A letter from Michael Moore

Wednesday, October 25th, 2002
Yes, It Was a Bushmaster.

Dear friends,

Yesterday, Larry Bennett, a 16-year old, was shot in the head after he was
involved in a minor traffic accident. You probably didn't hear about it
because, well, how could he be dead if he wasn't shot by The Sniper?

Yesterday, an unidentified woman was shot to death in her car in Fenton, MI.
You probably didn't hear about it because she had the misfortune of not
being
shot by The Sniper.

Two nights ago, Charles D. Bennett, 48, an apartment security guard, was
shot
to death after confronting two teenagers in his parking lot in Memphis, TN.
You probab! ly didn't hear about it because the sniper was too busy sleeping
in
his car that night, and thus, poor Charles was not shot by The Sniper.

Yes, The Sniper has apparently been caught, so we can go back now to NOT
reporting the DOZENS of gun deaths that occur every day, the ones that just
aren't newsworthy because they happen in all those old boring ways -- unlike
the ways of The Sniper, who was interesting and creative and exciting and
scary! He played so much better on the news.

Of course, had Congress not caved in to the NRA we would have known after
the
first HOUR of the first day of the killings three weeks ago that those
bullets were coming out of a rifle that belonged to John Williams/Mohammad.
How would we know this? It's right there in the state records in New Jersey:
this gun was purchased this past July, under the name of John Mohammad!

Many more people died needlessly in the days and weeks after that first hourof the shootings, and every one of their deaths could have probably been
prevented had we had a national ballistics fingerprinting data base.

Thank you, Mr. Heston for this unnecessary carnage. Thank you, Mr. Bush, for
supporting Mr. Heston and his group's agenda -- which protects only the
criminals.

And thank you, Bushmaster Firearms, Inc., for providing the gun used to
shoot
the 13 people in the DC area. Bushmaster's president, Richard E. Dyke, was
the Maine finance chairman of George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign.
According to Business Week, Dyke had to step down as Bush's finance chair
"after reporters began quizzing him about his business dealings. Bushmaster
Firearms Inc., is notorious for using loopholes to sidestep a 1994 federal
ban on assault rifles." Bush and Bushmaster. Too tragically perfect.

If everyone reading this letter (and you now number in the millions) would
share this fact with just one per! son who is thinking of skipping going to
the
polls on Nov. 5th, I believe that on Nov. 6th, Mr. Bush will have neither
the
Senate nor the House doing his or Heston's bidding. Americans don't like
people who assist serial killers in being able to ratchet up their kills
because The Sniper knows that his bullets are prohibited by law from being
traced to his gun.

That, in a nutshell, is what the NRA is all about -- and I implore all
responsible gun owners and hunters to join with me in putting an end to the
NRA agenda once and for all. Don't give Bush his majority on November 5th.
He's already seen to it that his cronies in big business have wiped out your
401 (K), and they are doing their best to see that you are left with no
pension at all. That alone should be reason enough to NOT pull a single
lever
for a Republican on Nov. 5th. Send a message. Do something brave.

Yours,

Michael Moore mike@michaelmoore.com
www.michaelmoore.com