As you’ve all seen in recent months, Bloomberg has been moving in on the Brady Organization’s turf, in the form of celebrity recruitment. We know there has been some tension between Brady and Bloomberg in this regard from the Freedom of Information requests to the City of New York. That’s why I find this recent release from the Brady Campaign to be filled with hilarity:
We have exciting news! The mayors of America’s three largest cities — Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago — have joined the Brady Campaign in calling on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to take action against the five percent of ‘bad apple’ gun dealers who are responsible for ninety percent of the crime guns terrorizing our communities.
This letter calls for the investigation, reform and possible closure of ‘bad apple’ gun dealers, as well as the adoption of an enforceable code of conduct. Simply put, we know who the ‘bad apples’ are, and we want the Attorney General and the Justice Department to take action!
This is an important step in our Stop Bad Apple Gun Dealers campaign, and the voices of many are more impactful than the voices of a few.
That’s why we need your help in getting more mayors to sign on to this important letter!
We want to show Attorney General Lynch that stopping ‘bad apple’ gun dealers is a priority across the country and you can help make that possible!
Thank you for your continuing support and stay tuned for more exciting updates about our Bad Apple Gun Dealer campaign!
Brian Malte
Senior National Policy Director
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
You move in on our turf, and we’ll move in on yours? You know, there was a reason that Everytown absorbed MAIG right? There was a reason Bloomberg deemphasized that effort. It’s because Mayors tend to be corrupt, narcissistic, borderline sociopaths who often find themselves in trouble with the law. Good luck with this new strategy, Brady folks. Good luck! Way to bring the fun back in this debate. I can’t wait to start pointing out how many Brady mayors are being incarcerated.
“They pull a knife, you pull a gun.”
“I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his … ”
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Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done.”
“There ain’t many things that you can’t fix,
With seven-hundred dollars and a thirty-ought-six.”
I got a million of ’em!
Go ahead dimwits, tear each other apart!
Anyone got popcorn???
So is “bad apple” the new buzz word? We don’t want to take your guns, we just want to shut down the bad apples. Except guns are icky, so they’re all bad apples…
Not only that, but only “bad apples” are responsible for all this bad behavior. It’s never the straw purchasers. (Part of the reason is that the DA is typically hesitant to bring up charges against straw purchasers, since they are so often the abused girlfriend–or someone else similarly sympathy-worthy–of the person they are buying the gun for…
“Mayors tend to be corrupt, narcissistic, borderline sociopaths who often find themselves in trouble with the law.”
As opposed to celebrities, who tend to be greedy, narcissistic, borderline sociopaths who often find themselves in trouble with the law.
I guess at least they cannot be called corrupt because they are not in public service.