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Numerically Challenged Million Mom March Running on Fiction
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | August 25, 2004 | JOE WALDRON AND DAVE WORKMAN

Posted on 08/26/2004 7:41:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Touring the country in an effort to renew the 10-year-old ban on so-called assault weapons, the numerically challenged Million Mom March has been conducting a campaign built largely on fiction.

As far back as 1988, gun prohibitionists figured they could fool the public into supporting a ban that, as history has shown, has been essentially symbolic. Sixteen years ago, Josh Sugarman with the Violence Policy Center put the campaign in its proper perspective, admitting, "The weapons' menacing looks coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semiautomatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun -- can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: awb; bang; millionmommarch; mmm; monomommarch
Too bad we can't pick politicians to ban based on their appearances. Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Kennedy (the gold medalist in swimming).
1 posted on 08/26/2004 7:41:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Is Mama T going to be there?


2 posted on 08/26/2004 7:42:34 AM PDT by rocklobster11
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To: MtnClimber

You forgot Kerry who looks frighteningly like a Weasel.


3 posted on 08/26/2004 7:43:17 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Goodnight Chesty, wherever you may be.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think it's fair to call it a Multi-Mom March.


4 posted on 08/26/2004 7:48:46 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: MtnClimber

Did this really run in the Seattle P-I? Amazing!


5 posted on 08/26/2004 7:54:51 AM PDT by blau993 (Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
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To: MtnClimber
Puget Sound Chapter of Free Republic's Million American March in Seattle.
6 posted on 08/26/2004 7:59:53 AM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
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To: blau993
Did this really run in the Seattle P-I? Amazing!

The P-U is like a stopped clock. Once in a long while it gets it right. Unlike that other paper...

7 posted on 08/26/2004 8:01:00 AM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
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To: MtnClimber

I suggest that all proponents of gun control can immediately surrender their US citizenship forever and move to the socialist/communist/totalitarian nation of their choice.

Enjoy.


8 posted on 08/26/2004 8:07:03 AM PDT by gunnygail (Pooping that hot spicy Thai food this morning was SEARED, SEARED into my brain, I tell you.)
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