Category: Anti-Gun Folks

The Brady Campaign would seem to have been taken in by satire. Who knew that the Brady death spiral would be so entertaining? At some point, they’ll have to accept just being Dennis Henigan and a couple of other people, just like CSGV and VPC. Maybe they are already close to that, who knows. But things have not been the same since Helmke and Hamm departed, that’s for sure.

This time courtesy of Roanoke Times reporter Mike Gentry and the Associated Press, which is basically a long-winded insult to gun owners. I’m surprised the AP would put out such low grade material as this. Seriously, I’ve seen blog posts that were of higher quality. Where can I get paid to be a random bonehead venting? Oh wait…

Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result, right? Someone needs to tell at least one Professor at Virginia Tech. The article goes on, insinuating that ordinary people are actually killers just waiting to snap, despite most psychological, and sociological evidence which says this is not the case.

What I can’t get over is the shock of these people. Did you really believe the myth about lighting and not striking the same place twice? That there’s nutty people out there who don’t give a rat’s behind whether they’re on a college campus, and will just walk up to cops and randomly murder them, is why many of us carry guns.

I purchased my first weapon at age 10, with my saved allowance, a .22 caliber Ithaca saddle gun from the local Western Auto store, for $29.95. I’m absolutely positive there was no background check.

I am sure there are many young boys and girls across America who have listened intently to their training and learned to handle weapons maturely. I was not one of them. I distinctly remember one camping trip at age 12 that broke out into frightening gunplay. I still can’t figure how someone didn’t get shot that weekend.

Practicing Second Amendment law is what all the cool kids are doing these days, and the Brady Campaign aren’t ones to be left out in the cold. Documenting the Brady organizations’ descent into madness is quite a pleasure. Miguel has been really good at finding the really off-kilter stuff.

It’s tough being a gun control advocate these days, I guess especially if you’re a professional one. Miguel shows us how the Brady Campaign is having difficulty accepting the Black Friday gun rush, by suggesting gun ownership is on the decline, despite polling indicating otherwise. The news we reported on yesterday, on investment analysts suggesting that increased gun sales represent a permanent cultural shift, really can’t have sat well with our opponents. I think they are essentially correct. It’s becoming OK again to be a gun owner. Much of that change, I think, has been in the past three years.

I think the primary reason our opponents are failing is because they have not been good advocates. They’ve shied away from making their arguments in forums they don’t control, and thus have largely removed themselves from serious public debate, which in the Internet age is a lot more important.

Gun control advocates don’t have much to celebrate these days. They haven’t seen much love from Obama, and the latest dog and pony show being brought forth by Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be dead on arrival. They’ve been spread so thin they are forced to retreat to college campuses as a last stand, while groups like NRA keep educating college students on the Second Amendment and shooting. No wonder they are resorting to lashing out any way they can.

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Sebastian sent me a link to Joan Peterson’s latest ramblings, and I truly could not believe what was on the screen before me. I don’t mean the standard non-sensical ramblings with her own set of facts that change depending on what argument she wants to make. She’s actually questioning whether people who even own gun-themed clothing are reasonable enough to have children. She asserts that people who make such decisions may not be acceptable role models. This is what she has to say about the 17-year-old who was stopped by TSA for having a gun design on her purse:

The teen is pregnant so one has to wonder what role model this will be for her young child? There’s a message here and it’s not one of “peace on earth, good will towards men.”

This is not some sort of fantasy of a random gun banner in a thoughtless Facebook comment or careless tweet. This is “thoughtful discussion” from a board member of a group that some members of Congress actually take serious when it comes to policy on our fundamental rights. She considers it reasonable to question whether a home with a women who merely owns a purse with a gun design on it makes her a fit parent.

It almost makes me wonder what Joan would really have to say about the NRA tricycle and NRA jeep. Or, even better, what would she really say about the fact that there was a bidding war for the tricycle at our Friends of NRA dinner in September?

Congressman Joe Walsh has been busy trying to get Brady Campaign “Acting” President Dennis Henigan to debate him. But Henigan won’t take him up on it, unless the debate is hosted in Washington D.C. Walsh has even goaded him with a letter.

This is very useful information to us, because I can’t think of any reason that Henigan would spurn Walsh’s challenge, except the the Brady Campaign doesn’t want to spend the money to send Henigan out to Illinois. He’d rather have it in DC, because, quite frankly, he doesn’t have to travel for that. If this is indeed the case, Henigan is a fool for even making the counter offer, for what that reveals.

I’m really starting to believe we’re witnessing the end days of the Brady Campaign, and possibly even of the Brady Center. If they can’t even send their lead man out to an important battleground state to make the organization’s case, things can’t be good  for them.

I have to hand it to the Scottsdale Gun Club, they managed to find a holiday themed public relations campaign that has the wonderful side effect of making our opponents crap their pants. Here’s an example:

You will note from the comments to this picture, how our opponents react. I’m particularly stunned by this comment:

Maybe I’m being a bit harsh, but if you’re going to claim power over me to set public policy on firearms, you should at least not be a total moron on the subject. I don’t expect you to be able to identify this firearm as an H&K G36KV, but I do at least expect you to know what end pointy hot lead comes out of. I think most people who aren’t complete idiots know what end that is.

UPDATE: Looks like I’m not the only person that noticed.

I’ve been reluctant to argue that in some marginally convoluted way the Brady Campaign is continuing the cycle of violence by supporting the outlaws who will remain armed. But, I actually found an incident tonight where they are outright endorsing an online group that calls for retaliation rather than justice through the legal system and honors a man who was an active part of the drug culture.

This is the tweet that caught my attention. I checked out the linked Facebook page, and I was shocked by what they were promoting. That speaks volumes since I have already documented when they retweeted a young mother who was using pot around her sick child and a man whose previous tweets were calling for an expansion of the “thug” lifestyle. There were also the racist tweets that dropped the N word frequently and the woman they promoted who publicly attacks women of other races as “evil.”

The Facebook page in question is called Families Against Gun Violence. However, in the About section, it notes that the page is actually to honor Moises Nazario who was shot as part of a drug transaction. He was not an innocent bystander, as police say he was on the scene specifically to take part in the drug deal.

But, let’s say that the Brady Campaign simply didn’t do their homework to see who they were honoring with this tweet. Instead, we’ll look at the wall of the page, the link that the Brady Campaign highlighted to all of their followers. On the front page of the group, we have messages like this:

Yeah. You want to convince me that an all caps message with that kind of rhetoric is all about waiting on the legal system to take its course? I don’t think so.

This, combined with the previous people that the Brady Campaign has promoted in their social media networks, indicates that they have embraced those connected with violent and drug-related activities as spokespeople for their movement. I don’t understand how some of their own board members who are known to be active on their social media sites accept this kind of messaging. It’s unacceptable to promote these kinds of messages.