Sarah Brady

[PatriotG]

Sarah Brady has stated the following:

"They are looking only to protect gun owners' quote - and I stress that - rights, because I don't believe gun owners have rights. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted that way. Now I am not for taking guns away or denying guns to law-abiding citizens, but I don't think it's a constitutional right that they have, and every court case that's ever come down has shown that."

Well in U.S. v Miller the SC said that the right of the individual to own guns is intrinsically tied with the need for the militia to protect a free state. In U.S. v Verdugo-Unquez the SC said that 'the people' meant just that, and those rights pertained to the individual. In U.S. v Emererson the 5th Circuit said that it was clearly an individual right, and the SC refused to take on that case. Only since the FDR administration has the courts ever considered that the Second Amendment has meant anything other than an individual right. So she lied on that account.
Then she says in contradiction to the first statement so she is lying again.

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

My problem is supporting this kind of mindset on any level. Each one of our Founding Fathers wrote eloquently on the issue of gun ownership and why it was absolutely essential to the security of a truly free people. Over 60 years after the abomination of the Holocaust we still have people who support the same agenda; disarm the populace and let the government control all the guns.

"How long would the Nazi's have kept it up if every Jew they came after would have met them with a gun in his hand." Prof Groetshele (Fail Safe)


Remember the Holocaust happened to people like you and me.

 

[pcosmar]

Wow,
Where did you find this quote?

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

I can't believe someone actually said that out loud.
I know that is their purpose, but they always push the "crime"aspect.
This needs a source and then a loudspeaker.

 

[maeqFREEDOMfree]

sorry for being ignorant... but who's sarah brady?

 

[sluggo]

Gun Owners Of America Awards Membership To Sarah Brady's Son
-- After gun control mom buys sniper rifle in straw purchase for son

For Immediate Release
March 25 2002
Contact: Andrew Said
703-321-8585

SPRINGFIELD, VA - Gun Owners of America today awarded Sarah Brady's son, Scott, an honorary one-year GOA membership.

"Now that Scott Brady is the proud owner of a high-powered 'sniper' rifle, he will most certainly need a fuller understanding of the Second Amendment than he ever received at home," said Erich Pratt, Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America.

In her recent book, Sarah Brady admits to having engaged in a straw purchase when she bought a .30-06 on her son's behalf, allowing him to avoid the required criminal background check.

"We congratulate Scott for keeping his name 'off paper.' Because the gun was bought under his mother's name, he completely avoided the NICS registration system. This means authorities will never know he has the sniper rifle, a benefit which reduces the possibility that his gun could ever be confiscated by authorities.

"Registration and confiscation have been problems even in this country. New York City registered long guns in the mid-1960s, after promising those registration lists would never be used to confiscate the guns," Pratt said. "But in 1991, Handgun Control, Inc., supported the city when it banned many of the very guns which were previously registered. Some homes even received visits from police, who confiscated the banned firearms from the clutches of non- compliant gun owners."

According to published press reports, Sarah Brady's straw purchase may have been illegal under Delaware law.

Erich Pratt is the Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America, a national gun lobby with over 300,000 members located at 8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151.

Erich Pratt is available for press interviews.

 

[PatriotG]

Wow,
Where did you find this quote?


I can't believe someone actually said that out loud.
I know that is their purpose, but they always push the "crime"aspect.
This needs a source and then a loudspeaker.

The first was obtained from brainyquotes, which is pretty well known as a good source. Youll also find it elsewhere if you google SB. Brainyquotes, has quotes from everywhere.

The second quote came from there also, but a colleague actually heard her say that one. It was made famous by a couple of gun organizations that pounced on it. You could probably ask GOA.

 

[mrsat_98]

Gone and soon to be forgotten.http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Sarah-Brady-gun-control-advocate-dies-at-73-6178483.php

 

[Weston White]

That quote is supposedly from The National Educator, p.3, January, 1994, but is misquoted or totally bogus, lots of debate on the matter.

Either way, several great points raised here:

More Bogus Brady or How NOT to Defend Our Gun Rights
"Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns."
Calls for Gun Bans

Also noting (SUBCOMMITTEE WITNESS TESTIMONY ON SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS, p.1866, Senate - February 28, 1989) Statement of William Pattison on Behalf of the National Association of Police Organizations Before the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution:

Distinguished Senators and Staff: My name is William Pattison . I serve as Executive Vice President of the National Association of Police Organizations which represents over 90,000 police officers from Alaska to Florida, from California to New England, on the local, state and federal levels.

In addition, I am President of the Superior Officers Association of Nassau County, New York.
...
In our role of advocate, we want Congress to know that the hundreds of thousands of dedicated police officers in our land have come to recognize the brutal fact that our streets, which we are pledged to patrol and keep safe for our fellow citizens, have become combat zones in which drug gangs, paramilitary groups, and other criminal elements prey upon the public, armed with assault weapons manufactured at home and abroad for military purposes.

Even suburban Nassau County, which once enjoyed a reputation as having a low crime rate, is now beseiged with drugs of all kinds, drug trafficking and a huge supply of weapons. Our present crime rate is astonishing.

The availability of, and access to, assault weapons by criminals has become so substantial that police forces are being forced to upgrade the weapons supplied to police officers merely as a matter of self-defense and self-preservation. The six-shot 38 calibre service revolver of old is no match against a criminal with a semi-automatic weapon.

While it is necessary, we do not believe that improving the weapons provided to police is the solution to the problem of assault weapons.
...
We believe such a ban would be a step in the right direction. It will send a message to the country that we will not permit America to become a shooting gallery or an armed camp, and that as a nation we can reverse the violent course that America is traveling. We must take the suggestion of our newly-elected president and find ways to become a `gentler and kinder' society. We must end the maiming and killing of our children, our citizens and our police officers.

We wish to state further, however, that a ban on assault weapons would be but one step on a much larger road that lies before us in the area of crime prevention and drug law enforcement. We have already conveyed to every member of Congress by letter dated January 27, 1989, from our President, Robert Scully, our concern over the lack of funding in the area of drug law enforcement under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. We wish to state clearly and unequivocally that much more must be done in the areas of law enforcement, employment opportunities, training, education, housing, and the like if this country wishes to avoid the establishment of a large, permanent, threatening underclass of criminals and drug traffickers who will destroy the civil peace and domestic tranquility that the Founding Fathers sought to establish and maintain on these shores over two hundred years ago.