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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 14 |
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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 14 |
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This mother's day a group of vocal women plan to try to force Congress to enact what they have so far steadfastly rejected as a bad idea: radical gun control measures. They are hoping for a million mothers to rally in support of such measures. Well, I'm a mom and I can tell you I will NOT be there.
Telling children that "guns are bad" and "guns kill people" teaches them that they are not responsible for their actions. Rather the people who manufacture inanimate objects are to be blamed when those inanimate objects are used improperly. Guns do not kill people - people kill people. When guns are not available, people who desire to kill can find any number of other ways to do their evil deed, most of them far more vicious and violent than gunfire. If someone were planning to kill me, I would much rather go with a few bullets, than by being strangled, beaten, stabbed, or set on fire.
Circumventing the Bill of Rights teaches children that laws were made to be broken if the current circumstances seem to warrant it. The Constitution, including the Second Amendment is not just a suggestion to guide us in making future laws - it is the LAW. To say that the law doesn't apply any more because things have changed is to say that law is not really law, it is just something you should do if you feel it is the right thing at the right time.
Requiring technology that makes guns "child-proof", so that they cannot be fired by a child means that parents cannot teach their children the PROPER use of a weapon. Gun accidents happen because people do not have a proper respect for what a gun will do when the trigger is pulled. If a child is taught very young that guns used improperly or carelessly are deadly, there is little likelihood that child will have a tragic accident with one.
Requiring registration of guns and licensing of gun owners makes children the vassals of Big Brother, and totally unable to be the guardians of the freedom we so desire to pass on to them. The only reason for registration and licensing is so that Bubba knows where to look when he decides that an armed citizenry is detrimental to the designs he has on our freedoms
The biggest reason I am opposed to gun control is this: I want my children to grow up FREE, and the only way that is going to happen is for my generation to be ready and willing to defend that freedom, with deadly force if necessary. I also want my grandchildren to grow up free, and the only way that can happen is for my children's generation to be ready and willing to defend it. We have to know how to use weapons, and have access to them in order to do that.
No, I don't expect to be at the Million Mom March. I think I'll take my 6 year old and my 8 year old out for an afternoon of target practice instead.
We are shocked -- SHOCKED -- to report that a federal grand jury indicted two Buddhist nuns for failing to show up at the trial of Al Gore's confidante and Democratic party fund-raiser, Maria Hsia. Hsia was recently convicted for arranging $100,000 of illegal campaign contributions during a Gore visit to a Buddhist temple. Though they were granted immunity, the nuns fled the United States -- joining the ranks of many others who have done the same rather than testify against the Clinton regime.
[The Federalist 4-7]
Clinton's March trip to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Switzerland was the most expensive foreign junket ever taken by a U.S. president. The Air Force estimates that Clinton's trip cost in excess of $80 million just for the aircraft used. And what U.S. taxpayer interests were served? "Clinton just returned from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Switzerland with not one foreign policy success," says Rep. Joel Hefley. "He did nothing to ease the poverty of Bangladesh, was scoffed at by the Indian parliament, dismissed by Pakistani leaders, and rebuffed by the President of Syria." Sen. John McCain added, "I don't think there has been a time in recent history where a president has embarked on a foreign tour in the extensive way that he did and come up totally empty-handed."
Our "head-of-state" is not the only freeloading Clinton. HILLARY! commandeered government aircraft for 26 trips to New York in the last seven months of 1999, costing taxpayers $182,471. Her campaign has, thus far, reimbursed the government $32,878. Don't hold your breath waiting on the other $145,786.
"Bill Clinton promised the most ethical administration in history. He's fallen about 41 presidents short." --George W. Bush
"Republicans are naive when they believe polls and they believe Democrats." --Cal Thomas
"The only way Gore can be credible on campaign finance reform is to turn himself in." -- Tony Blankley
"Government control of private-sector industry used to be called fascism. Today it is called the Clinton administration." -Geoff Metcalf
"I love the United Nations." --Globalist Ted Turner on why the UN flag flies at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta and why he banned CNN editors and correspondents from using the word "foreign" in news stories.
"Why did Ken Burns remove from 'Not for Ourselves Alone' Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's passionate descriptions of abortion as 'child murder' and 'infanticide'?" --Nat Hentoff on some of the celebrated moments of historical revisionism in March - Women's History Month.
Q: Why did Al Gore suddenly reversed his position on refugee Elian Gonzalez?
A: There are about 800,000 Americans of Cuban origin in South Florida.
In 1955, a family making $68,605 paid $168 in payroll taxes. Today, a family earning $68,605 pays $10,496.56 in payroll taxes. We will leave the joy of computing the increase to all you median two-earner households out there!
[Washington Post ]
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