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...football pants for equally tight leather chaps, this time Van Der Beek serves under one legendary cowboy, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) and must woo Joey Potter and simultaneously battle an army of renegade outlaws, namely John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) and Pacey Witter. The hype is good for this gun toting, rough riding drama set in Texas, 1875, the one setback being it threatens to diminish the number of syllables Dawson can intelligently use in a sentence to just under one. Seriously, in their quest for freedom, the Texas Rangers put it all on the line to protect their homeland...
...Million mothers may not be disappointed by lackadaisical legislators. The moms have specific goals--child-proofing hand-guns, more comprehensive background checks at gun shows, and strictly enforcing existing gun laws. These are measures long advocated by the gun-control lobby, but with the force of mothers behind them, Congress may finally find the strength to free itself from the moneyed-grasp...
...moms have another advantage--they represent a significant portion of the nationwide population, the portion that believes that stronger gun legislation is necessary. In a Washington Post-ABC News national survey released earlier this week two-thirds of respondents said gun laws should be strengthened. One in four said that they had been threatened by a gun...
...moms--even when they have guns themselves--know that requiring manufacturers to put gun locks on those guns and keep them out of the hands of convicted felons is not the drastic curtailing of second amendment rights that the Second Amendment Sisters (a small group of women who launched a minor counter protest on Sunday) and the NRA would like us to believe. The lives "saved" by guns every year--like the 1,500 murders John R. Lott estimates were prevented by states that allow concealed weapons to be carried in 1992--don't measure...
...moms are and will be a powerful force to promote stronger gun control, both strategically and emotionally. Lawmakers are likely and rightly influenced by their pathos and their logic. If they are not, the moms should try the other tried-and-true method of gaining political change. When marching doesn't get results, even when there's a million, civil disobedience is the next step. The moms should remember mothers of the past--moms like Rosa Parks and the suffragettes--who were willing to do much more than march for their cause...