WMSA Movie Night!Whoo hoo! WMSA is having another movie night!
Movie: In Search of the Second Amendment
Date: May 22nd
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Glenwood Arts Theater at 9575 Metcalf in Overland Park.
Price: $8 for the 2008 elections
You will want to bring all your friends to this one!
So come join WMSA for an evening of entertainment, enlightenment & fellowship
While
this film will educate any activist, it was also directed at winning
over swing votes, and showing the importance of the right to arms to
anyone but Sarah Brady. For that reason, the persons interviewed are
primarily legal academics, and include some of the biggest names in
American constitutional law. Further, the original historical
writings are shown during the discussion, so that the viewers can see
the materials themselves. Viewers don’t merely hear experts
discussing how the Founding Fathers and their friends wrote about the
Second Amendment – they can read the original articles themselves
as they are being put in context.
In
Search of the Second Amendment also reaches out to groups, such as
minorities and women, whom the traditional message has largely
neglected. It points out how attempts to confiscate arms from Black
Americans led directly to the 14th Amendment (1868), and
how those confiscations were intended to render them vulnerable to
Klan oppression. It shows how our first feature-length film (“Birth
of a Nation,” 1915) celebrated the Klan and the disarmament of
Blacks, and how during the Civil Rights era, civil rights workers
armed themselves to stave off terror, joined the NRA, and even used
arms to break up a Klan rally. It discusses how self-defense is
especially important to women, and studies indicating that women
disproportionately use firearms in self-defense.
We’ve
had enough educational efforts that preach to the choir – this one
can be used to win over people who aren’t already on your page!
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