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03-31-2005, 01:35 PM
by William Norman Grigg March 30, 2005
Following the tragic shooting death of her 20-year-old son in 2002, Annette "Flirty" Stevens of Springfield, Illinois, was prompted to establish a chapter of the Million Mom March (MMM), a group promoting civilian disarmament. In late February, reported the March 2 issue of Springfield’s State Journal-Register, Stevens "was arrested … when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home."
The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and a quantity of narcotics were found after police “obtained a search warrant for the residence as part of an ongoing investigation of a recent series of drive-by shootings,” recounted the paper. “Although police declined to get into specifics, Stevens has a ‘close connection’ with one of the two feuding groups involved in the shootings, Lt. Rickey Davis said....”
Stevens admits that she knows “some of the people allegedly involved in the drive-by shootings” (that is, gang members) but insists that “she only knows them because of her interest in stopping gun violence. She also admits to owning the gun, which she insists belonged to her late son. But she maintains that the arrest “is an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crime in the city.” If she believes the police to be so untrustworthy, it’s curious that she wants them (along with the military) to have a monopoly on the legal ownership of firearms.
“I know Miss Stevens, and I know her character,” stated Jonathan Lackland, Midwest regional director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, MMM’s “partner organization.” “She has been a staunch supporter of gun-violence-prevention measures.” In her own defense, Stevens could claim she was emulating the duplicitous behavior of gun control czarina Sarah Brady, who — in the words of the New York Daily News — “bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 — and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements.”
Full Article (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1097.shtml)
Following the tragic shooting death of her 20-year-old son in 2002, Annette "Flirty" Stevens of Springfield, Illinois, was prompted to establish a chapter of the Million Mom March (MMM), a group promoting civilian disarmament. In late February, reported the March 2 issue of Springfield’s State Journal-Register, Stevens "was arrested … when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home."
The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and a quantity of narcotics were found after police “obtained a search warrant for the residence as part of an ongoing investigation of a recent series of drive-by shootings,” recounted the paper. “Although police declined to get into specifics, Stevens has a ‘close connection’ with one of the two feuding groups involved in the shootings, Lt. Rickey Davis said....”
Stevens admits that she knows “some of the people allegedly involved in the drive-by shootings” (that is, gang members) but insists that “she only knows them because of her interest in stopping gun violence. She also admits to owning the gun, which she insists belonged to her late son. But she maintains that the arrest “is an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crime in the city.” If she believes the police to be so untrustworthy, it’s curious that she wants them (along with the military) to have a monopoly on the legal ownership of firearms.
“I know Miss Stevens, and I know her character,” stated Jonathan Lackland, Midwest regional director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, MMM’s “partner organization.” “She has been a staunch supporter of gun-violence-prevention measures.” In her own defense, Stevens could claim she was emulating the duplicitous behavior of gun control czarina Sarah Brady, who — in the words of the New York Daily News — “bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 — and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements.”
Full Article (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1097.shtml)