| For once, gun-grabber (mostly) emails the truth. Good week for gun owners! |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Sunday, 24 April 2005 | |
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Occasionally, emails from Toby Hoover, who often appears to be a one-woman show running the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, require responses to correct the record. This week, her email speaks for itself (almost). It was a VERY good week for law-abiding gun owners in America.
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 Subject: Culture of Fear this week Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Alerts and Education This week's contributors to the culture of fear. US CONGRESS considering giving the gun industry unique legal protection, granting them immunity and depriving gun violence victims of legal claims against negligent manufacturers or dealers. PRESIDENT BUSH delivered a message by videotape to National Rifle Association Convention leaders as 3,000 people dined on steak with cognac sauce. He pledged to fight new gun control provisions and called on Congress to pass immunity for the gun manufacturers and dealers. TOM DELAY addressing the NRA convention and holding a rifle above his head, copied Charlton Heston, saying "From my cold, dead hands" The NRA gives every keynote speaker a hand-crafted colonial-style flintlock rifle made by the same expert gunsmith. Rep. Delay was standing next to Kayne Robinson and Wayne LaPierre, who were both talking about the award. When the rifle appears, it was obvious Delay was shocked. He had literally no clue this was coming. You could tell from the way he was smiling from ear to ear, almost blushing. He kept looking at it in astonishment. They announced that the rifle will be placed in the NRA’s National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, VA (great place, go there). At that point the international press floods the stage and takes numerous photos. DeLay held it up once real high for the photos. He never said "From my cold dead hands". If he had, the entire room would have stood up screaming and clapping.
The AP reported that Nugent said the following while speaking to the NRA convention, " To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot'em" FLORIDA LEGISLATORS passed a law to make it 100 percent legal to use deadly force as a self defense measure without any 'duty to retreat' and it is expected GOV JEB BUSH will sign it. OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL JIM PETRO reported to be the next keynote speaker for the Ohio gun lobby's annual 'Party in the Park'. Last year's speaker was SECRETARY OF STATE KENNETH BLACKWELL
TUSCON ARIZONA SCHOOL DISTRICT considering cutting existing programs but giving high schools the option of adding a new class on how to shoot guns and the ARIZONA LEGISATURE and GOVERNOR for passing and signing a law allowing this semester elective. ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For passing a bill to allow carrying concealed weapons in bars ICE CREAM TRUCK DRIVERS in Modesto, CA selling BB guns to children with their ice cream WEAPON FREE ZONE signs at www.ohioceasefire.org Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence P.O. Box 1078 Toledo, OH 43697 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it phone 419.244.7442 According to Patrick, the Coalition is a “coalition of two” - Hoover and a secretary, operating out of a basement. Yet Patrick noted that Hoover is quoted in virtually every firearms-related story that is published in Ohio, and occasionally across the nation. Patrick said his research has revealed that Hoover receives her funding, “to the tune of fifty to one hundred thousand dollars a year”, from two vehemently anti-gun Foundations, Joyce and Tide, among perhaps others. |