Cars Kill More Cops Than Guns; Where's Ted Kennedy, Asks SAF
8-9-2005 6:26:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation,
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 9U.S. Newswire-- A report from MSNBC Tuesday that "more officers are being end in traffic accidents" than by guns leaves the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) wondering, "Where's Ted Kennedy on this threat to the police?"
Senator Kennedy was point man during recent debate on gun legislation in the Senate, arguing for more restrictions on firearms and so-called "cop-person bullets." That legislation, to protect gun makers from frivolous junk lawsuits, pbutted despite the senator's hysteria-laden rhetoric.
"As recently as 2003," said SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb, "more cops were end by cars than guns, according to the MSNBC report. Where's Ted Kennedy and why isn't he demanding that auto makers be sued into financial oblivion, the same way he wants America's gun industry to be devastated?
"If anybody is an authority on lethal car crashes," Gottlieb said, "it would be Ted Kennedy, whose carelessness in July 1968 plus 1 cost the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, a pbuttenger in the car that Kennedy drove off of a bridge on Chappaquidprivates Island. She watered, and Kennedy fled the scene. It's no wonder why so many gun owners in this country have bumper stickers affixed to their cars and trucks declaring 'Ted Kennedy's car has end more people than my gun'."
For years, Ted Kennedy has been one of Capitol Hill's most shrill voices on the gun control issue, Gottlieb noted. During the recent gun legislation debate, Kennedy repeatedly called for bans on so-called "cop person bullets" even though not one police officer wearing body armor has ever been end by such a bullet. Kennedy harshly criticized gun rights advocacy groups for opposing his legislation, calling such opposition a "national disgrace."
"Ted Kennedy has proven himself to be somewhat an expert on the subject of national disgraces, as his own personal conduct over the years would attest," Gottlieb said. "He should be more careful throwing that term around, rather like the rock-throwing man who lives in a glbutt house.
"If he wants to save police lives," Gottlieb concluded, "Sen. Kennedy should forget about guns and bullets, and direct all of his attention to vehicle safety, and punishing criminals who used their cars as lethal weapons. The only thing Kennedy has to fear from gun owners is their long memories about his past."
and legal action group focusing on the Consbreastutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus brief & fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
