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SEE THAT THIS GETS SENT TO EVERY VETERAN & GUNOWNER,
YOU KNOW OR CAN THINK OF!

As a former member of 1960 & 61 MCB Camp LeJeune rifle team,
many of my
former team mates, went on to be snipers & sniper instructors
for the
1st & 3rd Marine Divisions, in Viet Nam.

This outrage, should be read by anyone who has ever worn the
uniform of
any of this nation's branches of service.

PLEASE...PLEASE pass this on.

Semper fi;
Dave

PS: This comes from a guy, who on 12 December 1969, burned the
American
flag and led a COMMUNIST ORGANIZED ANTI- AMERICAN protest in
Oslo.
And to think our GUTLESS Senators, would not remove this traitor
from
office.

===========

June 21 Neal Knox Report -- By a stroke of the
bureaucratic pen,
the Veterans Administration and BATF have disarmed more than
90,000 veterans who have at some point been administratively
declared "mentally incompetent" -- either for hospitalization or
pension reasons.

Information that they are "mental incompetents" has been
transmitted to the FBI for use in NICS firearms background
checks.
Anyone on the list who attempts to purchase a gun will be
denied,
and is subject to criminal prosecution.

The Gun Control Act's list of prohibited owners and buyers
includes
"adjudicated" mental incompetents, intended to be restricted to
persons
adjudicated by a court of law -- to prevent abuse or loss of gun
rights
through
voluntary commitment.

According to a June 2 letter from Robert J. Epley, Director,
Compensation
and Pension Service of the Veterans' Administration, "ATF
incorporated
the VA definition of incompetent 'because of injury or disease
lack the
mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs.'"

That is outrageous. An administrative determination does
not comport
with the law and can, and probably has, resulted in abuse. Any
of those
veterans who possesses a gun is subject to Federal prosecution,
as is any
who attempt to buy a hunting shotgun.

If you're a member of a veterans' organization, give them a
copy of
Epley's
letter at http://www.vba-arms.nctsw.navy.mil/060700.html
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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT -- June 2000 (Part 2)

The Lessons of History

The chief reason America has remained a free country is the
widespread private ownership of firearms. Individual ownership
of guns
made the American Revolution possible. The principal purpose of
the
Second Amendment was to maintain our freedom from government. It
is an insult to our heritage to imply that the Founding Fathers
wrote
the Second Amendment just to protect deer hunters.

My good friend, the late Reverend Stephen Dunker, C.M., was a
missionary in China who was imprisoned by the Communists during
the early 1950s. I heard him tell of his experiences many times.
When the Communists first took over the area where he lived,
they
appeared to be good rulers. They established law and order and
cleaned up the traffic in drugs and prostitutes. Then one day
the
Communist bosses announced, "You can see that we have
established a good society and you have no need for your guns.
Everyone must come in the night and dump all guns in the town
square." The people believed and obeyed. The next day, the reign
of
terror began, with public executions and cruel imprisonments.
Everyone accused of being a "landlord" was dragged through the
streets and executed; a "landlord" was anyone who farmed his
little
plot of ground with two water buffalo instead of one.

Gun confiscation leads to a loss of freedom, increased crime,
and
the government moving to the left. This has already happened in
England and Australia. After Great Britain banned most guns in
1997,
making armed self-defense punishable as murder, violence
skyrocketed because criminals know that law abiding citizens
have
been disarmed. Armed crime rose 10% in 1998. The Sunday Times
of London reported on the new black market in guns: "Up to 3
million
illegal guns are in circulation in Britain, leading to a rise in
drive-by
shootings and gangland-style execution." There has been such a
heavy increase in the use of knives for violent attacks that new
laws
have been passed giving police the power to search anyone for
knives
in designated areas.

In 1996 Australia banned 60% of all firearms and required
registration
of all guns and the licensing of gun owners. Police confiscated
640,381 firearms, going door to door without search warrants.
Two
years later, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that
all crime
had risen and armed robberies were up 44%.

Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., described his first-hand experience
in
Cuba. Before 1958, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista had all
citizens
register their firearms. After the revolution, Raul and Fidel
Castro had
their Communist thugs go door to door and, using the
registration
lists, confiscate all firearms. As soon as the Cubans were
disarmed,
that was the end of their freedom.

Tyrannical governments kill far more people than private
criminals.
The Nazis conducted a massive search-and-seizure operation in
1933 to disarm their political opponents, in 1938 to disarm the
Jews,
and when they occupied Europe in 1939-41 they proclaimed the
death penalty for anyone who failed to surrender all guns within
24
hours.

The first line of safety has to be an ability to defend
yourself. In some
areas, a woman who is being stalked by her ex-husband must wait
10 days to buy a gun, even if her life has been threatened. Some
cities criminalize carrying guns for self-defense but make
exceptions
for people carrying money or jewels. Are money and jewels more
important to protect than people's lives?

History teaches us that registration leads to the confiscation
of guns
and that is the goal of many gun control advocates. Pete
Shields,
founder of Handgun Control Inc., told The New Yorker: "The first
problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced
and
sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns
registered. The final problem is to make possession of all
handguns
and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, police,
licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed
gun
collectors -- totally illegal."

Atlanta public-safety commissioner George Napper told U.S News,
"If
I had my druthers, the only people who would have guns would be
those who enforce the law." Like those who "enforced the law" at
Waco? or at Ruby Ridge? or invading a Miami home to grab Elián
Gonzalez?

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a
free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not
be
infringed." Polls show that up to 80% of the public believe
citizens
have a constitutional right to own guns.

If the First Amendment read "A free press being necessary to the
security of a free state, Congress shall make no law respecting
. . .
the freedom of speech, or of the press," nobody would argue that
free
speech belongs only to newspapers. Likewise, they should not
argue
that the right to keep and bear arms belongs only to government
agents.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority in
U.S. v.
Verdugo-Urquidez (1990), stated that the term "the people" has
the
same meaning in the First, Second, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth
Amendments. All those five amendments in the Bill of Rights use
the
term "the people" to guarantee a right for individual citizens,
not just
some collective right of the state as a whole. There is no
reason to
believe that the Second Amendment uses the term "the people"
differently from the other four amendments.

The claim that "militia" just refers to the National Guard is
ridiculous.
The same Congress that passed the Second Amendment also
passed the Militia Act of 1792 which defined militia as "each
and
every able-bodied male citizen" from age 18 to 45 (with some
exceptions) and stated that each one shall "provide himself"
with a
gun, ammunition, and a bayonet.

The currently effective Militia Act substantially keeps the same
language ("all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and .
. .
under 45"), and further defines militia as: "(1) the organized
militia,
which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2)
the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the
militia
who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
(10
U.S.C. 311)

In recent years, a scholarly consensus has emerged across the
political spectrum that the Second Amendment protects an
individual
right. Between 1980 and 1995, of 39 law review articles, 35
noted the
Supreme Court's prior acknowledgement of the individual right of
the
Second Amendment and only four claimed the right is a collective
right of the states (and 3 of those 4 were authored or
co-authored by
persons connected with the gun-control lobby).


The Founding Fathers on the Right to Own Guns:

James Madison: Americans have "the advantage of being armed" --
unlike the citizens of other countries where "the governments
are
afraid to trust the people with arms."

* Patrick Henry: "The great objective is that every man be
armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun."
* George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most
effectual way to enslave them."
* Samuel Adams: "The Constitution shall never be construed .
. . to prevent the people of the United States who are
peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
* Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning
the people at large is that they be properly armed."
* Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty, it is essential
that
the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be
taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."

For more information: John Lott Jr., More Guns, Less Crime (2nd
edition, 2000). Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., articles on England
and
Australia in the Medical Sentinel, May/June 2000, and letter on
Cuba
to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, December 28, 1999.
Professor Sanford Levinson, "The Embarrassing Second
Amendment," Yale Law Journal, 1989. Professor James D. Wright,
"Second Thoughts about Gun Control," The Public Interest, Spring
1988. Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed, Independent
Institute, 1994, and the Wall Street Journal, June 4, 1999.
Daniel D.
Polsby, Firearms and Crime, Independent Institute, 1997. Joyce
Lee
Malcolm, lecture at the Independent Institute, September 21,
1999,
http://www.independent.org/ For law review articles, gun court
cases, and the 1982 Senate report, see
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/.

