Re: a history lesson for ... GUN NUTS! (Have Someone Read It To You.)
R. LaCasse
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|> Hello. I want to clear up a few things I have been reading about.
|>First off it was not the NRA who went after the city of Tombstone back
|>in 1991-94 over their old illegal Earp ordinance it was me and two
|>others who are now deceased. The NRA only provided the legal
|>assistance. Also, that fight was more about fighting a town whose city
|>fathers ran it as a minor dictatorship rather than the gun issue
|>itself. For me the gun issue was just the straw that broke the camels
|>back. So if you are truly interested in knowing the truth of what took
|>place in Tombstone back then read on, if you don't want to hear the
|>truth then move on, if you would like to hear more than this then
|>contact me.
|> Being tired of Tombstone forcing its will upon its citizens and
|>watching how the city had broken the law by not even allowing a grown
|>adult to carry a capgun in his holster while working at a business in
|>town dressed in costume. Yes, this fellow had to get a permit from the
|>city to carry a capgun! Yet any child could run up and down the
|>streets of Tombstone with a capgun at any time. Lets not forget,
|>Arizona is an open carry state and has been since 1912 so therefore
|>Tombstone was the law breaker and not the citizens.
|> I was a day wage cowboy at that time working on a few of the local
|>ranches. From time to time I would ride through Tombstone on my horse
|>while on my way into the desert to gather cows or sometimes just to be
|>alone. When heading into the desert alone I always carried my sidearm.
|>As I would pass through Tombstone the Marshal would pull me over on my
|>horse just as though I were driving my pickup truck and harass me over
|>wearing my sidearm threatening me with weapon confiscation or arrest.
|>Knowing the Arizona law I told them to arrest me or leave me alone so
|>rather than put their selves in a lawsuit position they would only
|>harass me.
|> As the pressure grew I contacted the NRA and asked for legal
|>assistance and it was granted. By pressure I mean being harassed,
|>having property destroyed, being shot at and in the end having to
|>shoot and wound a man in self defense while on my own property from
|>the same folks who had torn down my corrals, destroyed my tack shed,
|>shot at my house and shot at me while driving my pickup down our dirt
|>road. Funny! no one ever wants to hear how the so called anti gunners
|>were the first to fire shots in anger. Also no one knows how the local
|>newspaper lied in print stating that the city could be more stringent
|>than state law but not less which when I called the county attorney he
|>made them retract it.
Things may have been different then, I say that because a lot of
guns have NOT changed as drastically as per se.....the Automotive Industry
|> After three years we made it to court and the judge found us to be
|>legally correct and ordered the Tombstone Mayor to change the
|>ordinance. With all of the police reports we had filed the judge also
|>told the Mayor and Marshal that if we were ever harassed again without
|>proof of wrong doing he would put them in jail. Also funny! I was in
We don't see tooo much of that these days, they usually plea
bargain, or if nothing else works, they put you in community work...
Club Fed is reserved for the real baddys, but a lot in Canada, who
are caught packing heat all over, usually get dismissed without a doing
time....
In my time, having an unarmed hippie with a beard and long hair was
thrown in jail under the most ridiculous blatant lying trumped
charges....with the Nark OD'd and snoring in the court room.....courts of
arbitration and kangaroo courts were mean and evil ways of dealing with
unarmed hippies.
|>the movie Tombstone. I was the drover who Billy Bob Thornton was
|>threatening to kill at the card table about ten or fifteen minutes
|>into the movie. This was always ironic to me because this movie was
|>being filmed in 1993 during the height of our all to real fight with
|>Tombstone over the same old thing from 1881. The gun ordinance.
There's a lot s_e_n_s_a_t_i_o_n_a_l_i_s_m in all that Hollywood
stuff, hell they killed way over 4X the amount of ppl that existed then...
All those cowboy day killings in Montana=4, not some 400.
s_e_n_s_a_t_i_o_n_a_l_i_s_m, if it sells, that's what the anti
gunnys like Bradys and others love to horde.
|> I hope this clears up much of the wrong information that I have
|>read over the years of what took place back then. Also, since 1994
|>when the ordinance was killed, the ordinance was the only thing killed
|>on the streets of Tombstone unlike the hysteria of the time that there
|>would be blood running in the streets which never happened.
|>Thanks.
|>
Thanx for your input, I hope the TREND moves up north....real quick.
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