Before VPC, Brady, CeasefirePA, MAIG, HGC, and the NRA, there was...

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The original contemporary antigun organization that preceded even the antigun NRA:

some evil Quakers quacks (I may have been under mistaken believe the society was predominantly Quaker, oops) known as the Pennsylvania Peace Society!

"The activities of the Pennsylvania Peace Society included holding peace fairs, neighborhood "parlor" meetings, musical programs featuring the Peace Band, Mother's Peace Days, lectures on peace and internationalism, and war relief work, which included knitting woolen garments as well as raising funds for food relief. The Pennsylvania Peace Society championed the cause of temperance, worked for the elimination of boxing bouts, the regulation of firearms, and the abolition of capital punishment, and attempted to uplift public morality through education in public schools. It also gave tacit approval to woman suffrage. The minute books record the debates occasioned by often ambivalent goals and objectives as the Pennsylvania Peace Society struggled to maintain an identity separate from the well-known Universal Peace Union."
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/pe.../DG031PPS.html

Note that "Several women served as Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Pennsylvania Peace Society, including Lucretia Mott, who was the Society's third President (ca. 1870-1880)." Thank you for taking up the task, good women! Except when you send a letter to the constitutional convention telling it to abolish Pa. Const. art. I, sec. 21! http://forum.pafoa.org/concealed-ope...ml#post1481572

And so, a hearty FUCK YOU to those dead Quakers quacks who thought that spreading the good word at church, speaking the word on the street, or handbilling was not sufficient to turn the minds of many into deleting the recognizance of our liberty! I did not know it to be a Quaker thing, to ask for tyranny and criminals!