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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT -- June 2000 (Part 1)

The Media Campaign Against Gun Ownership

The Million Moms March was not a grassroots uprising of mothers
but a slick media event orchestrated by Bill Clinton's public
relations
experts and led by Donna Dees-Thomases, who worked for
Democrats in Congress, contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign
and is the sister-in-law of Susan Thomases, a top Clinton
adviser.
The contrived nature of the campaign was evident in the cozy
meeting with the President, extravagant television coverage,
multi-page color "ads" disguised as "news" in national
magazines,
and the distribution of color brochures in airports.

The anti-gun moms pretended to model themselves on Mothers
Against Drunk Driving, but those mothers are smart enough to go
after criminally reckless drivers, not against automobiles. The
anti-gun moms either aren't smart enough to see that kids are
killed
by criminals not by guns, or they are just trying to elect Al
Gore. The
march was such phony political theater. The Associated Press
reported that Bill Clinton had "tears in his eyes" when he
talked to
the Marching Moms (who, of course, didn't number anywhere near a
million).

The march was advertised as growing out of mothers' outrage at
the
large number of children who are killed by guns. But Professor
John
Lott Jr., senior research scholar at the Yale University Law
School
and author of More Guns, Less Crime, has exposed the blatant
lies
in the statistics bandied about by the President and the press,
such
as the oft-repeated lie that 12 children a day die from guns.
Most of
the "children" in the statistics on kids killed by gunfire are
17-, 18-
and 19-year-olds killed in gang or drug wars in high-crime urban
areas. It is unrealistic to think that trigger locks or waiting
periods
would have any effect in stopping those homicides.

The Centers for Disease Control could identify only 21 children
under
age 15 dying from accidental handgun deaths in 1996. But 40
children under the age of five drown in water buckets every year
and
another 80 drown in bathtubs. Are we going to demand that water
buckets and bathtubs be locked up and fitted with safety
catches?
Many more children are killed or injured every year from cars,
drowning, fires, and even toys than from guns. The risk of a
child
drowning in a swimming pool is 100 times greater than the risk
of
dying from a firearm-related accident.

The Columbine killers violated at least 17 state and federal
gun-control laws among the 20,000 gun-control laws on the books
today. Does anyone think that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
would
not have known how to unlock their guns, or that a waiting
period
would have made a difference in the murders they planned months
in
advance? None of the proposals for trigger locks, waiting
periods or
gun-show restrictions would have stopped Harris and Klebold.

The only policy that effectively reduces public shootings is
right-to-carry laws. Allowing citizens to carry concealed
handguns
reduces violent crime. In the 31 states that have passed
right-to-carry
laws since the mid-1980s, the number of multiple-victim public
shootings and other violent crimes has dropped dramatically.
Murders fell by 7.65%, rapes by 5.2%, aggravated assaults by 7%,
and robberies by 3%. On the average, murder rates in states
without
concealed-carry laws are 127% higher than in states having the
broadest carry laws.

The United States has a population of 270,000,000, and 600,000
to
750,000 people are in law enforcement. It is not believable that
each
law enforcement officer can protect 360 to 450 people from
violent
criminals or answer every 911 call before the criminal fires a
gun.

The sheer number of guns and gun owners in America makes gun
control far more unrealistic than Prohibition. At least 80
million
Americans own about 250 million guns, and about 99% of
gun-owners obviously handle their guns responsibly or we would
have
many more accidents.

The marching moms say they want handguns registered and
handgun owners licensed similarly to what is required for
automobiles. But registering cars doesn't make kids any safer,
and
many other methods are obviously better at improving safety,
such
as safety instruction itself.

Using automobiles as an analogy doesn't help the marching moms'
argument, anyway, because it invites us to put gun safety
courses in
schools like driver's ed.

