🚀 go-pugleaf

This should prove to any remaining gun owners how radical Kerry is. If 
Kerry is elected, expect a continued push for elimination of the individual 
right to own guns in America.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/press/release.php?release=594

TO RESTORE SANITY ON GUN ISSUE,
BRADY CAMPAIGN, MILLION MOM MARCH
ENDORSE JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT
For Immediate Release:
10-01-2004
	
Contact Communications:
(202) 898-0792
Washington, D.C. � The following is a statement from Michael Barnes, 
President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the 
Million Mom March:

�During the 2000 presidential campaign, the National Rifle Association�s 
Kayne Robinson said that if George W. Bush was elected President, the NRA 
would be working out of the White House.

�In test after test, Robinson�s prediction has turned out to be true. The 
NRA has gotten everything it asked for from President Bush. Every time he�s 
had a choice, he has sided with the gun lobby and against law enforcement 
and the victims of gun violence.

�The Bush Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft secured 
legislation allowing it to destroy Brady background check records a day 
after the check is completed, against the advice of law enforcement 
leaders. President Bush signed that bill.

�The Bush Justice Department has made it easier for criminal defendants to 
challenge gun laws as unconstitutional by insisting that federal 
prosecutors adopt a view of the Second Amendment that is contradicted by 
virtually every federal appeals court.

�The Bush Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives secured a law 
to prohibit disclosure of crime gun records that would reveal the gun 
dealers supplying most of the guns used in crime. President Bush signed 
that bill.

�President Bush strongly supported an effort to give gun sellers 
unprecedented immunity from legal accountability to the victims of gun 
violence. The bill failed in the Senate � but President Bush supported it. 
And he signed similar legislation when he was the Governor of Texas.

�And in his most devastating blow to public safety, President Bush broke 
his promise to renew the Assault Weapons Ban. Instead of renewing the law, 
he turned his back on the law enforcement leaders and officers who had 
urged him to save that lifesaving statute, a law that had limited the 
firepower of criminals. He refused to even meet with police leaders to 
discuss it. He also turned his back on gun violence victims whose lives 
have been shattered by these weapons.

�This week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal local gun 
laws in the Nation�s Capital. The White House has said President Bush will 
sign the bill into law if the Senate takes action.

�Time and time again, President George W. Bush has caved in to the gun 
lobby and failed in his responsibility to keep Americans safe. He has 
chosen the extreme ideological policies of the National Rifle Association 
over the need to protect American citizens from gun violence every single 
time. Not once has the President opposed anything on the NRA�s legislative 
agenda. This is truly tragic, and it will lead to Americans, including 
police officers, losing their lives.

�On the other hand, Senator John Kerry has consistently supported sensible 
gun laws throughout his career in public service. As a prosecutor and as a 
legislator he has been a leader, working with law enforcement officials on 
efforts to reduce gun violence. As a hunter and a war hero, Senator Kerry 
knows that sportsmen do not need military-style assault weapons, and that 
measures to keep guns away from criminals, terrorists and children are just 
common sense.

�We urge Americans who care deeply about reducing gun violence in our 
nation to vote for Senator John Kerry.

�Mr. Bush should seek to be the President of the National Rifle 
Association. He has earned that job.�

# # #

As the nation's largest national, non-partisan, grassroots organization 
leading the fight to prevent gun violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent 
Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March is dedicated to creating an 
America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at 
school, at work, and in their communities. 


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