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Folksinger Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary believes we need more gun laws. Performing at the 2004 Million Morn 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.
Gun control advocate Britney Spears annulled her quickie Vegas marriage within hours on the grounds that she "lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage." Nine months later her understanding had evidently ripened, because, oops, she did it again, marrying a backup dancer who had fathered a two-year-old and a newborn with another woman.
Based on her support of an "Open Letter to the NRA," it is Britney's opinion that a host of additional gun restrictions should be enacted. After all, you may not have the mature judgment to safely possess guns.
Actor and United Nations "Messenger of Peace" Michael Douglas is at the forefront of the global effort to control small arms, and is a leading advocate for additional gun laws. This is the man who reportedly underwent treatment for sex addiction, claiming "Sex is a wave that just sweeps over me. When the urge comes, I am helpless."
Apparently, Mr. Douglas doesn't trust that most of us have the self-control, moral development and emotional stability needed to safely own and use guns.
Where do we begin with grunge diva Courtney Love? Multiple arrests for drug abuse, reportedly shooting heroin while pregnant? Assault with a deadly weapon, attacking a woman at her ex-boyfriend's home? Hitting a man at a nightclub in the head with a microphone stand? Getting arrested for disrupting a transatlantic flight? Being assigned a guardian, losing custody of her daughter and being institutionalized?
How about if we just focus on her statement to the Million Moms that US gun laws are "nihilistic and barbaric"?
Who can forget Rosie O'Donnell ambushing actor Tom Selleck on her talk show, because he lent his likeness and support to the NRA? A Million Morn emcee, her most notorious proclamation came after the Columbine shootings, where she raged "Outlaw all guns, and put all gun owners in jail!"
"I am one of the haunted," Rosie admits. "I think I have been depressed for years. It runs in my family, along with alcoholism and an absurd ability to deny the obvious."
Obviously.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were bequeathed to us by disciplined men of sober temperament and judgment, classically educated giants whose words and deeds still shield us through the ages. It was these leaders who understood that freedom required "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Peter, Britney, Michael, Courtney and Rosie's judgment vs. that of the Founding Fathers. Tough choice.
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