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Attendance Down for Anti-Gun ~~Million~~ ~~Thousand~~ Several Mom March

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Posted by Steve 2004-05-10 11:08:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Would love to see the organizers' claims on how many attended the march. A common characteristic of the "activist" marches and rallies is to claim numbers two to ten times greater than the actual attendance and then have those inflated numbers show up in the mainstream press.

Posted by Highlander 2004-05-10 11:42:49 AM|| 2004-05-10 11:42:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting chronology:

1. 500,000-750,000 attendees in 2000
2. 9/11
3. 2,000 attendees this year

Amazing what a terrorist attack and a war will do for the sanity of the public, no?

Posted by AzCat 2004-05-10 11:46:24 AM|| 2004-05-10 11:46:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I told my wife that I could probably scrounge up 2,000 people in the US that thought a "Mother ship" is hiding behind the moon and telepathically controlling our leaders.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-05-10 11:52:19 AM|| 2004-05-10 11:52:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You mean it's not? Darn...

Posted by mojo 2004-05-10 12:07:24 PM|| 2004-05-10 12:07:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It is mojo, YS is just kidding.

There's also a large hedgehog hiding out at Heathrow, and he's out to get me. ;)

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-05-10 12:48:02 PM|| 2004-05-10 12:48:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I told my wife that I could probably scrounge up 2,000 people in the US that thought a "Mother ship" is hiding behind the moon and telepathically controlling our leaders.

That total would be minus the former Heaven's Gate cult members, right? :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-10 12:54:41 PM|| 2004-05-10 12:54:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like they were 998,000 moms short.
Maybe they had to wash their hair.

Posted by Jen 2004-05-10 12:54:54 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-10 12:54:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 No Jen, they were all US moms. IF they had held the march in Europe, several million mothers would have showed up. A majority in burkas.

Posted by Charles 2004-05-10 1:01:13 PM|| 2004-05-10 1:01:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL Spiny Lawrence!

Posted by Churchills Parrott 2004-05-10 1:16:59 PM|| 2004-05-10 1:16:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 There were only several hundred of the Second Amendment Sisters on hand at the counter protest. On its face this would seem to show that there are still a greater number of anti-gun women than there are those in favor. However the fact that the events were held on Mother's Day is a confounding factor. Now I'm not saying that the anti-gun crowd is less interested in celebrating the day at home with the family than the pro-gun group would be.

I'm just saying...

Posted by eLarson 2004-05-10 1:42:54 PM|| 2004-05-10 1:42:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I just wonder when they're going to rename the "march." I'm not holding my breath, though, on next year's "2,000 commie, anti-Constitutional March".

Posted by BA 2004-05-10 3:44:34 PM|| 2004-05-10 3:44:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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