Jay Knox’s NRA Board Picks

Jay Knox writes in an open letter:

“Don Turner, formerly of Arizona, was the manager of the Ben Avery Shooting Facility and stood up to the city of Phoenix when it wanted to carve up the range in a land grab. I will vote for him.

“Anyone who receives 250 write-in votes is eligible to run for the 76th Director at the Annual Meeting, so my other votes are going to be ‘write-ins’ for Christopher W. Knox of Phoenix, Arizona and Jeffrey Allen Knox of Gainesville, Virginia.”

I still maintain we need a way to rate Board candidates, just like politicians are rated. No meaningful change will ever come about unless and until candidates can be rated and supported based on values and performance, and punished for betrayals and compromises. But no one evidently cares, guaranteeing more of the same.

Safe at Last, Safe at Last! Anna Kournikova Safe at Last!

“THE homeless man accused of stalking Russian tennis beauty Anna Kournikova has been issued with a civil restraining order.”

Let’s see, he stalks her both physically and via sexually explicit emails. He swims nude to her estate. He’s already been behind bars for stabbing a man. He’s hinting at pleading insanity. And if that isn’t enough, he’s a dude who knows who the individual members of the Spice Girls are--that’s nuts just by itself. (God help me—I saw a commercial and learned the Fanta Girls have individual names!)

I hope Anna feels safe with her “civil restraining order” when this wackjob is released. I’d be surprised if she doesn’t have armed bodyguards, but what about the next woman he fixates on?

The best restraining orders are issued from a modified Weaver or isosceles stance.

How Gun Owners Can Make Society Safer and Protect Americans

Jennifer Freeman (cool last name, huh?) of Liberty Belles thinks ordinary Americans have a role to play in protecting our nation’s borders.

A citizen militia defending community, state and nation—why that’s a concept worthy of our Founders!

San Francisco Handgun Ban Media Project

Guy Smith wants to educate the public in San Francisco so that the proposed gun ban is defeated. He’s recruiting support for the project at http://www.gunfacts.info/sfban/.

If you’re not already aware of Gun Facts, check it out. It’s a great resource, and this announcement just reminded me to add it to my list of links.

Carner on "Standing Up For America"

From Rick Stanley:

"Charles Robert Carner will be the featured guest on 'Standing Up For America' with Rick Stanley, Sunday night at 7:00 PM MST, February 27, 2005, at http://www.americanvoiceradio.net to discuss his new movie remake of the cult classic 'Vanishing Point' . This movie has an incredible 'freedom and liberty' message not seen in mainstream Hollywood. I am not talking about the 'freedom and liberty' mentioned over and over by President Bush and his Police State of America either. We are talking the real thing. I would urge folks to listen in Sunday night and to check out the film as well.

"Information about the American Voice Radio Network and Rick Stanley are available by going to http://www.stanley2002.orgwith a link at the top of the main page for the Radio Network."

Imagine That!

"Young people have some funny ideas about those days," [Black Panther historian Billy X Jennings] says. "They think it was all about the guns, but the guns were just a symbol. It was the right to carry them, and use them to defend yourself, that was important.” [Note: registration required to view article.]

Imagine that! The individual right to keep and bear arms stated clearly in the Contra Costa Times—with no hysterical counter-argument against the idea!!!

“Guns were front and center from the start," the article tells us, "partly because self-defense resonated in the black community because of a series of alleged police brutality incidents, partly because all that hardware got people's attention fast."

Imagine that! Guns are deemed useful for protecting citizens from abuse by those in power. Why, isn’t that the “Insurrectionary Theory” leftwing rags like the CCT discredit as the province and fantasy of white knuckle-draggers?

“That became evident in May 1967," the story continues, "when the Panthers exploded out of obscurity when news cameras filmed them on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, carrying rifles to protest a bill that would have restricted gun ownership.”

Imagine that! Instead of suing gun makers, like the NAACP, or sponsoring gun turn-in programs, like so many urban churches, a group of blacks demand their right to keep and bear arms. They scared the Establishment so much with that event, that NRA’s Second Amendment Champion Ronald Reagan signed The Mulford Act into law, banning that type of open carry in California (along with supporting a host of other unconstitutional gun control edicts).

