[Rhodes22-list] Yes, It Was a Bushmaster

[Alex Bell]

Let me be the first to respond to your E-mail. 

First of all, I was under the impression that the Rhodes list was
supposed to be non political in nature and content. I have restrained
from making any comments or forwarding any political jokes since I was
chastised for some jokes a couple of years ago. 

Second, let me state that your liberal position is not my position.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and if you think that the
Constitution and the Second Amendment is wrong, then you have a right to
express that opinion at the polling booths. 

I think the country has made it's position known in that way. For every
example that your post cited there was a victim. If every victim had the
right to carry a weapon, the outcome of some of these incidents would
probably have been different. The statistics regarding this are in favor
of concealed carry as Florida has proven. The bad guys just don't know
if they are biting off more than they can chew when the laws allow law
abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves. 

Alex Bell

Bill Effros wrote:
> 
> Wednesday, October 25th, 2002
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> Yesterday, Larry Bennett, a 16-year old, was shot in the head after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. You probably didn't hear about it because, well, how could he be dead if he wasn't shot by The Sniper?
> 
> Yesterday, an unidentified woman was shot to death in her car in Fenton, MI. You probably didn't hear about it because she had the misfortune of not being shot by The Sniper.
> 
> Two nights ago, Charles D. Bennett, 48, an apartment security guard, was shot to death after confronting two teenagers in his parking lot in Memphis, TN. You probably didn't hear about it because the sniper was too busy sleeping in his car that night, and thus, poor Charles was not shot by The Sniper.
> 
> Yes, The Sniper has apparently been caught, so we can go back now to NOT reporting the DOZENS of gun deaths that occur every day, the ones that just aren't newsworthy because they happen in all those old boring ways -- unlike the ways of The Sniper, who was interesting and creative and exciting and scary! He played so much better on the news.
> 
> Of course, had Congress not caved in to the NRA we would have known after the first HOUR of the first day of the killings three weeks ago that those bullets were coming out of a rifle that belonged to John Williams/Mohammad. How would we know this? It's right there in the state records in New Jersey: this gun was purchased this past July, under the name of John Mohammad!
> 
> Many more people died needlessly in the days and weeks after that first hour of the shootings, and every one of their deaths could have probably been prevented had we had a national ballistics fingerprinting data base.
> 
> Thank you, Mr. Heston for this unnecessary carnage. Thank you, Mr. Bush, for supporting Mr. Heston and his group's agenda -- which protects only the criminals.
> 
> And thank you, Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., for providing the gun used to shoot the 13 people in the DC area. Bushmaster's president, Richard E. Dyke, was the Maine finance chairman of George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign. According to Business Week, Dyke had to step down as Bush's finance chair "after reporters began quizzing him about his business dealings. Bushmaster Firearms Inc., is notorious for using loopholes to sidestep a 1994 federal ban on assault rifles." Bush and Bushmaster. Too tragically perfect.
> 
> If everyone reading this letter (and you now number in the millions) would share this fact with just one person who is thinking of skipping going to the polls on Nov. 5th, I believe that on Nov. 6th, Mr. Bush will have neither the Senate nor the House doing his or Heston's bidding. Americans don't like people who assist serial killers in being able to ratchet up their kills because The Sniper knows that his bullets are prohibited by law from being traced to his gun.
> 
> That, in a nutshell, is what the NRA is all about -- and I implore all responsible gun owners and hunters to join with me in putting an end to the NRA agenda once and for all. Don't give Bush his majority on November 5th. He's already seen to it that his cronies in big business have wiped out your 401 (K), and they are doing their best to see that you are left with no pension at all. That alone should be reason enough to NOT pull a single lever for a Republican on Nov. 5th. Send a message. Do something brave.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Michael Moore mike@michaelmoore.com www.michaelmoore.com
> 
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