Debbie Schlussel
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- NOTHING'S MORE AMERICAN than moms and apple pie.
So when gun control-types decided to parade their anti-choice views in a Washington protest, they chose to use moms as the theme and Mother's Day as the setting for their propaganda. That's how the "Million Mom March" (M3) was really born.
This wasn't a spur of the moment idea of Donna Dees-Thomases, the alleged creator of this "event." Contrary to her portrayal, Thomases is no innocent, well-meaning mom. She's a figment of the liberal media, political, and entertainment industries. She's been a publicist for the "CBS Evening News" and is now the flack for David Letterman. She also served as the press secretary to liberal Democrat former U.S. Senator Russell Long.
And-oh, yeah-she's the sister-in-law of Susan Thomases, close friend of Hillary Clinton, and -- like Hillary -- a frequent testifier before Congressional committees looking into Clinton multiple-scandaldom. And, like Hillary, Thomases (who will also attend M3) was also a frequent utterer of the "I do not recall" defense. The Wall Street Journal has written a lot about her in their "Who is---?" series, about assorted Clinton cronies who've covered for Bill and Hill's misdeeds in various investigations. This whole thing is likely the brainchild of Hillary and her ilk.
But enough about them. And on to the next personality of Sunday's M3 event --- Veronica McQueen. You've probably never heard of her, but you will at M3. She's the mother of Kayla Rolland, the 6-year-old killed by one of her classmates at school in Mt. Morris Township, Michigan, in February. I'm sorry her daughter died. But I and the other law-abiding citizens in this country didn't do this to her. Why does she forgive her daughter's murderer, but, yet, has the nerve to try taking our guns away?
And if McQueen really wanted to stop the problem of gun-deaths, she'd skip the march and look closer to home. To the broken families of Mt. Morris Township. Almost none of the proposals McQueen and the M3 support -- including licensing and registration of guns and gun owners, safety locks, one-handgun per month limits, and cooling off periods -- would have saved her daughter.
Her daughter's killer was a socially bereft young boy sent to live in his uncle's crack house by his own mother, Tamarla Owens. Owens is an admitted drug user and neglectful parent who abandoned her two emotionally unstable sons. The father, Dedric Owens, is in jail on unrelated charges and has been there before. The gun used in Rolland's death was stolen and illegal.
Yet, Tamarla, too, has the gall to go to the M3 event. "I really want to go," she said in her blue jumpsuit after last week's court hearing on whether or not she should regain custody of the son she screwed up. "I am a mom and I do believe we should have stricter gun laws." No, she is a mere egg donor, as are many of those intending to be at M3. Many of the other moms may be well-meaning, but they're very ignorant. They're also being used. And they're tragically caught up in the hype, like McQueen.
In the wake of her daughter's death, McQueen, 30, has been given the star treatment. This previously anonymous woman from a dirt-poor hicktown has been to the Big (White) House to meet Bill. She was upset her pictures with him didn't turn out well, but she'll be back. Friday, she'll be on the "Today" show, her second appearance. Sunday, she'll be a featured speaker at M3. And Monday, she'll be featured in New Yorker Magazine. She'll also get to party on the dais with annoying pro-gun control B-list celebs like Rosie O'Donnell, actress Reese Witherspoon, Singer Courtney Love (whose hypocrisy I've previously written about), Susan Sarandon, Roseanne Cash, John McEnroe, and sundry others. It's easy to see why she's taken the side of M3's gun-grabbers in stealing our freedoms and skewering the Second Amendment.
The licensing and registration these "moms" support is akin to that employed
by some of the worst totalitarian despots in world history . . . like Adolph
Hitler (who used the registration rolls to confiscate all weapons,
especially from groups he didn't like--i.e., Jews). These "moms" are on the
same side as Hitler! And most of these women are the same ones who are
always screaming about choice and their "right to choose" on chic issues,
like abortion. But what about my right . . . to choose a gun? Kinda
inconsistent.
The M3 forces are demonizing the NRA as "extremist." But mothers who really want to stop gun violence among kids support the NRA because they know it's the only group that's done something constructive. The NRA's "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program has been recognized by even fierce NRA opponents as being the best way to educate kids to treat guns appropriately and stay away from them. The NRA is spending $1 million on it, this year. After Sundays' march of merriment, those "moms" will disappear, but the NRA and Eddie Eagle will still be around, teaching kids and saving their lives.
The only good point made by M3 is the lack of enforcement of existing gun laws. We already have too many laws on the books, but they're not enforced. Prosecution is prevention.
Trigger locks are not failsafe and lead to a false sense of security. A kid who can find a gun can find the key, as one did in Congressman Jim Traficant's Ohio district, last week. And in the middle of the night--when an attacker enters a Million Mom's home--a triggerlock could equal rape and death, because she's too busy fumbling for the key, when she could be aiming and firing. Registered guns? How will that stop them from being stolen and used in shootings?
And M3's claimed 13 child gun deaths per day are equally precarious. This figure includes "children" up to age 20. The actually number of young children shot by guns per day is really 1.7. Two-thirds of these are homicides, which are mostly drug- and gang-related. More gun control won't stop that. The more important statistic about the number 13 is that every 13 seconds a life is saved in self defense, by a gun. 1.5 to 2.5 million lives are saved every year because people defended themselves with guns, according to scholars, like Yale's John R. Lott, Jr., and Florida State University's Gary Kleck. And all stats show that gun violence at homes and, in general, is on the decline.
Plus, most Americans do not agree with the gun control aims of M3. An April Frank Luntz poll showed that 72% attribute youth violence and school shootings to either a decline in parental quality time or violence in entertainment. Only 11% singled out guns. A whopping 84% said increased parental involvement would have a greater impact on reducing gun violence than more gun control. A Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll from April found that just 6% of Americans think stricter gun laws would prevent future Columbines. Only 37% want new, stricter laws, compared with 59% who favor stricter enforcement of current laws.
Informed moms know that, like the Rolland killing, new gun restrictions won't change a thing. Canada has very strict gun control, but, in April, a five-year-old girl shot a two-year-old boy dead in Quebec. Smart moms also know that being armed prevents crime and could save their children's lives. In April, a mugger was targeting moms with young children by putting a gun to the kids' heads. An armed mom could prevent this. As a petite woman of 5'2", I know that a gun is my ultimate equalizer against a male attacker.
M3 marchers sport T-shirts that proclaim, "We're looking for a few good moms." But good moms will be home celebrating Mother's Day with their families. A few cool moms will participate in the Second Amendment Sisters' Armed Informed Mothers' March. But don't expect the anti-gun media to cover them. The ones you see on TV descending on Washington are just ignorant. Should we listen to them because they watch Rosie O'Donnell on TV and blindly follow her lead?
They don't know the difference between the Brady law and "The Brady Bunch."
Real moms know that safety for their kids-and themselves-means being armed
and female. Guns are #1 in feminine
JWR contributor Debbie Schlussel is a Detroit-based sports and entertainment agent, attorney and commentator. Send your comments to her by clicking here.
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