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New York (FNS)-In an effort to help dispel concerns of racism, Terri Stocke, President of the Second Amendment March, agreed to coordinate with members of the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition in an effort to encourage more members of the Black community to bear arms and to carry them publicly.
In return, members of the Black community have agreed to flood the 2nd Amendment March, scheduled for April 19, 2010, in Washington, DC, with hundreds of thousands of heavily armed residents of Chicago's South Side and New York City's Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods.
"We hope that the Black community understands that 2nd Amendment rights apply to all Americans" Ms. Stocke told the crowd outside Mr. Sharpton's offices.
This afternoon I heard Paul Hodes speak to a bunch of supporters (which includes me). The last question in the Q&A was about gun control. The questioner was particularly disturbed that Congressional Dems had let Republicans insert a random amendment into a credit card reform law (yes, I know VISA and MasterCard practice robbery, but it isn't armed robbery) allowing people to bring concealed, loaded guns into national parks.
Hodes explained that the law just means state gun laws will apply: if New Hampshire wants to ban automatic weapons on the summit of Mount Washington, this amendment won't stop us. Hodes explained that Dems don't want to run on this issue. It's a loser for us, he said in so many words.
Republicans will keep trying to make us cast votes on gun control, and we will keep refusing to give them an issue, I gather - by letting them win.
When I got home from the event the news was that Dr. George Tiller had been murdered while at church. The gunman was an anti-abortion protester. Operation Rescue followed up by calling Dr. Tiller a mass murderer.
This fire-in-a-crowded-theater language is standard for the right wing today, from Limbaugh to Liddy to Cheney. Gun sales are up, the NRA tells us, since America elected Obama.
And our Democrats in Congress are making sure that the police have no ability to protect us from the crazies they incite.
"Don't bring a knife to a gun fight." Don't worry: our party is bringing the latest numbers from Gallup to a gunfight.
Original Post- The incident at Virginia Tech made me think about the abundance of words I've got squirreled away somewhere within the depths of various Google Groups (my outlet for many years prior to starting deadissue), but before all that is found, this one from the "birth pangs" period of this site in 2004 will get the ball rolling:
