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Re: Emotional Message for the 2nd Amemendment

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From: Gerald "Brick" Brickwood
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00
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OK Ninksink!  GIVE 'EM HELL!
I'd love to see somebody to a photo op/newstory with the people in these
articles every time Ghoul Clinton trots out a bunch of hand-picked cops or
schoolkids.  Take a look at my post under RE: more pressure treatening gun
rights.

American Rifleman's "Armed Citizen" is a great source.


ninksink <ninksink@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> True life stories of how the 2nd Amendment helps protect you and your
loved
> ones by using an equalizer.
>
> StoryA.  Lela Phillips, 66, was awakened by a noise in her Michigan home
one
> evening and moments later was contronted by a 20-year-old man who informed
> her, "this [is] a stickup," according to Benton Township Detective Dolman
> Lange.  "[She] told him 'damn right it's a stickup' and pointed [a
handgun]
> at him," said Lange.  The man turned and fled immediately.  It turns out
> that a man had come to Phillips' home twice that same day and on the
second
> occasion, had asked to use her phone--a courtesy she denied him because of
> her suspicion.  (The Herald-Palladium, St. Joseph, MI, 4/21/99)
>
> StoryB.  James Rowlan, 70, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, had just finished
> taking a shower one evening and his wife, Fannie, was following suit when
> someone rang the front doorbell and knocked loudly.  Rowlan went to check
> and met a youth poking his head inside to survey the home and asking if
> "Mike" lived there.  Before Rowlan and time to let his suspicions turn to
> warnings, the armed youth and an accomplice broke the storm door lock and
> barged inside.  That's when Rowlan instructed his wife to barricade
herself
> in the bathroom and pretended to watch helplessly as the robbers ransacked
> the couple's bedroom.  Little did they know Rowlan had inched toward the
> nightstand where he kept a gun for protection.  "Their gun was much
smaller.
> So they were scared off by my husband's gun," said Fanny Rowlan after the
> ordeal.  The two thugs "took off so fast they broke the chain on the storm
> door," said James Rowlan.  (The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK,
> 3/26/99).
>
>
> Gun control advocates are making head way because they appeal to the
> emotions.  Gun advocates tend to state the facts, though true, facts are
to
> the TV blob minions of today, "boring".  So starting today, I am going to
> appeal to emotions when I support the 2nd Amendment.  Then when someone
> whines, that is the time to use the facts and support the emotional point.
> I will post these messages to my state and federal represetatives and
> senators, and to several newsgroups dealing with this Constitutional
issue.
> I urge all others who care about their founding forefathers and the legacy
> they beseached upon us to do the same.  Rather simple and cheap these days
> with the internet.
>
> --
> Fire arms are used over 2 million times a year for personal protection,
and
> that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime
> in many instances.
>
>
>
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From: "Gerald \"Brick\"  Brickwood" <Gerald.Brickwood@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Emotional Message for the 2nd Amemendment
Date: 1999/07/16
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