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They're Back!
The latest from the marching mothers.

By Melissa A. Seckora, NR editorial associate

e all know about the Million Mom March on the national mall held on Mother's Day.

Well, the moms are not just marching anymore. Now they have a national foundation, local chapters, a Web site, an Apple Pie Award, and "Marchware" — a collection of T-shirts.

Donna Dees-Thomases and her marching mothers have also launched another attack on legislators, this time using coupons. Paid for by the Million Mom March Foundation, the national newspaper ad campaign addresses this question to all public officials: "Will you support a law requiring that all handgun owners be licensed?" Neatly designed as a coupon, the ad is meant to be clipped and sent to the politician nearest you. See, this time the moms are really mad. Now they're demanding that politicians answer to their children: "Our kids are dying to know," they proclaim.

But how does a grassroots effort that sells "Flowers are Good, Guns are Bad" t-shirts get taken seriously? Then there's the Mom's Apple Pie Award. President Clinton received one for mentioning gun reform in his State of the Union address; Elizabeth Dole, for saying, "You don't need an AK-47 to protect your family." New York governor George Pataki is also a winner.

Okay, so maybe in this country you don't need an AK-47 to protect your family. But with marches and flower power and apple pies you can save the world from guns? Come on. The Million Mom March Foundation says on its Web site that it wants to become a part of an "historic movement." But it is nothing more than a group of women trying to define a new kind of feminism: The stay-at-home-political-activist-coupon-clipping mom who thinks she can change the Constitution and hide behind her own skirt at the same time.

Listen, moms: Let's get it straight. The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.

If you haven't heard enough about passing "sensible" gun laws, the effects of gun trauma, and the like, check out www.millionmommarch.com for a good laugh. Be careful or you might end up with Wayne LaPierre in the time out chair.

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