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Fashion Rag Launches Anti-Gun Campaign
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"...I'm afraid of guns..." |
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-- Fashion Model Heidi Klum |
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Heidi Klum |
The latest addition to the list of anti-gun mouthpieces is the
fashion magazine Marie Claire, which announced the launch of an
all-out attack on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms in its January,
2001 issue. Glenda Bailey, the magazine's Editor-in-Chief,
writes, "We asked celebrities...to join us in our campaign for
sensible gun laws," then plugs anti-gun lobbying organizations
such as HCI and the "Million Mom March" (MMM).
But what does the
magazine consider to be "sensible gun laws?" Apparently, banning
all firearms falls under the magazine's definition. The feature
announcing the campaign includes photographs of several
celebrities, along with quotes revealing their true goals.
British rock star Sting, for example, suggests, "Use your
imagination and imagine a world without guns," while contributing
editor Trudie Styler states, "It's time to ban the gun." If there
is any question about whether the magazine supports these
extremist views, one needs only to look to the words of Ms.
Bailey, who praises Styler for "her commitment and support" to
the magazine's efforts.
Other celebrities included in the feature? Controversial film
director Spike Lee, who once suggested that NRA President
Charlton Heston should be murdered by someone using a handgun
(FAX Alert, Vol. 6, No. 21). Lee states in the magazine, "The NRA
has got to go," which we can only presume is a position supported
by Marie Claire.
Also lending support are actresses Melanie
Griffith, Susan Sarandon, and Uma Thurman, actors Michael
Douglas, Ethan Hawke (who is married to Thurman), and Justin
Timberlake, and models Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Sophie
Dahl, Heidi Klum, and Christy Turlington. Klum simply states,
"I'm afraid of guns," which begs the question, if she were afraid
of heights, as many people are, would she support banning tall
buildings?
And, not to be denied more media attention, Donna
Dees-Thomases, the political operative who orchestrated the MMM
Mother's Day event held this year in Washington, D.C., was
included as a supporter of the magazine's gun-ban agenda.
The magazine, of course, includes all the routine inflammatory
rhetoric one would expect from a publication that has thrown its
lot in with the gun ban extremists, including
- using grossly
misleading or outright inaccurate "statistics,"
- supporting the
continued attempts to ban gun shows as we know them today, and
- implying that it gives full support to the reckless lawsuits
designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.
You can read more
about Marie Claire's support of gun bans at
http://www.marieclaire.com/.
If you wish to contact the magazine
to object to its editorial policy that supports attacks on the
Second Amendment, you can write to:
Letters
Marie Claire
1790
Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10019
You can also call (212)
649-5000, send faxes to (212) 649-5050, or send e-mail to
marieclaire@hearst.com.
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