Actors Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston will be the headliners at the March on Washington for Gun Control tomorrow.
“Calling all citizen activists: mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, teachers, police, mayors, students, universities, artists, and actors: We want Congress to reinstate the assault weapon ban, ban high capacity ammunition magazines and require background checks for all guns. We want Congress to enforce a 28 day waiting period, require mandatory gun safety training before the purchase of a gun, and outlaw bullets that shatter in the body. This is a public safety issue. 30,000 people are killed each year in America from guns. There are 300 million guns in America,” the organizers said in a mission statement.
Other speakers expected at the event — which has just 3,266 confirmed marchers, as of this posting, according to the official March blog — are Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), One Million Moms for Gun Control founder Shannon Watts, a Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence official, and clergy members.
The late-morning march will begin at the Capitol Reflecting Pool and end at the Washington Monument.
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), fired up about a resolution introduced Tuesday by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) that would exempt active-duty military personnel from the District’s gun laws, will also speak.
“The non-binding Gingrey resolution is the tip of the iceberg of pro-gun amendments that will threaten the nation, not to mention the District, which is especially vulnerable to the extremism of the NRA,” Norton said. “However, the slaughter of the 26 elementary school children and adults in Newtown has created new allies that will ensure that the gun lobby, for the first time in a generation, does not get its way.”
Promoting the march today on CNN, Turner said she won’t act in another movie with gun violence. She’s best known for 1980s movies including Romancing the Stone and Body Heat.
“Turner said she won’t act in another movie.”
FTFY.
Perhaps Ms. Turner will return the money she earned and residuals she still earns filming gun violence movies such as V.I. WARSHAWSKI and UNDERCOVER BLUES, the latter a movie where she draws a hideout gun from her baby’s bassinette.
Until such time, she has as much credibility as a Joan Wilder novel on the subject.
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), fired up about a resolution introduced Tuesday by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) that would exempt active-duty military personnel from the District’s gun laws, will also speak.
“The non-binding Gingrey resolution is the tip of the iceberg of pro-gun amendments that will threaten the nation…
Armed active duty military personnel threaten the nation? What planet is the f*ckwit from? How about doing something about the urban street gangs who ARE “a threat to the nation”?
And 40,000 people a year die in car accidents.
Where are the march to ban automobiles???
Ms. Turner was hot back in the 1980′s, but I sure wouldn’t want to stand in freezing cold weather to hear her speak. Why not have a march in Florida, where it will be pleasantly in the 70′s today?
3266 confirmed marchers. I’ve seen more people at a high school football game. The MSM will report “10′s of thousands”…
Well, no reason to see “Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2″ now. Or, more accurately, a reason not to see it.
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Squirrel – anything to divert from talking about the economy and our debt problem.
Gun control is just another wedge issue to divide us as a nation, it is all about 2014.
McConnell should call for an immediate vote on the bill as proposed, put up or shut up.