[Rhodes22-list] Yes, It Was a Bushmaster

[Rik Sandberg]

Dear Bill, or is it Michael Moore,

OOOoo, that sounds like a political statement. You kids better stand back now.

Hope you don't honestly believe that any of that tripe you just recited 
would help the situation.

In case you don't believe that, check the gun control news from Australia 
once in a while.

People will be deterred from shooting other people when just one small 
thing happens. When they have to worry about the other person shooting 
back. The only worthwhile form of gun control is being able to hit what the 
hell you are aiming at!!!!

Also, if the guvamint hadn't gotten involved in the 401K business in the 
first place, by allowing these funds to be invested in the stock market, 
all of these fools who aren't willing to manage their own money and are now 
losing there life savings would probably have their money in a nice savings 
account drawing 2% interest instead of 5%, and they'd bawl about that too. 
BUT, at least they'd still have their money!!! There is a statement on 
every piece of literature that comes from any broker, brokerage house, etc. 
that says. THERE IS A RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING SECURITIES, etc. etc. blah, 
blah, blah. I wonder just which part of this message these fools didn't 
understand. Seems pretty clear to me! Don't feel bad for them in the least. 
Think I said something about NO FREE LUNCH a couple of days ago, didn't I???

Hey, let's have less government, NOT MORE!!!! They (the goverment) have 
already proven themselves clueless. Can't we please get off the 
merry-go-round now???

Rik


At 01:55 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Wednesday, October 25th, 2002
>
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Yesterday, Larry Bennett, a 16-year old, was shot in the head after he was 
>involved in a minor traffic accident. You probably didn't hear about it 
>because, well, how could he be dead if he wasn't shot by The Sniper?
>
>Yesterday, an unidentified woman was shot to death in her car in Fenton, 
>MI. You probably didn't hear about it because she had the misfortune of 
>not being shot by The Sniper.
>
>Two nights ago, Charles D. Bennett, 48, an apartment security guard, was 
>shot to death after confronting two teenagers in his parking lot in 
>Memphis, TN. You probably didn't hear about it because the sniper was too 
>busy sleeping in his car that night, and thus, poor Charles was not shot 
>by The Sniper.
>
>Yes, The Sniper has apparently been caught, so we can go back now to NOT 
>reporting the DOZENS of gun deaths that occur every day, the ones that 
>just aren't newsworthy because they happen in all those old boring ways -- 
>unlike the ways of The Sniper, who was interesting and creative and 
>exciting and scary! He played so much better on the news.
>
>Of course, had Congress not caved in to the NRA we would have known after 
>the first HOUR of the first day of the killings three weeks ago that those 
>bullets were coming out of a rifle that belonged to John 
>Williams/Mohammad. How would we know this? It's right there in the state 
>records in New Jersey: this gun was purchased this past July, under the 
>name of John Mohammad!
>
>Many more people died needlessly in the days and weeks after that first 
>hour of the shootings, and every one of their deaths could have probably 
>been prevented had we had a national ballistics fingerprinting data base.
>
>Thank you, Mr. Heston for this unnecessary carnage. Thank you, Mr. Bush, 
>for supporting Mr. Heston and his group's agenda -- which protects only 
>the criminals.
>
>And thank you, Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., for providing the gun used to 
>shoot the 13 people in the DC area. Bushmaster's president, Richard E. 
>Dyke, was the Maine finance chairman of George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential 
>campaign. According to Business Week, Dyke had to step down as Bush's 
>finance chair "after reporters began quizzing him about his business 
>dealings. Bushmaster Firearms Inc., is notorious for using loopholes to 
>sidestep a 1994 federal ban on assault rifles." Bush and Bushmaster. Too 
>tragically perfect.
>
>If everyone reading this letter (and you now number in the millions) would 
>share this fact with just one person who is thinking of skipping going to 
>the polls on Nov. 5th, I believe that on Nov. 6th, Mr. Bush will have 
>neither the Senate nor the House doing his or Heston's bidding. Americans 
>don't like people who assist serial killers in being able to ratchet up 
>their kills because The Sniper knows that his bullets are prohibited by 
>law from being traced to his gun.
>
>That, in a nutshell, is what the NRA is all about -- and I implore all 
>responsible gun owners and hunters to join with me in putting an end to 
>the NRA agenda once and for all. Don't give Bush his majority on November 
>5th. He's already seen to it that his cronies in big business have wiped 
>out your 401 (K), and they are doing their best to see that you are left 
>with no pension at all. That alone should be reason enough to NOT pull a 
>single lever for a Republican on Nov. 5th. Send a message. Do something brave.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Moore mike@michaelmoore.com www.michaelmoore.com
>
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