There's no outraged quote from a representative of VPC or the Million Moms/Brady Campaign, or from the cops, or from some posturing politician. The paper hasn't demonized the Panthers for being armed. Imagine that!

And, before protesting the Panthers were racist commie thugs, that’s not the point. This is.

Sauce for the Goose

Well, if anti-gun CNN can violate firearm edicts with impunity, why can't anti-gun churches?

Just don't expect "authoritah" to treat them like they would you and me. When it comes to the antis violating the law to make a point, BATFU has been committed to looking the other way for years. After all, if you have a group of useful idiots out there helping you demonize guns in private hands, that's free advertising.

Plea for Help: Publicola Was Here

Read Publicola's take, written in Sept. 2003, on the lawsuit against the "Plea for Help" gun store owners.

I Need a Drink...

“Britain’s Kalashnikov Joint Stock Vodka company has revealed plans to change its name to get rid of the military connotations. The move came after a number of campaigns were launched to boycott the brand because it allegedly promoted violence.”

Thanks to Dennis Walker of PRO for tipping me off to this one.

Vanishing Point Reappears

FOX TV Movie releasing to DVD in March
By David Codrea

PRESS RELEASE:
“Charles Robert Carner’s action-packed remake of the cult classic 'Vanishing Point' roars onto DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment, March 8, 2005. Viggo Mortensen (“The Lord of the Rings”) stars as Kowalski, the lone hero in the Dodge Challenger who leads an army of lawmen on a wild car chase across the American West…”

Viggo Mortensen in VANISHING POINT
Produced by Alan C. Blomquist
Directed by Charles Robert Carner
Screenwriter Charles Robert Carner
“Vanishing Point” also stars Jason Priestley, Christine Elise, Keith David, Steve Railsback, John Doe and Peta Wilson
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HISTORY
Back when I was young and immortal, I fancied myself fast behind the wheel. But this was the era of muscle cars, and as proud as I was of my old Buick V-8, it fell short of the "gold standard"--it wasn't a Mopar.

As if to remind boys like me of our place in the food chain, the movie “Vanishing Point” came screaming into theaters, featuring Barry Newman as the pill-popping Kowalski, who leads police on an interstate chase over a bet. But for me, the real star of the film was the white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with the 440 Magnum engine.

“Vanishing Point” became a hit with a cult following, for many, the benchmark for car chase movies. There was no way for me to know at the time that a generation later it would bring a friend into my life, resulting in collaborative efforts on GunTruths.com and the Citizens of America national advertising campaign for gun rights.

When I first heard of Charles Robert Carner I was producing a newsletter for the Westside Los Angeles NRA Member’s Council, 2nd Amendment West, my first foray into gun rights commentary. Because he was a nominal member of the Council and wanted to publicize the film to gun owners, Charlie contacted me about his soon-to-be-broadcast television movie for 20th Century-Fox, a remake of the Newman classic.

“What is this guy,” I remember thinking to myself, “nuts?”

Besides, what did a car movie have to do with guns?

As it turned out, not that much--at least, not as it applies to We the People. But it had plenty to do with the main reason we have guns. It had plenty to do with freedom.

What follows is not going to be a “movie review” per se, as much as a series of observations. You can read a review I am told is good here. I informed Charlie I didn’t want to read it until after I had finished this article, to avoid any influence on what I wanted to say.
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THE FILM (and why gun owners/liberty activists should care)
First impressions: Gentle guitar notes set a sad, serene mood. A horned toad establishes the terrain. Machine sounds invade—bulldozers, it turns out, doing what? Squad car lights are flashing. Helicopter blades thud. Other instruments have joined the guitar; the music is more urgent now, and ominous. A Man in Black directs activities. The bulldozers have formed a roadblock. A white Challenger appears over a rise, pursued by flashing police cars.

Protestors carry signs on the sidelines. One, just briefly visible, reads “Don’t Forget Mt. Carmel.”

This is a “mainstream” television movie?

“If you do not stay back,” a bullhorn blares, “you will be arrested.”

The Challenger stops. We see a close up shot of Kowalski, the driver. His face looks grim, determined, resigned.

It is Easter Sunday in Riddle, ID.

Basic Plot/Synopsis:
Former Army Ranger and racer Kowalski restores vintage muscle cars and delivers them to customers. While in transit to deliver a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, he learns his pregnant wife, who suffers from Lupus, has been admitted to the hospital and is gravely ill. Unable to schedule a flight at the local airport, he decides to take advantage of the awesome machine at his disposal and drive from New Mexico to the hospital in Boise. Cops stop him for speeding. They won't listen to him and want to take him in to process his citation, which will result in a long delay. Desperate, Kowalski takes off and the chase is on. And then the feds get involved.

In Carner's words, "The story is also a spiritual quest." It explores Kowalski's religious awakening, thanks to his wife, as well as the deep bond and commitment the two have made to each other. Faith and the sanctity of marriage--there are two concepts Hollywood doesn't beat to death.

Important Differences:
The car looks the same as it did in the Newman classic. There is a difference, we learn--the 440 Magnum has been replaced with a 426 Hemi.

One big difference is with Kowalski. Mortensen's has a first name (Jimmy), and unlike the pill-popper in the original, the new Kowalski has a purpose.

There's another big difference. This remake focuses its lens on the government's War on Freedom, and the evil tactics they employ.

"In the 25 years between Richard Sarafian's original and my remake," Carner writes, "the right and the left had switched places. It was deep in the Clinton era. The 'counter-cultural' 'anti-establishment' attitude of the original gave it a hip, '60's left-liberal-nihilism. In my remake, it's the small businessman (once the backbone of America) who has become the outcast - and that neo-fascist state is populated by Leftists. The FBI = the Gestapo. The theme - the individual vs the state - is the same; it's just that the state is now the former '60's radicals in power."

Memorable Characters:
That's why my favorite character in the new VP is The Man in Black, sinister FBI supervisor Warren Taftley, played as the Javert to Mortensen's Valjean by Tony-winning stage star Keith David. We first meet him when the camera pans down from portraits of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, as he is instructing a subordinate to tie Kowalski's flight in with drugs and guns.

"How do you figure guns?" the agent asks.

"Idaho. Extremists. Right-wing militias," Taftley replies. "That's our way in--domestic terrorism, high explosives, planning another Oklahoma City."

"It could be--but we don't have any evidence," the agent cautions.

"We'll get it," Taftley confidently assures him. "He's run across four state lines. It's gotta be something big."

In the minds of those corrupted by power, there can be no innocent explanation for a subject exercising freedom. We are all suspects. And evidence is just a formality.

Carner did something cool here in the casting, breaking away from sterotypes--having a black man represent corrupt authority to the point of being an enthusiastic persecutor. That had to be a very liberating role to play, and Mr. David does it well.

"We worked Keith's shooting schedule around a play he was doing," Charlie tells me. "He was great and he really enjoyed playing a guy who assumed his own righteousness to the point of absolute dictatorship."

There are other great characters as well--Kowalski is assisted in evading his pursuers by a happenstance ally, a libertarian/Constitutionalist talk radio broadcaster known as "The Voice," portrayed by Jason Priestley, in another bit of inspired casting that certainly helps break the sterotype of a Beverly Hills 90210 heartthrob.

Replacing the hip "SuperSoul" role Cleavon Little played so well in the original VP, The Voice warns Kowalski about his pursuers so that he can take alternate routes, all the while decrying tyrannical abuses and philosophizing to his listeners about liberty-oriented themes, and how "The Bill of Rights is as forgotten as the Dead Sea Scrolls."

"Once upon a time," The Voice laments, "the police would have given this man an escort, instead of trying to run him into the ground!"

Another good portrayal is turned in by Steve Railsback, playing Sgt. Preston of the New Mexico State police.

"It takes a Mopar to catch a Mopar," Preston explains to his deputy, abandoning his squad car for a black '68 Charger R/T in a subtle tribute to another great car chase film, Bullitt. (The Charger should have blown the doors off Steve McQueen's 390 fastback Mustang).

The rest of the cast acquit themselves nicely as well. Christine Elise as Raphinia, Kowalski's wife, provides a moral anchor and spiritual mentor for Jimmy, and the gorgeous Peta Wilson, as the Motorcycle Girl, plays a provocative temptress and then ally.

The Ending:
I won't reveal it here-- you'll have to get the DVD and see it for yourself. I will say that Carner doesn't let up on his freedom theme. We see the protestors more clearly now. In addition to the "Mt. Carmel" sign, there's one that reads "Remember Ruby Ridge."