It's time for Americans to separate truth from propaganda in
news
coverage about guns. Under the principle that "if it bleeds it
leads,"
television redundantly reports on guns used to kill, but censors
out
the many incidents of successful defensive use of guns to disarm
criminals and protect law-abiding citizens from becoming
victims.

Guns are used to save lives almost five times as often as to
commit
crimes. Guns are used 430,000 times a year to commit crimes, but
2,000,000 to 2,500,000 times a year in self-defense to prevent
deaths, rapes, assaults and other serious injuries. In 98% of
the
situations, the victim just brandished a gun, and in only 2% of
the
cases was the gun actually fired, usually just as a warning. But
when
was the last time you saw a news story about someone
successfully
using a gun in self-defense?

Gun control advocates refuse to make a risk-benefit analysis,
balancing the good guns do against the harm. Instead, they use
emotion and lies to plead their cause.

All scientific studies show that restrictive gun laws are more
dangerous than guns. Crime is reduced by putting guns in the
hands
of law-abiding citizens. Guns are the safest and most effective
means
of resisting violent criminal attack. Areas that increase gun
ownership
have lower crime rates than other areas. Even those who do not
own
a gun are safer because the criminal fears that his next victim
might
have the power to defend himself.

By definition, laws will be obeyed only by the law abiding. If
we
disarm those likely to obey the law, gun restrictions will
encourage
crime rather than prevent it. As Professor Lott warns: "Despite
good
intentions, gun-control advocates are going to end up risking
more
lives than they're going to save."


The Lies Behind Gun Control

"We need more gun regulations." False. There is no academic
evidence that gun regulations prevent crime and plenty of
evidence
that they encourage crime. It stands to reason that, if we
disarm
those likely to obey the gun laws, we make crime more
attractive,
profitable and likely for those who do not obey the law.
Washington,
D.C. has the strictest gun control laws in the country and the
highest
murder rate, 69 per 100,000, while other major cities with more
gun
freedom have only a fraction of that rate. 200 scholars from
major
universities (Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA) released an
open letter to Congress on June 16, 1999 stating that proposed
new
gun laws are ill-advised: "With the 20,000 gun laws already on
the
books, we advise Congress, before enacting yet more new laws, to
investigate whether many of the existing laws may have
contributed
to the problems we currently face."

"The United States has a higher murder rate than other countries
because Americans own so many guns." False. Switzerland and
Israel have more gun ownership than the United States and their
murder rate is far less. Switzerland has more guns per person
than
any country in the world, yet is one of the safest places to be.
All
males age 20 to 42 are required to keep fully automatic rifles
or
pistols at home. It's a common sight to see Israelis carrying
sidearms. On the other hand, Brazil and Russia have complete gun
control, and their murder rate is five times that of the United
States.

"Guns in the home are so dangerous because most murders are
acquaintance murders, that is, someone you know gets angry and
picks up an available gun." False. The vast majority of
"acquaintances" who kill involve drug dealers, gangs,
prostitutes, cab
drivers, barroom brawlers, etc., and 90% of murderers have
criminal
records.

"The easy availability of guns in the home contributes to crimes
of
passion and domestic violence." False. Denying guns denies a
woman the ability to defend herself against an abusive man. Guns
equalize the means of physical terror between men and women.

"Passive resistance is the safest response to an attacker."
False. It
depends on the means you have to resist. If a woman has only her
fists to defend against a rapist, she's not likely to be
successful with
active resistance. But if the woman has a gun, active resistance
can
mean the difference between rape and safety.

The "increase in rampage killings" shows we need gun control.
False
again. Professor Lott, who did a couple of thousand hours of
research
on this issue, found that there has been no upward national
trend in
such killings since the mid-1970s.

"We need safe storage laws." False. States that passed "safe
storage" laws have high crime rates, especially higher rates of
rape
and aggravated assault against women.

"We need waiting periods and background checks to reduce crime
and youth violence." False. No academic study has shown that
crime
is reduced by waiting periods or background checks.

Clinton brags that we are safer because "the Brady law has kept
500,000 criminals from buying handguns." False. The only
academic
research done on the Brady law showed that the Brady waiting
period
has had no significant impact on murder or robbery rates and is
associated with a small increase in rape and aggravated-assault
rates, perhaps due to removing victims' ability to defend
themselves.

