Looking for a Few Good Moms : How One Mother Rallied a Million Others Against the Gun Lobby

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Summary: Even the title is a lie
Review: "How One Mother Rallied a Million Others Against the Gun Lobby"

I can see that Miss Thomases and her organization are sticking with this lie about how they attracted 750,000 to their first rally on the Mall in Washington, DC. This number has been exposed as a lie long ago, yet Donna and her co-horts persist in repeating it.

(...)>No way they got that many people! They're so much in the minority, that they feel the need to lie about their numbers.

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Summary: An example of the lie....
Review: "I was there and the energy from the 750,000 concerned citizens at the march was incredible. "

You were there, I believe that, but no way was there 750,000.

You want a real Million turnout, the Promise Keepers did one at the same spot and in the pictures you couldn't see grass or walkways from the Capitol all the way to the Washington Monument (estimated crowd: 800,000-1 million). The crowd covered an area 300 yards wide and 1 mile long. The rally was covered live on the CSPAN cable network

Pictures taken of the Million Mom March from the same angles show that the MMM event occupied only about 10 percent of the area that the Promise Keepers did.

The Mall between Jefferson and Madison is 600 feet wide. The distance between 4th and 14th is 4000 feet. That gives a total area of 600x4000, or 2.4 million square feet. Dividing that by the alleged 750,000 MMMers, we find that each person there would have had a personal space of 3.2 square feet.

This is impossible.

The average human being is roughly two feet wide, and 1.5 feet from front to back, or about 3 square feet of horizontal cross section. This means that in order to cram 750,000 people into the National Mall, you'd have to fill EVERY SQUARE INCH of the Mall, from Jefferson to Madison, from 4th to 14th, with human bodies, touching shoulder to shoulder, tummy to back (which the promise keepers practically acomplished). They'd be crammed in there like sardines, literally. It would be a solid block of humanity, with no open space whatsoever. Not even a mosh pit approaches that sort of density. (and photographs show that the MMM gathering was not that crowded in the least)

And yet, oddly enough, all the photos of the MMM gathering (The only way you could fit 750,000 people into an area this size would be if you buried them five deep underground) show people comfortably spaced out, with plenty of grass between them. Not to mention the photos that show VAST expanses of grass totally devoid of any human beings at all.

I'm sorry, but it's a mathematical impossibility for there to have been 750,000 MMMers in the Mall that day.

Would you care to revise your phony numbers?

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Summary: Sensible? Oh please....
Review: "Not once in the book does she speak of taking away guns."

She doesnt have to. Not in this book, or anywhere else. She knows that suich a stance is politically unpopular so she hides her agenda in couched terms like "common sense", etc. In reality, Thomases and her organization are no different from all the other anti-gun organizations. They want to ban the possession of guns outright, but knowing that is an unpopular stand, they instead go for simple minded, "common sense" proposals. Things that sound reasonable, but then they go for more measures down the road, and then more after that, untill they have achieved their full blown agenda. Little by little, like the story about boiling the frog slowly.

HCI and VPC and Coalition to Prevent Handgun Violence(used to be Coalition to BAN Handguns),all their key people have publicly stated that they intend to ban guns and require every American citizen to turn them in. Then they realized that it was not good to advertise that,and developed their policy of 'incrementalism' where they slowly,bit-by-bit, enact more restrictions until they have their defacto ban. MMM has taken a page from that playbook.

Lets face it, I havent seen a gun control proposal in which Thomases and/or her organization threw up their hands because the legislation went too far. Quite the contrary. They have supported every far reaching gun control legislation. There isnt a gun control law they havent seen that they didnt like.

"The Million Mom March takes a middle of the road, sensible stand."

Oh, of course. Snicker. They don't want to ban guns; they just wants Congress to pass "common-sense" gun-control laws.

They say they aren't for banning guns, only for common sense gun laws-- but look at who their master of ceremonies was. Rosie "You aren't allowed to own a gun and, if you do, I think you should go to jail" O'Donnell. And she indicated hunting guns (rifles and shotguns) as well as handguns.

It's like an organization that says it's "only" against affirmative action preferences, but for equal opportunity, that invites a Ku Klux Klansman to be its keynote speaker. I'd personally conclude that they wanted to go a lot further than just getting rid of ethnic and racial preferences.

"while attempting to close gaps (sales not requiring background checks and limiting gun purchases to one per month) which have created a black market for guns."

This is false. That has not created a black market for guns. And limiting gun purchases to one a month IS taking guns away from people. Why not one a year, or one every century?

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Summary: Atlas Shrugged
Review: A much better book for a person to read would be Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand. Not the trash in a few good moms. A good mom would arm herself to protect her family not disarm law abiding people.

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Summary: Trash . . . . . from a dead movement.
Review: Haven't we heard enough from this crowd? (Hollywood Gliterati)

It's not the guns it's the people. And the people are now wise to the fact that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens stop crime.

Save your money . . . .