How did he get away with it on Establishment TV?

"You can tell I had a lot of fun on the movie," he tells me. "When I wrote the script, I just ranted away - went for it. I figured when the network started whining, I could pull back a little and still respect myself in the morning. But when Viggo signed on - and was only available right this minute - that first draft got green-lit. And the network never squawked. I kept all the politics in the final cut."

Carner's is an important voice in the film industry for principles of freedom that are almost universally ignored. "Vanishing Point" is a good example of popular art we could use a lot more of.
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CHARLES ROBERT CARNER FILMOGRAPHY
Chicago-born Charles Robert Carner began working in the entertainment industry after graduating valedictorian of his class at Columbia College, where he directed the film Assassins, starring Joe Mantegna, which was named Best Student Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Carner then went to work as a story editor for director Tony Bill, writing screenplays in his spare time. His first produced script was Seduced, starring Gregory Harrison and Cybill Shepherd. He followed that with the action-adventure feature Gymkata; Let's Get Harry, with Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall and Gary Busey; and the telefilm Eyes of a Witness, starring Jennifer Grey and Daniel J. Travanti. Carner expanded into producing on the feature film Blind Fury, with Rutger Hauer. He then began realizing his lifelong dream of directing his own scripts. He began with episodes of "Midnight Caller", "Reasonable Doubts" and "The Untouchables", before moving on to such television movies as A Killer Among Friends and One Woman's Courage.

Carner's list of television movies continued to expand, with such titles as Vanishing Point, starring The Lord of the Rings’ Viggo Mortensen, and The Fixer, starring Jon Voight, both of which went on to win several awards. In July 2000, his film Who Killed Atlanta's Children?, starring Jim Belushi and Gregory Hines debuted on Showtime and became that network's highest rated movie of the year. Carner made a huge splash on basic cable when he wrote the TNT Western Crossfire Trail, the highest-rated cable movie in television history, starring Tom Selleck. He wrote, directed and executive produced the holiday hit Christmas Rush for TBS Superstation, starring Dean Cain and Eric Roberts, and directed Red Water, the highest-rated basic cable movie in history, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristy Swanson for TBS Superstation. His last network directorial effort, Judas, aired on ABC Television in 2004.

Mr. Carner is a Life Member of both the National Rifle Association and the Sierra Club, serves on the Executive Committee of Catholics in Media, and is a biographee in Who's Who in America.

You can read his gun commentaries here. (Click on "GunTruths Correspondents")

--Report compiled from various sources including Mr. Carner.

The Geek's NRA Board Recommendations

GeekWithA.45 tells us who he endorses for the NRA Board of Directors and why.

I'd be curious to see how his picks would answer this.

“A Plea for Help”

I don’t normally involve myself in individual requests for assistance. This one came through, and the gross unfairness of the situation struck me—as well as the implications for destroying lawful commerce in firearms. Here’s the gist of things:

Teenage reptiles plot and execute a “thrill killing” of two pizza deliverers. They obtain their weapons by breaking into a gun shop.

Lawsuits are filed by the victims’ survivors. Among those named, who settle for an undisclosed amount: the burglarized gun store and their alarm company.

Aside from having the predictable effect of scaring off New Jersey proprietors from dealing in firearms, the former owners of the gun store have also had their financial lives destroyed.

I received the following from Lawrence C. Farrell, Jr., of Gun Owners of New Jersey:

“A PLEA FOR HELP

"Hi Everyone, I am making a personal plea to help some folks who really need it. Keith and Sheila Hughes are the young couple who owned the gun shop in Sussex Co that was broken into 7 years ago and a gun stolen was used in a murder. They had followed every regulation concerning store security, however, the NJ courts said they were negligent and responsible for the crime and have been suffering ever since. I have been recently notified by friends that they are about to lose their home and belongings because of a court decision still related to the incident 7 years ago. They have lost their business, their credit, their jobs;---need I go further, simply because they owned a gun store in NJ. They are a young couple with 2 small children and they don't deserve this.

"On another note, the murder victim’s family sued and won millions of dollars from their insurance. Welcome to NJ! To get to the point, please send a small donation to them and let them know you are a gun owner and they have friends. They are really at the end of their rope after years of harassment. A $20.00 donation from each of us (or whatever you can) will go far to pay some bills and boost their morale.