"Guns create a terrible danger of accidental deaths." False.
Rep.
James Traficant (D-OH) told the House: "Something does not add
up,
the number of accidental deaths involving guns average 1,500 per
year; and the number of accidental deaths caused by doctors,
surgeons, and hospitals average 120,000 a year. That means ...
[it
is] 80 times more possible of being killed accidentally by a
doctor
than a gun." (April 4, 2000)

"We should register guns and license gun owners just like
automobiles, and that won't lead to confiscation because we
haven't
confiscated cars." That's a false analogy. There are 130 million
automobiles in the United States weighing about a ton each and
confiscation would be impossible. We've seen gun confiscation
and
its results in many other countries. The analogy to automobiles
also
fails because cars are not used in self-defense to protect
lives.

"The gun show loophole most be closed." False. There is no gun
show loophole. Anyone who is engaged in the business of selling
firearms, whether at a gun show or a fixed retail store, must
fill out a
government registration form on every buyer and get FBI
permission
through the National Instant Check System for every sale. There
is
no evidence that gun shows are an important source of criminals'
guns. A 1997 National Institute of Justice study in December
1997
reported that only 2% of felons acquired their guns at gun shows
and
those included purchases from licensed dealers who conducted
background checks.

"Assault weapons should be banned." False. Civilian assault
weapons are not machine guns. They are just ordinary guns that
have a pseudo-military appearance. They do not fire faster, the
bullets are not especially powerful, and they are slower than
bullets
from hunting rifles. Semi-automatic guns do not "spray" bullets
and
are not machine guns, they require a separate pull of the
trigger for
each shot to be fired just like a revolver. (Fully-automatic
military
assault rifles are not part of the current gun debate.)

"Handguns must be banned." False. The law abiding, by
definition,
will abide by the law; law violators will not. Handguns will
always be
available at some price; demand will create its own supply.

"We must get rid of the Saturday Night Special." False. This is
a
small, low-caliber, short-barreled, not-too-expensive gun. Not
only
does this type of gun have a legitimate sports and recreational
use, it
is the best defensive weapon for poor, inner-city residents who
are
the most likely potential victims of crime. Why deny them
protection?

"The American Society of Pediatrics says that handguns should be
banned." But the pediatricians' statement is based on the usual
bogus statistics, not on any scientific study. If the
pediatricians did a
scientific study, they might reach the same conclusion that
Professor Lott did, namely, that more guns in the hands of
law-abiding people result in less crime.

We are told that "we need zero tolerance in the schools about
guns."
But schools were a lot safer prior to the 1970s, when guns in
schools
were very common. Professor Lott has pointed out that, "until
1969,
virtually every public high school in New York City had a
shooting
club. High school students carried their guns to school on the
subways in the morning . . . and regularly competed in city-wide
shooting contests." When guns were so easily accessible, even
inside schools, why didn't we have the problems that we have
today?
The reason can't be that kids take guns to school.

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From:
David Lindstedt <73422.1726@compuserve.com> Save Address - Block Sender
To:
"Richard Gaines" <gunnyg@hotmail.com> Save Address
Subject:
Fwd: Latest Clinton/ATF attack on veterans
Date:
Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:20:30 -0400


Gunny; you got my first of 3 seperate sendings of the message.
The more I
did, the more pissed
I became. Thought you'd enjoy my final copy.

Semper fi;
Dave

Wen you've gottem by the balls their hearts and minds will
follow!

======================


SEE THAT THIS GETS SENT TO EVERY VETERAN & GUNOWNER,
YOU KNOW OR CAN THINK OF!

As a former member of 1960 & 61 MCB Camp LeJeune rifle team,
many of my
former team mates, went on to be snipers & sniper instructors
for the
1st & 3rd Marine Divisions, in Viet Nam. Other were just
"grunts".
One of those team mates, of both the Base team and our 2nd FSR
Regimental
team was a SSgt Andrew M. Sherman.

