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NOTHING'S MORE AMERICAN than moms
and apple pie.
So when gun control-types decided to parade
their anti-choice views in a Washington protest,
they chose to use moms as the theme and
Mother's Day as the setting for their
propaganda. That's how the "Million Mom
March" (M3) was really born.
This wasn't a spur of the moment idea of Donna
Dees-Thomases, the alleged creator of this
"event." Contrary to her portrayal, Thomases is
no innocent, well-meaning mom. She's a figment
of the liberal media, political, and entertainment
industries. She's been a publicist for the "CBS
Evening News" and is now the flack for David
Letterman. She also served as the press
secretary to liberal Democrat former U.S.
Senator Russell Long.
And-oh, yeah-she's the sister-in-law of Susan
Thomases, close friend of Hillary Clinton, and --
like Hillary -- a frequent testifier before
Congressional committees looking into Clinton
multiple-scandaldom. And, like Hillary,
Thomases (who will also attend M3) was also a
frequent utterer of the "I do not recall" defense.
The Wall Street Journal has written a lot about
her in their "Who is---?" series, about assorted
Clinton cronies who've covered for Bill and
Hill's misdeeds in various investigations. This
whole thing is likely the brainchild of Hillary and
her ilk.
But enough about them. And on to the next
personality of Sunday's M3 event --- Veronica
McQueen. You've probably never heard of her,
but you will at M3. She's the mother of Kayla
Rolland, the 6-year-old killed by one of her
classmates at school in Mt. Morris Township,
Michigan, in February. I'm sorry her daughter
died. But I and the other law-abiding citizens in
this country didn't do this to her. Why does she
forgive her daughter's murderer, but, yet, has the nerve to try taking our
guns away?
And if McQueen really wanted to stop the problem of gun-deaths, she'd
skip the march and look closer to home. To the broken families of Mt.
Morris Township. Almost none of the proposals McQueen and the M3
support -- including licensing and registration of guns and gun owners,
safety locks, one-handgun per month limits, and cooling off periods --
would have saved her daughter.
Her daughter's killer was a socially bereft young boy sent to live in his
uncle's crack house by his own mother, Tamarla Owens. Owens is an
admitted drug user and neglectful parent who abandoned her two
emotionally unstable sons. The father, Dedric Owens, is in jail on
unrelated charges and has been there before. The gun used in Rolland's
death was stolen and illegal.
Yet, Tamarla, too, has the gall to go to the M3 event. "I really want to
go," she said in her blue jumpsuit after last week's court hearing on
whether or not she should regain custody of the son she screwed up. "I
am a mom and I do believe we should have stricter gun laws." No, she is
a mere egg donor, as are many of those intending to be at M3. Many of
the other moms may be well-meaning, but they're very ignorant. They're
also being used. And they're tragically caught up in the hype, like
McQueen.
In the wake of her daughter's death, McQueen, 30, has been given the
star treatment. This previously anonymous woman from a dirt-poor
hicktown has been to the Big (White) House to meet Bill. She was upset
her pictures with him didn't turn out well, but she'll be back. Friday, she'll
be on the "Today" show, her second appearance. Sunday, she'll be a
featured speaker at M3. And Monday, she'll be featured in New Yorker
Magazine. She'll also get to party on the dais with annoying pro-gun
control B-list celebs like Rosie O'Donnell, actress Reese Witherspoon,
Singer Courtney Love (whose hypocrisy I've previously written about),
Susan Sarandon, Roseanne Cash, John McEnroe, and sundry others. It's
easy to see why she's taken the side of M3's gun-grabbers in stealing our
freedoms and skewering the Second Amendment.
The licensing and registration
these "moms" support is akin
to that employed by some of
the worst totalitarian despots
in world history . . . like
Adolph Hitler (who used the
registration rolls to confiscate
all weapons, especially from
groups he didn't like--i.e., Jews). These "moms" are on the same side as
Hitler! And most of these women are the same ones who are always
screaming about choice and their "right to choose" on chic issues, like
abortion. But what about my right . . . to choose a gun? Kinda
inconsistent.
The M3 forces are demonizing the NRA as "extremist." But mothers who
really want to stop gun violence among kids support the NRA because
they know it's the only group that's done something constructive. The
NRA's "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program has been recognized by even
fierce NRA opponents as being the best way to educate kids to treat
guns appropriately and stay away from them. The NRA is spending $1
million on it, this year. After Sundays' march of merriment, those "moms"
will disappear, but the NRA and Eddie Eagle will still be around, teaching
kids and saving their lives.
The only good point made by M3 is the lack of enforcement of existing
gun laws. We already have too many laws on the books, but they're not
enforced. Prosecution is prevention.