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Summary: A prime example of how easy it is to mislead others....
Review: If the authors had bothered to do any actual research they would have found out the real reason for the existence of this dubiously titled organization, a political pry bar would be good way of describing it.

Unfortunately the writers chose a side rather than looking at it objectively, which, of course is the whole modus operandi of this branch of the Brady organization. I did not read anywhere that explained how they are funded in large part by George Soros, the maniacal billionaire whose sole intention is to bring down the current government, probably just an oversight though.

The one thing this book does prove however is just how easy it is for people to be duped so I guess in light of that it deserves one star.

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Summary: I HAVE read the book
Review: In it, Donna portrays herself as the wide eyed innocent who had hardly taken part in such activism before. Years ago, around the inception of the MMM, she portrayed herself as just a naive, innocent housewife, who had just gotten involved with this kind of political activism for the very first time. For example, she told People magazine in 2000: "At first, I didn't know the Brady bill from The Brady Bunch." (Is that a credible claim of ignorance for a woman who served as a "spokesperson/manager of communications" for CBS News from 1987 to 1993?) But the year before, she conceded that for years "I've heard the Sarah Bradys of the world fight our battles and I'm, like, 'Go, Sarah,' but I've done nothing." Years later in her book, she still keeps up this type of facade.

Donna Dees-Thomases: "No one ever turns out for rallies about gun control."
Lisa Myers (NBC): "That's what you were told?"
Donna Dees-Thomases: "That's what I was told."

Myers: "Undaunted, she decided to set up the march herself."
Myers: "What's the biggest thing you've ever organized before?"
Dees-Thomases: "Um, a car pool."

This wasn't a spur of the moment idea of Donna Dees-Thomases, the alleged creator of this "event." Contrary to her portrayal, Thomases is no innocent, well-meaning mom. Not just your average housewife galvanized into action as she tries to portray herself. She's a figment of the liberal media, political, and entertainment industries. She's been a publicist for the "CBS Evening News" and was the flack for David Letterman. She worked as an assistant press secretary to Sen. Bennett Johnston (D-La.) and then Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) from 1979 to 1983.

And-oh, yeah-she's the sister-in-law of Susan Thomases, close friend of Hillary Clinton (and a financial contributor to Hillary's campaign), and -- like Hillary -- a frequent testifier before Congressional committees looking into Clinton multiple-scandaldom. And, like Hillary, Thomases was also a frequent utterer of the "I do not recall" defense. The Wall Street Journal has written a lot about her in their "Who is---?" series, about assorted Clinton cronies who've covered for Bill and Hill's misdeeds in various investigations. (This whole MMM thing is likely the brainchild of Hillary and her ilk.)

I'm sure that putting together this organization and it's "march" was no picnic, and I'm sure there were SOME things along the path that she didnt know about putting this all together. But give me a break from the phony facade of "naive housewife takes on hurculean task for very first time".

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Summary: The commitment it takes to make a societal change...
Review: is daunting. Reading this book took me through a roller coaster of emotions- from laughing, to crying, to utter amazement as to what it really takes to effect change in making the USA a safer nation.

I volunteered with Donna from the early days of the Million Mom March and I can tell you firsthand that everything in this book is authentic. Not many people have the courage, passion, or capacity to do what Donna has done. Those of you that have taken liberties on this review board to write unhelpful, childish comments that have nothing to do with the quality of the book are absolute cowards. Instead of wasting all of your energy on bashing other people, why don't you spend some time looking inside yourselves- maybe one day you'll realize that hating others for wanting safer communities comes from the lowest state of mind possible.

To the rest of the population out there, Donna and many others took major risks in their lives to accomplish the mission of creating the Million Mom March. Donna and the rest of the volunteers are doers- not talkers- and her book reflects the incredible unfolding of a major event that continues its work today to fight for a safer country.

Thank you Donna.

Rating:
Summary: The commitment it takes to make a societal change...
Review: is daunting. Reading this book took me through a roller coaster of emotions- from laughing, to crying, to utter amazement as to what it really takes to effect change in making the USA a safer nation.

I volunteered with Donna from the early days of the Million Mom March and I can tell you firsthand that everything in this book is authentic. Not many people have the courage, passion, or capacity to do what Donna has done. Those of you that have taken liberties on this review board to write unhelpful, childish comments that have nothing to do with the quality of the book are absolute cowards. Instead of wasting all of your energy on bashing other people, why don't you spend some time looking inside yourselves- maybe one day you'll realize that hating others for wanting safer communities comes from the lowest state of mind possible.

To the rest of the population out there, Donna and many others took major risks in their lives to accomplish the mission of creating the Million Mom March. Donna and the rest of the volunteers are doers- not talkers- and her book reflects the incredible unfolding of a major event that continues its work today to fight for a safer country.

Thank you Donna.

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Summary: I wish people had to prove they actually READ the book
Review: Is this a forum for people to express how they feel about issues or about the books about issues? I wish Amazon could screen the reviews to see if there's even a possibility that the reviewer opened the book. That would be more helpful to me, as a potential purchaser, than hearing someone's opinion about the issues the book addresses.