"Sherm" later was promoted to 2nd Lt and sent to Viet Nam.
"Sherm"
like a lot of other good men, lost his life, in Viet Nam, on
8 Aug 1966 in Quang Tri. His platoon was evacuating a recon
team, when
they were surrounded and out numbered 5 to one. "Sherm" was
awarded the
Navy Cross (our nations 2nd highest award) for extraodinary
heroism.

Another "shooter" was SSgt Billy Howard. On 21 March 1966 Gunney
Sgt Billy
Howard lost his life during operation "TEXAS" in Quang Ngai.
Billy Howard
was also awarded the Navy Cross, for extraordinary heroism.

This outrage, should be read by anyone who has ever worn the
uniform of
any of this nation's branches of service. It should be posted
in every
VFW, American Legion Hall and Marine Corps League.

PLEASE...PLEASE pass this on.

Semper fi;
Dave (former Sgt USMC 1953-65, MSG USAR (retired) 1976-96)

PS: This comes from a guy, who on 12 December 1969, burned the
American
flag and led a COMMUNIST ORGANIZED ANTI- AMERICAN protest in
Oslo.
And to think our GUTLESS Senators, would not remove this traitor
from
office. One only has to look at his conduct in office, to see,
who is the
one with THE MENTAL PROBLEM! Only pray, Sherm & Billy Howard
are there to
greet him when he reaches the "pearly gates". He deserves a
military
escort to the GATES OF HELL!

Excuse me if I get a litte "upset". Remember this on the 4th!

===========

June 21 Neal Knox Report -- By a stroke of the
bureaucratic pen,
the Veterans Administration and BATF have disarmed more than
90,000 veterans who have at some point been administratively
declared "mentally incompetent" -- either for hospitalization or
pension reasons.

Information that they are "mental incompetents" has been
transmitted to the FBI for use in NICS firearms background
checks.
Anyone on the list who attempts to purchase a gun will be
denied,
and is subject to criminal prosecution.

The Gun Control Act's list of prohibited owners and buyers
includes
"adjudicated" mental incompetents, intended to be restricted to
persons
adjudicated by a court of law -- to prevent abuse or loss of gun
rights
through voluntary commitment.

According to a June 2 letter from Robert J. Epley, Director,
Compensation
and Pension Service of the Veterans' Administration, "ATF
incorporated
the VA definition of incompetent 'because of injury or disease
lack the
mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs.'"

That is outrageous. An administrative determination does
not comport
with the law and can, and probably has, resulted in abuse. Any
of those
veterans who possesses a gun is subject to Federal prosecution,
as is any
who attempt to buy a hunting shotgun.

If you're a member of a veterans' organization, give them a
copy of
Epley's
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WANT YOUR GUN RIGHTS BACK? READ THIS
Date:
Sat, 24 Jun 2000 00:45:02 -0400


WANT YOUR GUN RIGHTS BACK? READ THIS

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We believe it will be worth your time to read all of this
message.

THE COMPLAINT

For decades gun owners complained that we were losing the
Second Amendment war because our point of view and our
arguments were never heard in the newspapers, on the
radio, or on television. They complained that gun owners and
gun rights organizations always "preached to the choir", and
that their message never got out to the public.

THE RESPONSE -- FINALLY

But now our message IS getting out to the public.
AGGRESSIVELY. You've probably heard of us by now:
Citizens Of America, a non-profit organization that is running
a NATIONAL PRO-GUN media campaign. That's ALL COA
does: no lobbying, no PAC funds, nothing but producing
these ads and getting them out to the GENERAL PUBLIC.

And until now, you never heard ANYTHING like our hard-
hitting, emotion-directed radio and print ads in the mass
communications media. If you want to HEAR the radio ads,
continue reading and then come back and click here:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org/radio.htm

If you want to SEE the print ads, click here:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org/print.htm

NOT EVEN A YEAR OLD

COA is only nine months old, but already the radio ads have
run in 42 states on over 270 radio stations. At any given
moment, thanks to people like you and patriots in the
broadcast industry, they are running RIGHT NOW
somewhere in the country, on the radio and on cable
television. Thanks to patriots in the publishing industry, the
print ads have been distributed in the tens of thousands.

