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Kelsey
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AMERICA'S GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC:
WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS
MUST STOP FEEDING CULTURE OF DEATH



In just the latest chapter, there are 10 dead in Greater Minnesota, and the toll from multiple shootings this year is going through the roof.

For Immediate Release:
03-22-2005

Contact Communications:
(202) 898-0792

Washington D.C. - The bloody attack on a high school in the Red Lake Indian Reservation yesterday can't be viewed as an isolated incident. Though the motivations of the young killer are as of yet unknown, his rampage becomes another entry on a growing list of news reports on horrific gun violence and reports on the ready availability of ever-deadlier weapons.

"In recent months, we have seen horrible shooting attacks in shopping malls, office buildings, courthouses, the homes of judges, private hunting lands and it seems like every other kind of place we like to believe is safe," said Brady Campaign and Million Mom March President Michael Barnes. "And we're deluged with reports about legal guns that can shoot down airplanes, guns designed to kill police wearing body armor, and the FBI being forced to watch as terrorist suspects arm themselves with firearms."

"Our leaders are preaching about the culture of life," Barnes said. "They should spend the same amount of energy taking steps to stop our nation's culture of death."

In Red Lake, Minnesota, America yesterday suffered the worst school related shooting incident since the Columbine shootings in April of 1999. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvanian, a frustrated mayor is urging the state's Governor and legislature to help stem the tide of violence. In Atlanta, a beloved judge, an innocent court reporter and a veteran police officer were laid to rest. In Tyler, Texas, a brutal spouse killed his wife and a bystander and wounded his son with an AK-47 copycat weapon.

In Washington D.C., by contrast, lawmakers have allowed the Federal assault weapons ban to expire, limited law enforcement investigations of gun sellers, mandated the immediate destruction of records of gun sales, and stand poised to make it impossible for victims of gun violence to seek justice against reckless gun sellers in the courts.

"We need to do more to make sure our communities -- and especially our young people -- are safe from gun violence," said Kate Havelin, President of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Million Mom March chapter. "Today I hope all of us think of those who died, those who were injured, and all of those whose lives have been changed because of gun violence."

"When will our leaders have enough?" asked Sarah Brady, Chair of the Brady Campaign. "When will the government do something to help stop the bloodshed? Red Lake sends all of America's mothers and fathers a message about how vulnerable all of our children are."

[Marinesg1012]

Guns are tools your idiots, it is the people using them that need to be "fixed"

[Popeye]

If we, the law abiding gun owning public, were really the problem everyone at the Brady Center would have been shot to death by now and this foolishness would have stopped long ago.

[Marinesg1012]

Well now there is an idea.

and before anyone gets insane I AM JOKING

[Lupey]

And we're deluged with reports about legal guns that can shoot down airplanes, guns designed to kill police wearing body armor, and the FBI being forced to watch as terrorist suspects arm themselves with firearms."

Ok I saw the news about the terror watch list and being able to buy. Am I missing something about legal guns that can shoot down airplanes ? :dunno: and is it the 57 that she is refering to that can penetrate body armor??

[Jim V]

Lupey, they are talking about rifles chambered for the .50BMG round. As to the 57, that is the FN-57 chambered for a small caliber fast round. The round and the guns used to fire it were desiged for the military. As far as I know, none of the military ammo has reached the open market while the practice ammo has. The practice stuff is reloadable and fun to shoot but it will not go thru any correctly made body armor.

[Lupey]

Thanks Jim. Didnt know that they were saying the 50 bmg was used to take airplanes out of the sky now. Boy you dont watch them people for aminute and they come out with something new.

[dipodomys]

Naw Lupey that was CNN trying to stir something up by telling the world that airliners could be shot down using 50 BMGs. They want to prohibit sales of same (of course) and they're trying to encourage someone to try it so they can make the news. On the other hand in the Red lake incident there was a cop killed to get the guns to do the deed and we all know that only the police and military should have guns but they should be locked up where ordinary people can't get them. That was the case in Georgia where the perp almost killed another cop to get the key to her locker where her gun was stored, so he could remove the gun from the locker and use it to kill people he didn't like. Police weapons taken from what the gungrabbers would have considered secure storage to be used against government employees who were not allowed to carry guns to defend themselves. In one case a gun which probably could have been used to defend the policewoman if it hadn't been required to be locked up securely to keep from making the gungrabbers in the courtroom nervous.