MICHIGAN CHAPTER

Tired of all the hypocrisy on the part of the anti-gunners?

Know anyone who marched for longer waiting periods in Michigan, but who are unaware of how long the waiting period is to get a permit to purchase a gun or even know the procedure for buying a gun? Know anyone who marched for trigger locks, but are unaware that they can be far more dangerous than no trigger locks? Know anyone who marched to make it a law that kids shouldn't buy handguns, when in Michigan the law already requires one be 21 years of age? Know anyone who marched to ban assault guns, when they have been outlawed for 30 years? Know anyone who is against CCW because they feel that crime will increase when there is not a single academic study that claims right-to-carry laws have increased state crime rates in any of the other states that have CCW? Know anyone who marched for a kinder world for their children and then destroyed, sabotaged and stole SAS property? Know anyone who's going to go right back out there and do it all again in the name of "common sense"?

Dr. Robert J. Woolley has addressed our frustration at the hypocrisy of it all and has initiated the "Rosie"Award, as featured in America's First Freedom.

 Source: America's First Freedom

February 2001 issue

Pages 14-15

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The First Annual "Rosie" Award Winners!

Few would disagree that last year's most flagrant anti-rights hypocrite was Rosie O'Donnell, who, after calling for a complete ban on private firearms ownership, approved of her own bodyguard's application to carry a concealed handgun. In her honor, Dr. Robert J. Woolley, a staff physician at Boynton Health Service in Minnesota, has proposed a new award - the "Rosie" - to be bestowed upon the most hypocritical enemies of the Second Amendment. Candidates nominated by Dr. Woolley include:

• Bill Clinton Undoubtedly, Clinton has done more than any other president in history to erode Americans' gun rights. Clinton constantly chipped away at constitutional rights while insisting he had no desire to interfere with hunters and recreational shooters. Under his watch, his Justice Department told a panel of federal judges that the official position of the Clinton-Gore administration was that "the Second Amendment does not extend an individual right to keep and bear arms."
• Al Gore While spewing anti-gun rhetoric at every opportunity, Gore tried to conceal his past record as one of the NRA's most reliable pro-gun-rights votes when he was first elected to Congress. And contrary to his words and actions for the past eight years, he spent the last few weeks of the campaign trying to "assure" hunters that he didn't want to take their guns.
• Joe Lieberman He's Gore's equal in sacrificing principles for political expediency. While continuing to push for a ban on "assault weapons", Lieberman worked behind the scenes to get those made by Colt - which is headquartered in Conneticut, the state Lieberman represents in the Senate - excluded from the blacklist.
• Million Mom March The NRA put up $1 million to start a fund to get into every public school a program to teach young children not to touch guns, then challenged the "million moms" to put up $1 each to match. The MMM refused to participate, thus confirming that its agenda has little to do with actually making children safer and everything to do with outlawing private firearms ownership.
• Andrew Cuomo He was the Clinton-Gore point man on several anti-gun rights initiatives. He attempted to disarm some of the poorest citizens who live in government subsidized housing, over which he seemed to feel he had dictatorial control as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He also was the attack dog on the government's traitorous agreement with Smith&Wesson.
• Martin Sheen This actor is symbolic of most of Hollywood in its gun hypocrisy. After a career spent making a fortune by glorifying gun violence, he starred in a TV commercial sponsored by Sarah Brady's Handgun Control, Inc., denigrating George W. Bush's history as a supporter of Second Amendment rights.

Honorable Mention Rosie's go out to people or organizations that were not really duplictous, but just plain dumb in their anti-gun efforts:

• Linda Strong She's the New Mexico sculptor who amputated the hand from a statue she had made of her own son engaging in a water pistol fight after buying into the idea that the squirt gun was a symbol of violence.
• Tahunanui Kindergarten At this school in Nelson, New Zealand, the head teacher has instituted a program requiring her 4-year-old students to apply to the school for a license before they can use their fingers to shoot imaginary guns on the playground.
• Cynthia Carter She's an Annapolis, MD., alderman who called for a governmental "buy-back" of toy guns and for making the manufacture of toy guns a crime. She claimed that God had prompeted her to make these proposals.
• Associated Black Charities of Baltimore This organization rejected a mural of abolitionist Harriet Tubman because it portrayed her-accurately, by the way-carrying a gun as she led slaves to freedom. "We feel that in the year 2000, it is inappropriate for a piece of artwork depicting guns and violence to be displayed on our wall in Baltimore, which had more than 300 murders last year," said the group's executive director, Donna Jones-Stanely, who apparently is unable to distinguish murder from self-defense.

A big thumbs down to all the recipients!