Posted on 08/27/2007 5:41:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
More Guns, Less Crime
by Mark Yannone
It's a fact. But don't bother the phoney "tough-on-crime" Mayor Gordon with facts like that. He'll do his thinking from the seat of his pants and do whatever he thinks will get him more votes, like melting down guns. That was enough to gain the endorsement of the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund. NRA now stands for "no recycled arms."
[From their Web site] "Envision a sculpture in the middle of Central Avenue, more than twenty-four feet tall, made from four tons of melted down weapons: hand guns, shotguns, Saturday night specials, knives, etc., all used in the perpetration of terrible crimes against our fellow human beings. This sculpture depicts actual weapons at its base, and as it rises upward, like the Phoenix from the ashes, the weapons fuse into a powerful human symbol soaring toward the heavens."
HONORARY CO-CHAIRS
Phil Gordon, Phoenix Mayor
Peggy Bilsten, Councilwoman Phoenix City Council
Scott Jacobson, Executive Director Valley Leadership
Cody Williams, CEO Greater Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce
[Source]
Received from NRA on August 22:
PING!
BANG!
I’m a Florida NRA member and am having a heck of a time getting AZ info so I cannot verify or disprove this.
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