People For the American Way - Gun Haters

[Mn01r6]

One of the benefits of being in a practical joke war with your coworkers...they sign you up for email newsletters from organizations they know you hate. My coworkers know me pretty well - one signed me up for "People For the American Way" which somehow means "People who hate guns." - it is amazing the amount of misleading information they will publish to people to try and get their support:

Mn01r6,
In addition to raising the issue of underlying, systemic biases in our criminal justice system, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman have shone a bright spotlight on a law that may have played a significant role in the “not guilty” verdict and paved the way for this senseless tragedy in the first place: the infamous “Stand Your Ground” law.
Please click here to tell state lawmakers in every state to REPEAL so-called Stand Your Ground laws, a.k.a. “Shoot First” laws!
At least 22 states have laws similar to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, and more are considering passing them. If you include, more broadly, “Castle Doctrine” laws, which also encouraged armed civilians to “shoot first,” the list gets much longer.
Stand Your Ground, conceal and carry, “Castle Doctrine” laws … these are policies which promote gun ownership -- and use -- and make all of us less safe. They are dream laws of the NRA and heavily promoted by right-wing front groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC has had a particularly front-and-center role in pushing Stand Your Ground laws.
Jury instructions in the Zimmerman trial emphasized that Zimmerman had “no duty to retreat” because of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. That same law, along with other laws like “conceal and carry,” encourages vigilantism and helped to create the climate in which an overzealous armed neighborhood watchman felt free to stalk and confront Trayvon Martin for no other reason than his appearance. The Stand Your Ground law was not only instrumental in the ultimate “not guilty” verdict once the case got to trial, it seriously hampered the initial investigation and almost prevented the prosecution of Zimmerman altogether.
Our justice system needs to be about justice.Please Stand YOUR Ground for justice now by adding your name to our petition telling lawmakers to repeal dangerous Stand Your Ground laws.
Stand Your Ground laws make us all less safe. They encourage a reckless cowboy mentality and are a barrier to accountability -- and to justice for victims like Trayvon Martin and his family.
Please speak out now by taking action and then help spread the word.
Thank you for you activism.
-- Diallo Brooks, Director of Outreach and Partner Engagement

[Back In Black]

These people are psychotic.

[Stylin750]

why call themselves "American way?". Its obviosly not the american way of life or doing anything....They need to change their name to the "communist genocidal way", just my thoughts. A bunch of raving lunatics if you ask me

[bensdad]

Norman Lear's lovechild. Been around awhile.

[Li'l Beaver]

Should we really expect anything less from a group of Liberal zealots? One must consider the intelligence of the source. I simply read them chuckle and hit the delete button, sometimes I do not even read them before hitting the delete button!