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Article #181Re: Emotional Message for the 2nd Amemendment
From: Gerald "Brick" Brickwood
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00
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 news:7mm7f2$fvo$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115cd9,1a4235c5e4e14492 X-Google-Attributes: gid115cd9,public X-Google-Thread: 110e73,1a4235c5e4e14492 X-Google-Attributes: gid110e73,public X-Google-Thread: 107725,1a4235c5e4e14492 X-Google-Attributes: gid107725,public X-Google-Thread: 1044e7,1a4235c5e4e14492 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044e7,public From: "Gerald \"Brick\" Brickwood" <Gerald.Brickwood@gte.net> Subject: Re: Emotional Message for the 2nd Amemendment Date: 1999/07/16 Message-ID: <Dkzj3.13372$lv.44700@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net> X-Deja-AN: 501618107 Distribution: world References: <7mm7f2$fvo$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Trace: +LI5qdMxJxsczzWbuOA5yt5wZdoTVv8qXnmbX+fopLm0+wPU3A2RT/u76yHa79+k+5Jg27k1c2Wz!PDAxDwbB9bMxr6YTXjFuzzoZn1666vHqh92GWhiqRmIbv9FFZV5bNdL5YGbbCo4FY8y2T7skf3H2!5Q== X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Gerald \"Brick\" Brickwood" <Gerald.Brickwood@gte.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:22:43 GMT Newsgroups: att.talk.guns,gaia.fido.gun_control,talk.politics.guns,uk.politics.guns