Saturday, March 10, 2007

"Leave My Family Out of It"

Selected quotes:
...Democrats and Republicans clashed again Friday over a mailer attacking several Democratic lawmakers for their vote last month against a gun-rights bill...

“This is the first time that these politics of hate are going to go out while we sit in this body,” he said...

The mailer, sent to households in five lawmakers' districts, blasted each individual lawmaker for voting against House Bill 340, which broadens the definition of self-defense when using a firearm.

The two-page mailer pictured each respective lawmaker, described them as “anti-gun,” said they believe “using deadly force to defend yourself against a criminal makes you the criminal,” and listed a phone number where constituents could call and tell them their “anti-gun stance is dead wrong.”

It also had a picture of a corpse in a body bag, with the words “Is this your neighbor?” superimposed across the top of the picture...

“It was blatantly callous; it was unnecessary,” he said. “It was unprincipled. Take me on; I can deal with it. I've got thick skin. But leave my family out of it.

Why? Your presuming authority to vote against our unalienable right to defend ourselves doesn't leave our families out of it--talk about "politics of hate."

Your betrayals are personal to us. You're the ones oppressing--and when people protest, you paint yourselves the victims.

Here is what these creatures voted against. And now they're all upset because someone unequivocally explained what their vote meant to the people who will be affected by it.

1 comment:

E. David Quammen said...

The hypocrites never will get it David. They have remained the same since the beginning of time. It appears to be a birth defect, or they were just born evil and stupid. Pity perhaps, should be shown on them. But, it is very hard to emit any for them. How these creatures get in power is beyond my comprehension....