Famous Last Words QUESTION: "Joe, apropos the subject of the President's press briefing yesterday, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles, David Horowitz writes, 'Calling for a law to require parents who stash their kids in crack houses to put trigger locks on the stolen guns lying around is a sick joke. An even sicker joke would be to expect liberal Democrats or the liberal press to acknowledge this obvious fact. Democrats' use of the interracial killing of a six-year-old to attack lawful gun owners and beat up on the National Rifle Association is obscene.' Your Comment?"
MR. LOCKHART: " I think 85% of people in this country support requiring manufacturers to have a trigger lock on a gun, and I think the gun lobby and those who speak for them are obscene in the arguments they make."
-Joe Lockhart
3/8 White House Press Briefing--MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens caught this indignant outburst from Rivera as uttered on the February 29 Rivera Live on CNBC:
"We were suggesting today that maybe the NRA, the National Rifle Association, should modify its well known slogan to read, 'Guns don't kill people, first graders kill people.' Now, I'm the father of a first grader, so this story really shocked me to my very core. The news this morning from a school near Flint, Michigan that a little girl was fatally shot by her classmate in the first grade..."
"Anyone who hides behind the 2nd Amendment, you know, the right to keep and bear arms, should be ashamed of themselves tonight. 250 million guns in this country. This is sickening. When does it stop? When do they let laws get passed like safe storage of your own damn guns? It just makes me sick."
Some Startling Statistics...
- Number of physicians in the U.S. 700,000
- Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year 120,000
- Accidental deaths per physician 0.171
- Number of gun owners in the U.S. 80,000,000
- Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) 1,500
- Accidental deaths per gun owner 0.0000188
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the seventeenth of November, 1999
TED TURNER: 'I AM A SOCIALIST AT HEART'
The nation's leading private land owner and top media power player declared on Wednesday that he is really a socialist!
CABLE NEWS NETWORK founder Ted Turner, one of the world's richest men, told a gathering in Shanghai that he is "a socialist at heart" who is concerned that "Internet guys have gotten so rich so fast."
Addressing TIME WARNER's Global Forum, Turner blasted ORACLE CORP's chairman Larry Ellison for his yachts.
"I'd rather use money for the benefit of mankind rather than spend it selfishly," Turner, owner of yachts, told the gathering of over 500 Chinese and international entrepreneurs.
At a gala opening on Monday night, Gerald Levin, TIME WARNER chairman, introduced Chinese President Jiang Zemin, describing him as "my good friend."
Levin ignored the fact that Chinese authorities blocked newsstand sales of a special China edition of TIME magazine this week because it included essays by the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, and by political exiles Wei Jingsheng and Fang Lizhi.
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