"Please send donations to:

"HUGHES FAMILY C/O Vernon United Methodist Church PO Box 345 Vernon, NJ 07452

"THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ANY GUN STORE OWNER OR ANY OF US IF OUR HOMES WERE BURGLARIZED. THEY NEED SUPPORT FROM THE GUN OWNERS COMMUNITY. PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT CARE. We appreciate this very much.

"Peggy and Mike Bodner, ANJRPC"

Lawrence asks that donors write “GONJ” on the memo line of their checks.

More on the Questionable CNN Gun Buy

The Smallest Minority wants to do a “blogswarm.” (I’m new to blogging, but I can guess what that means. Still, please bear with me. Up until a few days ago, I’d have said “fisking” is what they’re teaching Massachusetts public school kids to do):

TriggerFinger has done a great job keeping on top of this story:
*His letter to CNN
*For those having trouble viewing the CNN video...
*CNN Felony Gunswarm!
* ...and a straw purchase, too!
*The 1968 Gun Control Act
*CNN reporter commits a federal felony to get an anti-gun story

Did CNN Just Commit a "Gun Crime"?

Freedom Sight points us to a discussion over at The Claire Files. Apparently, a reporter at anti-gun CNN just committed a federal felony by purchasing a .50 cal. rifle without going through all the “legal” transfer requirements. Either that or he did, and he’s not disclosing it in his story to make it look like just anybody can do this.

To see the video, go here and click on the “Powerful Rifle Readily Available” link in the Video graphic at the top right of the page.

NOTE: "To view this CNN content you must have RealOne SuperPass or CNN NewsPass."

NRA Bashes U.N. on Small-Arms Reduction

"Others here may suggest the U.S. to get out of the U.N.” Wayne LaPierre thunders (just like he means it). “Right now I just want the U.N. to get out of the U.S." [More]

Right.

Will you put your money where your mouth is, Mr. LaPierre?

Will you fold up shop on NRA's much-ballyhooed UN NGO and withdraw support and NRA membership from the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities?

Will you have the Board pass a resolution that NRA's official and only policy toward global gungrabbers is "Molon Labe"?

I wrote a rebuttal appearing in the Sept. 2003 issue of GUNS AND AMMO to a piece featured in their May 2003 issue that praised the World Forum as a “pro gun watchdog.”

In it, I documented WFFSSA’s backing of gun marking/ registration schemes, along with their assisting the UN in defining "non-sporting" firearms, and recommended "Rather than working with [the UN], we should withdraw and conduct our sovereign affairs as prescribed by the Constitution--observing Washington's admonishment to 'steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.'"

Interestingly, the California-based NRA Members Councils, which don't do a thing that is disapproved by their masters in Fairfax, attacked my endorsement of the Constitution and of Washington's philosophy, complaining "it is hard to imagine how an almost Islamist-like exclusionary world-view will enable the Codreas of the world to convert more than the occasional wandering 'Aryan' to the paradise of a rapidly diminishing gunowner 'reservation.'

"It is apparently more important for Codrea and his ilk to maintain an ideological purity of thought rather than achieve any of the incremental positional successes that could best guarantee eventual victory."

Just like all those incremental successes gun owners have enjoyed in California, right?

One more question: By calling for expulsion of the UN, does Wayne's new "ideological purity of thought" and "Islamist-like exclusionary world-view" now make him one of my "ilk"?

The Politics of Suicide

There goes that darned Nicki Fellenzer-- making sense again...

Workplace Violence Carries Heavy Cost

"Never allow guns, knives or other weapons in or around company property, including parking lots," Louise Rogers-Feher authoritatively postures, as if she knows what the hell she's talking about.

"In some instances, employees have gone to their cars during breaks and returned with weapons," she warns.

Great idea, Louise! You first.

Let's ban all guns in all workplaces.

INCLUDING the Baltimore County Police Department, where YOU work.

I, Propagandist

One of my old GunTruths posters has turned up on the “Classroom Tools” website, along with a dissection of the “propaganda” techniques it employs.

The poster features the infamous AP photo taken during the federal home invasion to snatch Elian Gonzales, along with the caption, "Gun Control: The incomprehensible theory that this guy, and people like him, are the only ones who should be armed."

