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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:40 PM
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I just contributed $33 to The Brady Campaign To End Gun Violence. They MATCHED my donation. NOW...
is the time for those of us who refuse to accept the mindless hatred and carnage of the NRA and the "guns at all costs" folks.

I gave. In memorial to the kids slaughtered at VATech. May those beautiful people rest in peace. I will not stay silent about this. I WILL work for change.

NO MORE DEAD CHILDREN at the hands of the NRA.

Enough is enough.

Please, if you are as sickened by this as I am....please give.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/donate/
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 10:57 PM
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1. Thanks for reminding me, I just gave $66 to the Second Amendment Foundation. n/t
Edited on Thu Apr-19-07 11:00 PM by jody


Second Amendment Foundation
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:03 PM
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Solo_in_MD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:15 PM
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3. I made mine an even $100
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:37 AM
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13. Prove it.
Really. Prove it.
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Solo_in_MD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 07:56 AM
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32. Sure, how?
I wrote a check and sent it in one of the many donation request envelopes they send.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:16 PM
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5. You have my sympathies.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:56 PM
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7. And you have my sympathies. n/t
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:30 AM
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:36 AM
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:39 AM
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14. Why ask him to provide that which you haven't given either?
Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 12:40 AM by piedmont
How the heck would he prove it anyway?

edit: clarified the title
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:45 AM
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17. Oh...but you are wrong. Go out to the Brady link I provided and you can view my contribution.
Listed under my screename here at DU...Beausoir.

I even dedicated my donation and signed the guestbook.

I gave REAL money.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:48 AM
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19. Ok. I meant that you hadn't given proof.
Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 12:48 AM by piedmont
and now you have.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:50 AM
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21. Understood and no worries.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 06:02 AM
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29. Good bye. n/t
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 01:10 AM
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26. Prove it.
I call bullshit.
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adadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:15 PM
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4. Thanks for the reminder
Beausoir, because of your post I have just donated $200 to the Brady Campaign "In memory of all the innocents viciously murdered at Virginia Tech by a man who should never, ever had access to a gun"

This madness and easy access must stop.

I stand with you.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:24 AM
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8. Wow! $200! You are a wonderful and courageous and giving person!
Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 12:39 AM by Beausoir
People like you restore my faith in humanity!
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:17 PM
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6. What a beautiful idea!!
K&R
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:25 AM
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9. It's just one way that we can help prevent another slaughter of children due to gun violence.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:27 AM
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10. If I have any extra money at the end of the month I'm giving to NAMI
http://www.nami.org/
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:41 AM
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15. That is a beautiful sentiment. We need that now more than ever.
Thank you for what you are doing.

Mental illness is all but invisible in U.S. healthcare.

It breaks my heart.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:46 AM
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18. It's a broken system. And I never knew how broken...
until I had experience with it while giving care to a loved one. The stigma, the lack of access to care, the misdiagnosis, the crappy care, etc. etc. It's broken.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:49 AM
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20. Yes. And giving easy access to guns is not the answer.
We have no disagreement.

The state of healthcare for the mentally ill in this country is draconian.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:57 AM
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24. I disagree on how to keep the guns out of the wrong hands, but...
I won't mess up your thread with that discussion. Good night.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 06:28 AM
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31. Thank-you
:hug:
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:42 AM
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16. K&R
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:53 AM
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22. Send them all the ¢¢¢¢ you can.
The Millon Mom March couldn't maintain a rent free workplace (in San Fran of all places), and they got evicted.


Million Mom Eviction
The Million Mom March will have to leave the rent-free office space it's been using at San Francisco General Hospital after a pro-gun activist revealed "what he said were unapproved taxpayer subsidies--meaning free rent--going toward the ailing gun-control organization," the San Francisco Examiner reports. The Associated Press reports, meanwhile, that the number of gun-related deaths in America declined 26% between 1993 and 1998, according to a Centers for Disease Control study.


http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=90000428

Meanwhile... The NRA has this nice little cozy sublet in Fairfax, VA...



Looks like I'll have to send them another check to help pay for the water cooler bills.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:57 AM
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25. And you go right ahead and finance that mansion. Spend ALL your money on those folks.
Please. Just keep sending ALL your money to those rich people. See how that will work for ya.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 01:15 AM
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27. "ALL your money to those rich people"
Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 01:18 AM by D__S
Hmmm, didn't Cho express similar grievances?

I guess you're in good company.

I'm only a shit-bum blue collar, union member, public safety worker, so I spend my pay check judiciously.

And it has worked for me... I have the NRA on my side and I still have some mediocre RKBA.

What do you have to show for your contributions?

If not for the NRA, I'd probably have to relie on a kitchen fork for self-defense if left up to you people.

So yeah... I'll send them a few more $$$$$.

It'll mean cutting into my gun and ammo budget, but as long as it's for a worthwhile cause, I don't mind.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 12:55 AM
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23. We, at DU, spend many dollars sending roses to people. We should be able to raise a few bucks for
this worthy cause.

Especially now.
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beevul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 01:27 AM
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28. Is this the same outfit...
that usually ends up giving some of the best grades to some the most violence saturated places in the nation on thier "report cards"?


I think I'll pass. I too will be sending 100 check to SAF.
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Man_in_the_Moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 06:15 AM
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30. Youre bragging about contributing to a Repuke organization?
sad...
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 01:40 PM
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33. Thanks for that reminder. I need to put my money where my mouth/cursor is.
That's one bookmark I'll be sure to keep.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 01:43 PM
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34. When the Brady Campaign swears off banning legally-owned guns...
...then we can talk. I hope they will one day focus all of their energies on gun violence instead of gun ownership.

I hear you. Seriously. You've got to follow your conscience on this one. But so must I.
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