> -----Original Message-----
> From: CPBalto at aol.com [mailto:CPBalto at aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:13 PM
> To: CPBalto at aol.com
> Subject: Thanks, NRA!
>
>
> A Letter From Michael Moore
>
> Yes, It was a Bushmaster!
>
>
> October 25, 2002
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Yesterday, Larry Bennett, a 16-year old, was shot in the
> head after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. You
> probably didn't hear about it because, well, how could he be
> dead if he wasn't shot by The Sniper?
>
> Yesterday, an unidentified woman was shot to death in
> her car in Fenton, MI. You probably didn't hear about it
> because she had the misfortune of not being shot by The Sniper.
>
> Two nights ago, Charles D. Bennett, 48, an apartment
> security guard, was shot to death after confronting two
> teenagers in his parking lot in Memphis, TN. You probably
> didn't hear about it because the sniper was too busy sleeping
> in his car that night, and thus, poor Charles was not shot by
> The Sniper.
>
> Yes, The Sniper has apparently been caught, so we can
> go back now to
> NOT reporting the DOZENS of gun deaths that occur every day,
> the ones that just aren't newsworthy because they happen in
> all those old boring ways
> -- unlike the ways of The Sniper, who was interesting and
> creative and exciting and scary! He played so much better on
> the news.
>
> Of course, had Congress not caved in to the NRA we would
> have known after the first HOUR of the first day of the
> killings three weeks ago that those bullets were coming out
> of a rifle that belonged to John Williams/Mohammad. How would
> we know this? It's right there in the state records in New
> Jersey: this gun was purchased this past July, under the name
> of John Mohammad!
>
> Many more people died needlessly in the days and weeks
> after that first hour of the shootings, and every one of
> their deaths could have probably been prevented had we had a
> national ballistics fingerprinting data base.
>
> Thank you, Mr. Heston for this unnecessary carnage.
> Thank you, Mr. Bush, for supporting Mr. Heston and his
> group's agenda -- which protects only the criminals.
>
> And thank you, Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., for providing
> the gun used to shoot the 13 people in the DC area.
> Bushmaster's president, Richard E. Dyke, was the Maine
> finance chairman of George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential
> campaign. According to Business Week, Dyke had to step down
> as Bush's finance chair "after reporters began quizzing him
> about his business dealings. Bushmaster Firearms Inc., is
> notorious for using loopholes to sidestep a 1994 federal ban
> on assault rifles." Bush and Bushmaster. Too tragically perfect.
>
>
> If everyone reading this letter (and you now number in
> the millions) would share this fact with just one person who
> is thinking of skipping going to the polls on Nov. 5th, I
> believe that on Nov. 6th, Mr. Bush will have neither the
> Senate nor the House doing his or Heston's bidding. Americans
> don't like people who assist serial killers in being able to
> ratchet up their kills because The Sniper knows that his
> bullets are prohibited by law from being traced to his gun.
>
> That, in a nutshell, is what the NRA is all about -- and
> I implore all responsible gun owners and hunters to join with
> me in putting an end to the NRA agenda once and for all.
> Don't give Bush his majority on November 5th. He's already
> seen to it that his cronies in big business have wiped out
> your 401 (K), and they are doing their best to see that you
> are left with no pension at all. That alone should be reason
> enough to NOT pull a single lever for a Republican on Nov.
> 5th. Send a message. Do something brave.
>
> Yours,
>
> Michael Moore
> mike at michaelmoore.com
> www.michaelmoore.com
>