Brady Center to prevent Gun Violence

November 7th 2005

Actor Michael Douglas, real estate executive Jack Rudin, anti, Law & Order’s Richard Belzer and Amy Carlson, and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy joined NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly as he displayed a “Rambo-style” ammo-belt-filled with the six-inch-long bullets of a .50 cal rifle, that is legal to purchase in New York-at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s benefit reception “Stand Up For A Safe America”.
At “Stand Up For A Safe America”-which benefits the initiatives of the Brady Center and its fight to prevent gun violence-Douglas, Kelly and Rudin were honored for their support of the effort to make America safer from gun violence. Law & Order: SVU’s Richard Belzer served as the Master of Ceremonies and Law & Order: Trial by Jury’s Amy Carlson and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy presented the awards.
Over 200 people came to this wonderful benefit,Mrs Sarah Brady Chairwoman of The Brady Centre and the Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence Could Not Attend but sent the following message. More than 20 years have passed since John Hinckley,jr.fired the shots that drastically changed my family’s life .In an attempt to kill president Reagan,that desperate young man seriously injured my husband, presidential press secretary James Brady.The Fear pain and anguish of those few seconds is still with us today.But Gun violence in America isn’t a personal tragedy ;it’s a national one.Each and every day we lose more than 79 Americans to gunfire.
That’s why I serve as the chair of the Brady Centre and the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence with its national network of Million Mom March chapter activists.We work nationally and locally to implementgun violence prevention programs with local community organizations,politicians and represent victims of gun violence in court.I am proud of the work we have already accomplished,but there is much more that needs to be done.Your presence here tonite allows us to continue the fight.Thank you for your Support of this life saving work.
Michael Douglas Went on about a law in Florida which took effect and was signed into law by Governor Jed Bush,he said not too many people know about the Florida’s Shoot First Law.
“A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of forcible felony.
The Brady center and Staff members,released the following statement,we intend to place travel advertisements to warn these tourists and potential tourists,that this risk exists.The plan is for advertisements in Key U.S. gateway cities feeding tourists to Florida starting with Chicago,Detroit,and Boston,and in selected overseas markets beginning with the united kingdom.
For more information about the Brady Center to prevent Gun Violence,log onto there website at www.bradycenter.org for the Florida Shoot first Law and learn more about this law log onto there website @ www.shootfirstlaw.org we like to thank Mr Gladwyn Lopez, from the Rubenstein Communications Inc, for his kind invitation.

 

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