Iif that doesn't work, go to the Post web site at http://www.washingtonpost.com and check the
"Metro" section.
Joe Waldron
List lobbyist
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:07:02 -0500
From: "Jurist" <jurist@amdyne.net>
Subject: Re: PA-RKBA!Report: 40 Pct of Crime Guns Legal
Guys and Gals,
First: PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER!
http://congress.nw.dc.us/governet/search.html
http://www.mrsmith.com/ Political & Media e-mail addresses
a) Stiffen the spine of your squishy CongressCritter
INSIST ON IMPEACHMENT (Even if it doesn't result in conviction, it cuts
off his ability to pardon all his co-conspirators. That and it will
look great for the 2000 elections).
b) While you've got him on the line, give him your constituent input,
tell him to vote against ANY anti-gun legislation and seek repeal of
Brady II.
Counter-sue the Bastards
Second, gun manufacturers should seek to join as necessary parties those
who have been attacked by criminals or whose loved ones have been killed
by criminals who have used weapons after having been released to parole
BY THE SUING CITIES' ATTORNEYS after those criminals have already
established a history of violence.
Lastly, does anyone have access to information refuting the 40% figure?
If so, please post it.
Thanks,
Rick V.
Larry Riegel wrote:
>
> Don't you just fed up with this irrational and skewed BS? We can claim anything we want to and take someone to court over any issue. Will the gun industry then file suit if the win? I hope so.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N4QFW@aol.com [SMTP:N4QFW@aol.com]
...
>
> Report: 40 Pct of Crime Guns Legal
>
> c The Associated Press
>
> NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 40 percent of the handguns used to commit crimes were purchased from federally licensed dealers within the previous three years, The New York Times reported today.
>
> The research, which could sharply influence lawsuits against the gun industry, defies the long-held view that most guns used in crimes are stolen, the newspaper said, citing new federal law enforcement data.
>
> The data also contradicts the gun industry's argument that its dealers are not the source of an illegal black market for weapons.
>
> But gun industry spokesmen questioned the data, saying that the relatively short length of time between the sale of a handgun and its use during a crime is an inaccurate measure of whether a weapon has been stolen.
>
> The new data will be tested in January, when a federal suit brought by the families of victims of gun violence against the weapon's manufacturer begins in federal court in New York City.
>
> The plaintiffs contend that gun makers jeopardize public safety by flooding the market with their products without establishing necessary controls to ensure criminals can't become easily armed.
>
> Disclosure of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms data comes just days before the expiration of the Brady Law, which requires a five-day waiting period before buying a handgun.
>
> On Nov. 30 the Justice Department is to implement the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System. This system will give law enforcement
officials access to a wider array of records than is now available and
will require background checks before customers can purchase rifles,
shotguns and firearm transfers at pawn shops.
>
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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0500
From: "Jurist" <jurist@amdyne.net>
Subject: In 1690, John Locke foretold of Clinton... he called it "Tyranny"
In 1690, John Locke laid the philosophical foundation, along with the
likes of Adam Smith, upon which the Framers would build our
Constitution.
How powerfully these men wrote! They recognized that human nature does
not change with the ages and that Natural Law* is what governed Man in a
free state, regardless of time or nation or People.
> John Locke: An Essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil Government (1690)
>XVIII - Of Tyranny
>"199. As usurpation is the exercise of power which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to; and this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage. When the governor, however entitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule, and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the
satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other
Please call, write or fax your representative and urge them to vote for
impeachment!
In Liberty,
Rick V.
* >"Non erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac; sed
et omnes gentes et omni tempore, una lex, et sempiterna et immortalis,
continebit."
>* [There will be not different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times.] 3 M. CICERO, 210 DE RE PUBLICA (C. Keyes trans., 1928).
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