Brady Campaign Preparing for Heller Decision

[Charles L. Cotton]

The Brady Campaign to Ban All Guns is gearing up for the post-2008 federal elections. Here is a copy of an email blast, as well as a link to the same information with photos and links on their website. This is serious folks! Please click on the link in the header and join the NRA and/or donate to the NRA or ILA. And do likewise for TSRA! Then get your family and friends to do so. Displeasure with the lack of overt support by the Bush Administration will pale in comparison to the battle we face with Obama in the White House, backed by a larger majority in the U.S. House and Senate.

Chas.

Brady Campaign email

A Look Inside — and Outside — the Supreme Court Hearing: What's Ahead for Sensible Gun Laws

On March 18, Brady President Paul Helmke and your Brady Center legal team were in the Supreme Court as the nine justices questioned lawyers in the most significant Second Amendment case in the nation’s history.

After the extended Court session, Paul spoke to the press, one of many interviews that week.

Outside, on the steps of the Supreme Court, Brady Campaign and Center staff, Million Mom March Chapters and other activists raised our banners high, waved to cheering passers-by, and gave interviews to the press.

Thanks to your support, your Brady Center is now preparing for the vital next steps — legal, legislative, and political — that will follow the Court’s decision in late June.

Click here to read more about the D.C. vs Heller case.

Brady Campaign, Million Mom March Chapters, and Local Activists Organize Remembrance Events in April


One year ago, on April 16th, 32 individuals were murdered and many others injured on the campus of Virginia Tech. That tragedy was a stark reminder of the tremendous toll our nation pays for weak gun laws.

This month, across the nation, we pay tribute to and remember all the victims and survivors of gun violence at more than 70 local commemorations in partnership with ProtestEasyGuns.com and other local allies.

We will be calling on the U.S. Congress to close the gun show loophole. The Brady Campaign’s message is simple: No Brady background check. No gun. No excuses.

Click here for a list of cities holding events.





Victory!
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Fighting Back!
Pennsylvania State House Takes Up Anti-Trafficking Legislation
Connecticut Committee Holds Hearing on Microstamping

Philadelphia Rallies for Right to Pass Local Gun Laws




Join Us in D.C. on April 9 and Stand Up for a Safe America

The Brady Center invites you to Stand Up for a Safe America at its annual fundraiser in Washington, D.C.

Lewis Black has donated four tickets and a meet and greet in a live auction. You have to be there to bid.

This year’s event pays tribute to all Virginia Tech victims and families, and honors Abby Spangler, founder of ProtestEasyGuns.com, and Col. W. Gerald Massengill, Chair of the Virginia Tech Review Panel for their activism in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Click here to find out more and get your tickets.



Meet a Sensible Gun Law Activist: Andrew Goddard, father of Virginia Tech victim, and President, Richmond Million Mom March Chapter

Andy Goddard’s son, Colin, was shot on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech.

Andy vowed as he sat beside his son’s bed that, if his son lived, he would work to keep other parents and families from enduring the same torture of possibly losing a child to gun violence.

Colin did survive, and Andy, now president of the Richmond Million Mom March Chapter, has kept that vow.

Click here to read Andy’s story.

[HighVelocity]

Reading that, I wonder how we can even be from the same planet.

[jimlongley]

I got such a kick out of Helmke's "The check's in the mail." "debate" with Clayton Cramer last week - all that "I support the right to keep and bear arms!" talk and all the while you knew he was crafting a campaign to violate that right.

It reminds me of The Emperor's New Clothes, doesn't he know that we know that he has nothing on? Who does he think he's fooling?

Actually he's fooling some of the people, and that's all he needs to do.

Just a few reasonable restrictions, for safety reasons, and he gets to determine what's reasonable.

[/rant]

[shootthesheet]

Every 2A rights believer should be very concerned about what will happen to our rights if the Demoncrats win the White House and continue to control the Congress. Obama or Hillary either will fill any open Supreme Court spots with far leftists. They will also sign any and all gun control laws that come across their desk. Not to mention using agencies to restrict gun ownership and eliminate our ability to buy ammo or ammo components. This is a reality and if we do not fight back now we will lose what little we have gained under the Republicans and much more.

The Republicans are not much better. However, we can control them. We can and have built a more conservative party to spite McCain being nominated. He is not great 2A leader but he is also not one that will work daily to take our rights from us as are either of the Democrats for President or anyone in power in the congress. These Dems will use federal agencies to strangle our ability to buy guns and ammo as they are doing right now. They have their plan to eliminate our rights and after the election we will see it implemented if they win.

Heller will be useless unless we control how the federal and state laws are managed and enacted. If the leftists, in control of the Democrat party, win they will be able to twist the laws however they want and it will take years to get a SCOTUS decision. By then the court will be populated with even more activist judges that will support any and all restrictions on our rights. We have won nothing. Even if Heller gives us a positive position it will be lost because we will see more laws and worse restrictions in areas we consider to have moderate gun laws. We have won nothing if we cannot make sure the decision is properly implemented. We cannot do that with the Democrats in control. We can with the Republicans in control as proven by our recent history.

[frankie_the_yankee]

Heller will be useless unless we control how the federal and state laws are managed and enacted. If the leftists, in control of the Democrat party, win they will be able to twist the laws however they want and it will take years to get a SCOTUS decision. By then the court will be populated with even more activist judges that will support any and all restrictions on our rights. We have won nothing. Even if Heller gives us a positive position it will be lost because we will see more laws and worse restrictions in areas we consider to have moderate gun laws. We have won nothing if we cannot make sure the decision is properly implemented. We cannot do that with the Democrats in control. We can with the Republicans in control as proven by our recent history.

[sbb]

This is a great discourse. I am so happy that our first amendment secures the right to free speech. It is a shame that the Brady "NUTS" don't share the same feeling concerning the second.

[dukesean]

One year ago, on April 16th, 32 individuals were murdered and many others injured on the campus of Virginia Tech. That tragedy was a stark reminder of the tremendous toll our nation pays for weak gun laws.

This month, across the nation, we pay tribute to and remember all the victims and survivors of gun violence at more than 70 local commemorations in partnership with ProtestEasyGuns.com and other local allies.

...

This year’s event pays tribute to all Virginia Tech victims and families, and honors Abby Spangler, founder of ProtestEasyGuns.com, and Col. W. Gerald Massengill, Chair of the Virginia Tech Review Panel for their activism in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.

For some inexplicable reason, Abby Spangler of ProtestEasyGuns.com has organized "lie-ins" on April 16, the anniversary of the VT attacks. What really bugs me is that they have decided to politicize the tragedy by having these ProtestEasyGuns events. The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) is holding off of their empty holster protest until a week after the anniversary. Some of the folks from SCCC were victims or had friends killed in the VT attacks, and they asked Abby Spangler to not have their "lie-ins" on April 16, which should be a day of rememberance not politics, but they have refused to change their date.

By the way, if you haven't seen the site, I encourage you to visit http://www.protesteasygunslies.com for the truth.

[boomerang]

For some inexplicable reason, Abby Spangler of ProtestEasyGuns.com has organized "lie-ins" on April 16, the anniversary of the VT attacks.

It makes sense. Their agenda against civil rights is built on lies.

[bdickens]

Civil rights. Exactly.
Stand up and fight violaions of your civil rights wherever they crop up!