Bradys giving out free pamphlets and posters...

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Ordered 100 posters. Would have ordered some of the pamphlets, but stocked up on Charmin last week.
 
In order to better know my enemy, I signed up for the Brady e-mail alerts. This is the first one I've ever recieved wherein I'm not asked for any money,

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A Call to Action from Paul Helmke
President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the
Brady Campaign with its network of Million Mom March Chapters
Dear Ken,

Following are excerpts taken from a very moving speech given by Paul Helmke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Please read Paul's remarks and follow the links to view more and help spread the word.


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View highlights from Paul's speech at the National Press Club.
Email this speech to your Congressional delegation.

There were 32 people murdered at Virginia Tech.

That number, in and of itself, was not extraordinary. Every day in our country, on average, about 32 people are murdered with guns. When you add suicides and unintentional shootings, the death toll from guns in America each day is about 80 people. And for every death, there are another two or three seriously injured.

The gun epidemic is our monthly 9/11, our weekly Katrina, a continuing Iraq war on our streets and in our schools. It is our daily Virginia Tech. Yet, we don't focus on this threat until we get a Virginia Tech.

And then we allow our political leaders to slowly and deliberately delay, until we are all busy with other challenges. And then our leaders let us down, content that we're no longer paying attention.

To say that we are sorry that these shootings happened is not enough. We should be ashamed all of us should be ashamed that we have allowed this to happen. We must all say to the victims at Virginia Tech and their families, and to the families of gun violence victims every day: we have failed you. All of us. We can do better.

What can we do about gun violence?

There are many things we can do to prevent gun violence. Here are three policy proposals:

1. We must comprehensively and effectively apply the Brady background check system, so no one who we want to prohibit from buying guns can legally buy one.
Effective background checks would have stopped the Virginia Tech killer from buying these guns.

2. We must reduce access to weaponry that is not for sport and not for self-defense.
Had Congress and the President not allowed the assault weapon ban to expire, the killer may not have been able to obtain the high capacity magazines he used in his assault.

3. We must give our police and federal law enforcement the tools and resources they need to fight gun crimes, including illegal gun trafficking and corrupt gun dealers.
New technologies, such as microstamping and other ballistic identification systems, might have allowed authorities to identify the Virginia Tech shooter earlier, before his second, most deadly, rampage.
Gun violence prevention should not be controversial. The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that gun violence is a huge problem. And most Americans believe that we should have tougher gun laws. Most Americans, including most gun owners, support the policy proposals I've suggested.

We intend to hold our political leaders accountable if they fail to take action, Democrats and Republicans alike.

There are other things that we, at the Brady Center and the Brady Campaign with our Million Mom March Chapters, are going to do. To start, we need a national conversation about our gun problem. We need to ask elected officials and each other: what are you going to do about it?

All Americans have the responsibility to join this national conversation, and become part of the solution to the gun violence problem.


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You can help build the national dialogue by emailing your Congressional delegation a link to Paul's speech - ask them "What are YOU going to do about gun violence?" and let them know that doing nothing is not an option.

And look for email alerts from us about specific gun violence prevention legislation that will be coming before Congress. More to come . . .

Sincerely,

Sarah Brady, Chair






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This is the funniest thread I have ever seen on THR! :D :D :D

My wife and I are sitting here reading the responses to the original post and my sides are aching. Thanks for the laughs. :D
 
I think that every state that allows CCW should have a sign like Floridas'...it would drive the criminals out hopefully! Maybe we should put a sign up in Ill, Md, etc., stating "Deadly force and CCW is not authorized, people are defenseless."
 
I found the anti-florida poster funny. They're warning people to use caution in arguing with people on the freeways, but not saying anything about not arguing at all (i.e. having the common sense to walk away). So they advocate the use of violence (even verbal) so long as it's used with caution? ***??!?

I'm ordering some... Under my seldom used radio-comedy production company name. Maybe they'll ship extra if they think I'm important. Regardless, any of the junk mail goes into the air as smoke, just to put them at odds with Green Peace.

Anyone have any idea who's bankrolling this?
 
lol, this is awesome. My friend is going to wonder why in the hell the brady organization is sending him so many brochures and posters. hes pro-gun if you are wondering.
 
Now all I need is name. Hmmmm... Jeffrey Cooper ?? Robert Heinlein ?? Marion Morrison (John Wayne's real name) ?? Bob Brister ?? Oleg Volk ?? j/k
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How about John Browning? :D Or is that sacrelidge?
 
2. We must reduce access to weaponry that is not for sport and not for self-defense.
Had Congress and the President not allowed the assault weapon ban to expire, the killer may not have been able to obtain the high capacity magazines he used in his assault.
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YeahbuhWHAT?!?!?

That's...interesting. The Brady's say they need to go after weapons that aren't for sport or self-defense.

I'm shocked that they included self-defense.

But....if not for those two reasons, what are they gonna ban now??? Souped-up single shot .22 target guns? Hmmm....:"fiftys" of course.

But didn't Cho just use a bunch of BAN-ERA 10-rounders? Or did I hear that wrong?

Then again, maybe they're going my McCarthy's NEW definition of "high-cap" as anything that holds over **SIX** rounds!

HmmmmMMMMmmm...wonder how long someone could order ONE poster/booklet at a time, every few days, before you realized you were just trying to run their postage budget dry? ;)
 
I ordered last week ...

under my real name, and (just as brave) my real address. Figured getting my posters was easier that way.

While it is funny to order such stuff under pseudonyms etc, I actually want to be on their list, just in order to see what everyone *else* on their list is getting in the mailbox.

And if they ask me for money, I'll send them a letter requesting money from them ;)

timothy
 
In all seriousness...if you ordered some of these things, shot them up and sent them back, wouldn't the Bradyites misconstrue that as some kind of threat?

Anywho, I think I'll start small and order 10 of each...then maybe go from there. Maybe I'll be "Eugene Stoner", "John Garand" or "John Browning." Decisions, decisions.
 
I cannot bring myself to open the emails I've subscribed to anymore, I cannot bring myself to view their site. It honestly makes me want to vomit.

I did notice the poster with the flag superimposed on the revolver is upside down though. A statement by the Bradys perhaps????????
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thanks to xpun8 for the image help!!!
 
In all seriousness...if you ordered some of these things, shot them up and sent them back, wouldn't the Bradyites misconstrue that as some kind of threat?
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I'd also send a note to the effect of 'Thank you very much for the free targets, I appreciate it a lot!' :D
 
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and...

Everyday in the United States, 80 people die in shootings associated with "suicide, homicide, and unintentional injuries." Ten of those who die are children.
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Oh, right, they must mean the young black gang bangers fighting over drug territory. How silly of me to think that this had anything to do with the law abiding.



http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/varstab.htm#rates
 
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I also noticed that the brady's math is fubar as well. In the info posted on their upside-down flag on the revolver poster, I came up with these numbers;
11,344 (people killed) ÷ 366 (days-leap year)= 30.99 people per day

OR

from the text concerning 80 people per day from "http://www.bradycenter.org/stop2/"]http://www.bradycenter.org/stop2/
80 (people killed) X 366 (still leap year)= 29,280

those numbers aren't even in the same zip code.
 
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