COA is funded by people like YOU. COA has no income-
producing fund to draw on, no memberships that we
constantly renew, no wealthy private or corporate backers
(yet), no $100-million plus NRA-size budget (yet). COA will
exist only as long as citizens like you donate to the
campaign. We hope to win this war and put ourselves out of
business as soon as possible. But in any case, we will not
exist one day longer than we can pay to exist, and right now
we need funds to continue.

LET COA FIGHT FOR YOU

Remember: only COA focuses on getting the gun rights
message to the GENERAL PUBLIC. And our messages aim
at their guts and hearts.

You can help us. For the next year, devote 33 cents a day to
continue this one-of-a-kind national campaign. That's ten
dollars a month. $120 for the year. If you think we've doing a
good job, then give us 33 cents a day next year. If you've
already donated something this year, please consider
bringing the total up to $120.

WE ACT NOW OR SUFFER LATER

Does $120 a year seem like a lot? Three or four years from
now, when the news media, the federal government and
state governments have inundated the public with enough
unanswered lies to turn them against you, enough
unanswered propaganda to convince them to vote for more
bans on guns and the freedom to own and shoot guns, you'll
wish you had spent twenty times that amount.

If you simply cannot afford $120, then donate what you can.
(We do offer incentives: like a free Kydex holster from
Springbok, Inc. if you donate at least $75. Come back and
read this when you finish the rest of this message:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org/programs.htm )

WE USED TO HATE...

...to ask for money. It's not enjoyable. But that changed when
we saw how much irritation these ads are causing our
enemies. And when we get emails and letters from people
who USED to be anti-gun, but changed their minds when
they became aware of the issues that COA ads bring up.
Now we ask for money because we absolutely believe we
can make a difference.

OUR CURRENT SITUATION

Over the last nine months we've SPENT your past donations-
-as efficiently as possible—keeping this ad campaign going.
We work out of donated office space, have a minimal staff,
and use volunteers or subcontractors for everything else.
These ultra-efficient methods have worked so far, and we
intend to continue this way.

But because our donor base is still in its infancy, with many
gun owners and gun-related businesses still unaware of what
we're doing, and because this is a CONTINUING campaign,
we're nearly out of funds and are in danger of having to
cease operations. So if you want to help, NOW is the time.
Please -- DO NOT count on someone else to donate for you.

You can donate with a credit card by scrolling to the bottom
of our homepage at:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org

Or send a check to Citizens Of America, 2118 Wilshire Blvd.
#447, Santa Monica, CA 90403.

STILL UNDECIDED?

No, COA isn't the ONLY answer to winning this war. GOA,
JPFO, KeepAndBearArms.com, 2AnewsTeam and others are
performing valuable functions. But COA alone devotes all its
resources on an essential but almost totally neglected task:
spreading the pro-gun message to the GENERAL PUBLIC,
not just to gun owners, gun rights organization members, or
those who purposely seek out such information.

If you question the value of running these ads, please read
this:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org/whatgood.htm

Read A WorldNet Daily article about COA at:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty_com
/19991013_xcjod_assault_ad.shtml
(if URL is "broken" cut and paste into browser)

Read basic facts about COA at:
http://www.citizensofamerica.org/faq.htm

WE ARE ENGAGED IN A HISTORIC STRUGGLE FOR OUR
RIGHTS, OUR CONSTITUTION, AND OUR NATION. COA
URGES YOU TO DO YOUR PART IN THIS FIGHT.

THANK YOU--and please FORWARD this email to all
interested individuals and lists.

The Board of Directors, Citizens Of America:

Brian Puckett Bio:
http://www.guntruths.com/Puckett/brian_puckett.htm

Steven Silver Bio:
http://www.guntruths.com/Silver/steve_silver.htm

David Codrea Bio:
http://www.guntruths.com/Codrea/david_codrea.htm

Jim Houck, COA Creative Director, co-founder
Bio: http://www.citizensofamerica.org/faq.htm

* Citizens Of America *

COA is running a NATIONAL PRO-GUN
media campaign. Learn more at
http://www.citizensofamerica.org

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