Category: Anti-Gun Folks

Remember that the guy who pays for this billboard helped the found and was president of an organization that claims to represent hunters and shooters.

UPDATE: More from Robb.

From Dwight Lewis of The Tennessean:

Gun advocates can make me sick to my stomach.

Glad to oblige.

Robyn ran one of the few anti-gun blogs out there.  But she got tired of the Reasoned Discourse and quit blogging.  Jacob found an interview with her by CSGV.  She said blogging:

… was one of the most disheartening experiences I’ve ever had. Most of the comments I received were so mean and lacking in compassion and empathy it was hard to believe people would write such things. Death threats were common. When I wrote about children dying from gun violence, responders wrote that inner city children were not really children, but rather thugs and monsters. Racism and prejudice seemed to motivate a lot of the comments.

I recall the comment section there, and I recall a lot of facts being brought forth to refute her emotionally driven nonsense.  I also don’t recall any racism in the suggestion that, yes, some children, particularly the ones that belong to gangs, are indeed monsters.

If the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership isn’t against people owning guns, why are they gloating over the fact that one of McCain’s advisors got prosecuted for having an unloaded shotgun in his car in DC?  I would think in a world where people hunt, and shoot clays, a common pastime in DC politics, that it should be common and accepted, even by the Brady Campaign.

Unless, of course, you believe all guns should be illegal, and all hunters and shooters who transport their firearms in compliance with federal law (but maybe not DC’s now unconstitutional law), should be in jail.  Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership, Indeed.

The Brady’s have been milking the NRA spy scandal for all its worth.  Not really unexpected, but for all the hoopla, it doesn’t seem to be generating all that much public interest or outrage.

… but the Brady Campaign finally gets to say “I told you so.” You knows, in another 20 years maybe they’ll get to exploit a concealed carry permit holder shooting up a school.

I thought this would be an appropriate title to reflect my “bunker mentality.”  The Brady Campaign has fired a salvo in our direction.  Like I said, we have the inherent disadvantage of having our disagreements out in the open where everyone can see it.  Fortunately for us, the only people who read the Brady Blog are gun nuts.

I will not take exception to the Brady Campaign trying to paint us as extremist.  I would expect nothing less from them.  But I do take exception to the notion that the topic of revolt isn’t a legitimate one, not deserving of being seriously addressed.  How many dangerous ideas throughout history have taken root because people dismissed them as nonsense?  There are people out there who, misguidedly, in my opinion, believe our Republic is a lost cause.  I do not share this sentiment, but it’s out there.  I don’t think dismissing it outright is a productive way of dealing with it.

From Paul Helmke:

“It raises some real concerns with the tactics of the NRA. If they’ve got one person, maybe they have more. If they’ve done this dirty trick, what else have they done?” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, which planned to search its offices for listening devices and computer spyware.

Paul, seriously.  You’re giving way too much credit to NRA.  Listening devices?  Spyware?  Have you seen NRA’s web site recently Paul?  Trust me.  You won’t find anything.  If you do, then I’ll be the first one to bitch that such enormous technical talent is going to waste spying on the Bradys rather than giving NRA a really solid web presence.  I’ve never seen G. Gordon Liddy hanging out at NRA events.  I think you’re safe from bugs, black bag jobs, and various other malfeasance.  Relax, and enjoy some Tequila.

The Philly Inquirer naturally couldn’t resist covering this one:

“She must be very good at what she does, because a whole bunch of very smart people were completely hoodwinked by this,” said Diane Edbril, CeaseFire PA’s executive director between 2004 and 2007.

Edbril hosted McFate at her Radnor home in July 2007, when McFate flew up from her home in Sarasota to attend a CeaseFire PA board meeting.

“She was in my guest room. Was she looking through stuff in my house?” Edbril was asking herself yesterday.

Ona Hamilton, whose local Million Mom March group evolved into CeaseFire PA in 2002, asked McFate to be on CeaseFire PA’s first board. McFate at the time was a board member for Pennsylvanians Against Handgun Violence. Hamilton said McFate would rail against her fellow board members in that organization for being too soft on the NRA, Hamilton said.

The article later goes on to suggest that many feel she still helped the movement a good deal through hard work and good ideas.  As I said previously, that would be the main problem I would have doing something like this.  I’m not willing to help the other side to the degree needed to get that kind of information.

Nonetheless, as much as I might be sympathetic with Diane Edbril’s feelings of betrayal, attempting to destroy part of the Constitution of the United States and part of the Constitution of this commonwealth isn’t trivial business.  I am willing to accept quite a lot of harsh tactics, within the bounds of the law, in order to preserve it.

I thought the evil National Rifle Assocation made lawsuits like this illegal?