Trigger locks are not failsafe and lead to a false sense of security. A kid
who can find a gun can find the key, as one did in Congressman Jim
Traficant's Ohio district, last week. And in the middle of the night--when
an attacker enters a Million Mom's home--a triggerlock could equal rape
and death, because she's too busy fumbling for the key, when she could
be aiming and firing. Registered guns? How will that stop them from
being stolen and used in shootings?
And M3's claimed 13 child gun deaths per day are equally precarious.
This figure includes "children" up to age 20. The actually number of young
children shot by guns per day is really 1.7. Two-thirds of these are
homicides, which are mostly drug- and gang-related. More gun control
won't stop that. The more important statistic about the number 13 is that
every 13 seconds a life is saved in self defense, by a gun. 1.5 to 2.5
million lives are saved every year because people defended themselves
with guns, according to scholars, like Yale's John R. Lott, Jr., and
Florida State University's Gary Kleck. And all stats show that gun
violence at homes and, in general, is on the decline.
Plus, most Americans do not agree with the gun control aims of M3. An
April Frank Luntz poll showed that 72% attribute youth violence and
school shootings to either a decline in parental quality time or violence in
entertainment. Only 11% singled out guns. A whopping 84% said
increased parental involvement would have a greater impact on reducing
gun violence than more gun control. A Pew Research Center for the
People and the Press poll from April found that just 6% of Americans
think stricter gun laws would prevent future Columbines. Only 37% want
new, stricter laws, compared with 59% who favor stricter enforcement of
current laws.
Informed moms know that, like the Rolland killing, new gun restrictions
won't change a thing. Canada has very strict gun control, but, in April, a
five-year-old girl shot a two-year-old boy dead in Quebec. Smart moms
also know that being armed prevents crime and could save their
children's lives. In April, a mugger was targeting moms with young
children by putting a gun to the kids' heads. An armed mom could
prevent this. As a petite woman of 5'2", I know that a gun is my ultimate
equalizer against a male attacker.
M3 marchers sport T-shirts that proclaim, "We're looking for a few good
moms." But good moms will be home celebrating Mother's Day with their
families. A few cool moms will participate in the Second Amendment
Sisters' Armed Informed Mothers' March. But don't expect the anti-gun
media to cover them. The ones you see on TV descending on
Washington are just ignorant. Should we listen to them because they
watch Rosie O'Donnell on TV and blindly follow her lead?
They don't know the difference between the Brady law and "The Brady
Bunch." Real moms know that safety for their kids-and
themselves-means being armed and female. Guns are #1 in feminine
protection.
NOTHING'S MORE AMERICAN than moms
and apple pie.
So when gun control-types decided to parade
their anti-choice views in a Washington protest,
they chose to use moms as the theme and
Mother's Day as the setting for their
propaganda. That's how the "Million Mom
March" (M3) was really born.
This wasn't a spur of the moment idea of Donna
Dees-Thomases, the alleged creator of this
"event." Contrary to her portrayal, Thomases is
no innocent, well-meaning mom. She's a figment
of the liberal media, political, and entertainment
industries. She's been a publicist for the "CBS
Evening News" and is now the flack for David
Letterman. She also served as the press
secretary to liberal Democrat former U.S.
Senator Russell Long.
And-oh, yeah-she's the sister-in-law of Susan
Thomases, close friend of Hillary Clinton, and --
like Hillary -- a frequent testifier before
Congressional committees looking into Clinton
multiple-scandaldom. And, like Hillary,
Thomases (who will also attend M3) was also a
frequent utterer of the "I do not recall" defense.
The Wall Street Journal has written a lot about
her in their "Who is---?" series, about assorted
Clinton cronies who've covered for Bill and
Hill's misdeeds in various investigations. This
whole thing is likely the brainchild of Hillary and
her ilk.
But enough about them. And on to the next
personality of Sunday's M3 event --- Veronica
McQueen. You've probably never heard of her,
but you will at M3. She's the mother of Kayla
Rolland, the 6-year-old killed by one of her
classmates at school in Mt. Morris Township,
Michigan, in February. I'm sorry her daughter
died. But I and the other law-abiding citizens in
this country didn't do this to her. Why does she
forgive her daughter's murderer, but, yet, has the nerve to try taking our
guns away?
And if McQueen really wanted to stop the problem of gun-deaths, she'd
skip the march and look closer to home. To the broken families of Mt.
Morris Township. Almost none of the proposals McQueen and the M3
support -- including licensing and registration of guns and gun owners,
safety locks, one-handgun per month limits, and cooling off periods --
would have saved her daughter.
Her daughter's killer was a socially bereft young boy sent to live in his
uncle's crack house by his own mother, Tamarla Owens. Owens is an
admitted drug user and neglectful parent who abandoned her two
emotionally unstable sons. The father, Dedric Owens, is in jail on
unrelated charges and has been there before. The gun used in Rolland's
death was stolen and illegal.
