Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms PR on Demconvention

[DaveSZ]

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McCARTHY TO SPEAK AT CONVENTION; 'DEMOCRATS SHOW TRUE COLORS...AGAIN,' SAYS CCRKBA
CCRKBA email | 7-23-04


Posted on 07/22/2004 9:42:09 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan


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McCARTHY TO SPEAK AT CONVENTION; 'DEMOCRATS SHOW TRUE COLORS...AGAIN,' SAYS CCRKBA

By offering rabidly anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy a plum opportunity to promote legislation expanding the ban on so-called "assault weapons" during their convention next week, the Democratic Party is once again showing its true colors to millions of American gun owners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.

"For months, everywhere you turned, Democrats have been out hustling gun owners for their votes, trying to portray themselves as pro-Second Amendment. Giving McCarthy a microphone proves Democrats haven't abandoned their failed gun control policies," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "What would the press be saying if Republicans allowed a recognized gun rights proponent like Rep. Don Young to urge his colleagues to let that ban expire?"


McCarthy's husband was murdered by a deranged racist gunman named Colin Ferguson, who also wounded her son in a shooting on a commuter train in 1993. Ferguson did not use a so-called "assault weapon" in that crime, but a handgun he purchased in California-a state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.


"Democrats may as well erase any credibility they may have gained among gun owners over the past two years," Gottlieb observed. "So much for John Kerry's pheasant hunting and skeet shooting photo ops with borrowed firearms, or any other lip service that Democrats are offering gun owners back in their districts. Allowing McCarthy a forum to campaign against the firearms rights of millions of law-abiding Americans in the middle of their national convention should tell firearms owners all they need to know about the true Democrat agenda."

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[DaveSZ]

1. Why don't they care about the "patriot act?"

That restricts civil liberties even more than the AWB.

(I'm against both btw)

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Because they think guns make them free

Guns do not; the Constitution does. It's very debatable that gun ownership seriously empowers the populace against a Federal army with much heavier firepower. The government isn't taking away guns not because it is afraid of armed citizens, but because it can't and won't.