady and Handgun Control, Inc. are dangerous to a free society. Anybody believe it is possible to stop their anti-civil-rights agenda without a rope? Anyone?

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