Yet, Tamarla, too, has the gall to go to the M3 event. "I really want to
go," she said in her blue jumpsuit after last week's court hearing on
whether or not she should regain custody of the son she screwed up. "I
am a mom and I do believe we should have stricter gun laws." No, she is
a mere egg donor, as are many of those intending to be at M3. Many of
the other moms may be well-meaning, but they're very ignorant. They're
also being used. And they're tragically caught up in the hype, like
McQueen.
In the wake of her daughter's death, McQueen, 30, has been given the
star treatment. This previously anonymous woman from a dirt-poor
hicktown has been to the Big (White) House to meet Bill. She was upset
her pictures with him didn't turn out well, but she'll be back. Friday, she'll
be on the "Today" show, her second appearance. Sunday, she'll be a
featured speaker at M3. And Monday, she'll be featured in New Yorker
Magazine. She'll also get to party on the dais with annoying pro-gun
control B-list celebs like Rosie O'Donnell, actress Reese Witherspoon,
Singer Courtney Love (whose hypocrisy I've previously written about),
Susan Sarandon, Roseanne Cash, John McEnroe, and sundry others. It's
easy to see why she's taken the side of M3's gun-grabbers in stealing our
freedoms and skewering the Second Amendment.
The licensing and registration
these "moms" support is akin
to that employed by some of
the worst totalitarian despots
in world history . . . like
Adolph Hitler (who used the
registration rolls to confiscate
all weapons, especially from
groups he didn't like--i.e., Jews). These "moms" are on the same side as
Hitler! And most of these women are the same ones who are always
screaming about choice and their "right to choose" on chic issues, like
abortion. But what about my right . . . to choose a gun? Kinda
inconsistent.
The M3 forces are demonizing the NRA as "extremist." But mothers who
really want to stop gun violence among kids support the NRA because
they know it's the only group that's done something constructive. The
NRA's "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program has been recognized by even
fierce NRA opponents as being the best way to educate kids to treat
guns appropriately and stay away from them. The NRA is spending $1
million on it, this year. After Sundays' march of merriment, those "moms"
will disappear, but the NRA and Eddie Eagle will still be around, teaching
kids and saving their lives.
The only good point made by M3 is the lack of enforcement of existing
gun laws. We already have too many laws on the books, but they're not
enforced. Prosecution is prevention.
Trigger locks are not failsafe and lead to a false sense of security. A kid
who can find a gun can find the key, as one did in Congressman Jim
Traficant's Ohio district, last week. And in the middle of the night--when
an attacker enters a Million Mom's home--a triggerlock could equal rape
and death, because she's too busy fumbling for the key, when she could
be aiming and firing. Registered guns? How will that stop them from
being stolen and used in shootings?
And M3's claimed 13 child gun deaths per day are equally precarious.
This figure includes "children" up to age 20. The actually number of young
children shot by guns per day is really 1.7. Two-thirds of these are
homicides, which are mostly drug- and gang-related. More gun control
won't stop that. The more important statistic about the number 13 is that
every 13 seconds a life is saved in self defense, by a gun. 1.5 to 2.5
million lives are saved every year because people defended themselves
with guns, according to scholars, like Yale's John R. Lott, Jr., and
Florida State University's Gary Kleck. And all stats show that gun
violence at homes and, in general, is on the decline.
Plus, most Americans do not agree with the gun control aims of M3. An
April Frank Luntz poll showed that 72% attribute youth violence and
school shootings to either a decline in parental quality time or violence in
entertainment. Only 11% singled out guns. A whopping 84% said
increased parental involvement would have a greater impact on reducing
gun violence than more gun control. A Pew Research Center for the
People and the Press poll from April found that just 6% of Americans
think stricter gun laws would prevent future Columbines. Only 37% want
new, stricter laws, compared with 59% who favor stricter enforcement of
current laws.
Informed moms know that, like the Rolland killing, new gun restrictions
won't change a thing. Canada has very strict gun control, but, in April, a
five-year-old girl shot a two-year-old boy dead in Quebec. Smart moms
also know that being armed prevents crime and could save their
children's lives. In April, a mugger was targeting moms with young
children by putting a gun to the kids' heads. An armed mom could
prevent this. As a petite woman of 5'2", I know that a gun is my ultimate
equalizer against a male attacker.
M3 marchers sport T-shirts that proclaim, "We're looking for a few good
moms." But good moms will be home celebrating Mother's Day with their
families. A few cool moms will participate in the Second Amendment
Sisters' Armed Informed Mothers' March. But don't expect the anti-gun
media to cover them. The ones you see on TV descending on
Washington are just ignorant. Should we listen to them because they
watch Rosie O'Donnell on TV and blindly follow her lead?
They don't know the difference between the Brady law and "The Brady
Bunch." Real moms know that safety for their kids-and
themselves-means being armed and female. Guns are #1 in feminine
protection.