The analyst draws some conclusions about my intent that reflect much more on what’s going on inside his head than went on in mine. For instance:

5. At whom is it targeted?
Americans fearful of Big Government taking away their "2nd Amendment rights"

While GunTruths was definitely intended to be a resource for Second Amendment activists, the posters (as we stated on their index page) were primarily intended to make “people who support gun control …out of conditioning rather than out of deep conviction” take a closer look at the logical and moral implications of citizen disarmament.

7. In one clear, brief sentence, summarize the message with which you've decided to work.
You need guns to protect yourself against tyranny.

I would actually state this in a different way: A tyranny is the inevitable result of a monopoly of force.

10. Clearly state the behavior or belief the author wants from the target.
The author wants to reinforce the belief of those who already know that governments are tyrannical.

S/he wants these people to continue voting for and contributing to those who promise to protect their "2nd amendment rights".

Ah, no, I wasn’t attempting to “reinforce beliefs” with a poster. What good would that do? I was attempting to call hard evidence to the attention of people who might not have thought of gun control as tyranny-enabling citizen disarmament. And the poster is silent on voting for or contributing to politicians. It’s more elemental than that.

11. Does the message attempt to manipulate with emotion, reason or both?
Emotion

Sure, emotion plays a big part. The AP photo does that by itself. But the sentiment and conclusion of the caption—that gun control results in firearms controlled by the government, and that such control results in citizens helpless against abuses of power—is something I’ve never heard a reasoned argument against.

12. Describe how you think the manipulation works?
Red letters signal alarm.

Yo, egghead—I hate to disappoint you. But I’m not an artist, see? My sense of composition is pretty rudimentary. The reason is no more complicated than this: I picked red because I tried a couple other colors and thought it looked the prettiest.

The poster ignores most of the facts surrounding this particular situation—the Federal Government's need to enforce a court order to turn Elian Gonzalez (the child) over to his father after repeated attempts to negotiate the turnover were rejected by those holding the boy; the same people who had lost every legal challenge they'd filed in an effort to keep him. For example, there is no acknowledgement that the situation was resolved peacefully, and that Elian was photographed happily in his father's arms just a few hours later. Neither is there any consideration of what might have occurred had the man apparently attempting to protect Elian had a weapon. In fact, no one was injured or killed. Would that have been the case had the protector been armed? Probably not, unless he was unwilling to use his weapon; and in that case what would be the sense in having one?

No, the poster illuminates the facts: The deployment of stormtroopers against the public is the act of a tyrannical government. There was never any indication of violence on the part of the family warranting a military strike. There were many ways this could have been resolved without resorting to blitzkrieg home invasion tactics.

But the analyst’s prejudice is clear: The only safety lie in submission. Into the cattle cars, people. Resistance is futile.

13.Do you believe this item was successful propaganda?
Absolutely

14. What evidence supports your answer to the last question?
Polls showed that information like that in this poster contributed to a conviction among the members of the Cuban community in South Florida to support George W. Bush over Al Gore in the presidential election that took place a few months after the events illustrated by this image. Given the closeness of the outcome of the presidential race in Florida, this type of propaganda was clearly one of the factors that led to Mr. Bush's narrow Electoral College victory, and subsequent ascension to the presidency.

First, despite our stated intent to reach outside the choir with our posters, I doubt this saw much circulation in South Florida’s Cuban community. And I have never been silent in my criticisms of the Bush administration’s manipulation and betrayal of gun owners.

But it’s not like this “scholar” has been right in much else of his analysis.

GUNS Magazine: "A Judgment Call"

Folksinger Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary believes we need more gun laws. Performing at the 2004 Million Mom March rally urging Congress to renew the federal "assault weapon" ban, Yarrow's main emphasis in the gun control movement has been to protect children.

It's too bad he wasn't thinking about protecting them when he was convicted of a sex offense for molesting a 14-year-old girl--but perhaps it explains why he wouldn't want to make it easy for parents to own a gun.

Read complete article here:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_3_51/ai_n8709820

More Black Arrow

I just ordered the hardback.

After reading Thomas L. Knapp's review, I didn't want to put it off any longer.

With all the good buzz, I wanted to make sure I got a copy before they ran out.