[257] in peace2
Million Mom's March in DC this Sunday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (F. AuYeung)
Thu May 11 00:50:12 2000
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To: peace-list@MIT.EDU, peace-women@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:49:53 -0400
From: "F. AuYeung" <auyeung@MIT.EDU>
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From: "Ozgur Basak Alkan" <boalkan@hotmail.com>
To: auyeung@MIT.EDU
Subject: Fwd: Million Mom March
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:04:45 EEST
>The following info from the website at http://www.millionmommarch.com/
>
> MILLION MOM MARCH MOTHERS' DAY 2000 is
> dedicated to the mission of educating our children
> and our country about the life-threatening danger of
> guns.
>
> Although simplistic and seemingly self-evident, this
> mission is in direct conflict with a powerful, heavily
> financed cultural and political juggernaut, which
> justifies misuse of guns with references to freedom,
> liberty and the American Dream.
>
> We, the mothers, know that life is the first inalienable
> right promised by our Constitution. Our children's lives
> far outweigh the right for just anyone, especially
> juveniles, to carry a semi-automatic assault weapon
> or Saturday night Special.
>
> While we acknowledge that guns may be necessary
> for hunting, law enforcement, and national security,
> the proliferation of firearms intended for one purpose
> only - killing another human being - has become
> untenable.
>
> We, the mothers, are calling on Congress to enact
> common sense gun control legislation by Mothers' Day
> 2000. Come May 14th, we mothers will go to
> Washington, D.C. either to celebrate sensible
> legislation or to protest bipartisan ineptitude.
>
> We, as mothers, endorse the following.
>
> Sensible "Cooling Off" Periods and Background Checks
>
> We believe that it is only common sense that sensible
> "cooling off" periods and extensive background checks
> be required of any individual who wants to purchase
> from any person or place weapons intended only for
> killing or injuring humans.
>
> License Handgun Owners and Register All Handguns
>
> We call on Congress to require all handgun owners to
> be licensed and that they be required to register their
> weapons with the proper authorities. It makes sense.
>
> Safety Locks for All Handguns
>
> Guns, like every other consumer product sold in
> America, have to meet minimum safety standards.
> Gun manufacturers should have to design guns with
> locks built in, and with other common-sense devices
> like loaded-chamber indicators and child-proofing.
>
> Limit Purchases to one-handgun-per-month
>
> We believe that it is only common sense to end straw
> purchase transactions where individual who may
> legally purchase a firearm is hired to purchase
> firearms for Gun traffickers. These guns are sold on
> the illegal market and eventually wind up on our
> nation's streets, killing our kids.
>
> No-Nonsense Enforcement of Gun Laws
>
> We call on all officers of the law to assume a
> no-nonsense approach in enforcing existing gun laws
> and to join us in our mutual crusade for stronger
> legislation.
>
> Enlistment of Help from Corporate America
>
> We call on all child-friendly, nonviolent stores,
> companies, and corporations to sponsor us in these
> pursuits by advertising our message that guns -- in
> the wrong hands - is simply unacceptable. We call on
> the like minded to work with community law
> enforcement agencies to offer swaps of meaningful
> goods and services for guns. And that the guns be
> destroyed by the proper authorities. In turn, we, the
> mothers, will patronize all child-friendly, nonviolent
> sponsors who join us in this mission.
>
> RECRUITMENT
>
> Our aim is to recruit -from all walks of life -mothers,
> grandmothers, stepmothers, godmothers, foster
> mothers, future mothers, and all others willing to be
> "honorary mothers" in this crusade. Our goal is to
> educate and mobilize the mothers of America to this
> cause. Our commitment as voting citizens is to real
> this goal by Mother's Day.
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