Category: Anti-Gun Folks

Here’s a statement from the Brady Campaign on the whole Heller thing.   Looks like Josh Sugarmann isn’t happy either, even though he’s now in a prime opportunity to take advantage of this decision.  I am not without a heart.  I feel for them.  I really do.  So I’m going to offer my recommendation to help ease the pain of this decision.

It’s readily available, especially in DC, it’s cheap, and it will make the pain go away very quickly.  When it comes to assuaging your sorrow, there’s nothing in the world that beats tequila.  I can speak from experience here.  So Peter, send Doug to the liquor store, crack open a bottle, and get started.  You can drink to Mexico, where guns are still illegal.  I wouldn’t wait until the close of business.  I’d get started now.  Invite Josh over too.  I’m sure he’ll appreciate it.   Be sure to get pictures of Paul looking down the neck of an empty bottle, looking sad.  We really would like that.

Howard Nemerov takes a look at some of VPC’s claims that appeared in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.  He’ll be on Cam & Company tonight at 11:40PM EDT to discuss this.  You can listen on NRANews.com

The Brady Campaign looks at stuff like this, and this, and comment “Another sad, tragic waste.”  I call it Darwin at work.  I have no problem with idiots like this chlorinating the gene pool with their own stupid carelessness.

I do have a problem when their stupid carelessness takes other people down with them, which is why I anxiously await the Brady’s supporting my proposal to reintroduce the shooting sports into our nation’s schools, so that everyone knows how to safely and responsibly handle a firearm, in a supervised environment.

Gun accidents are rare, and becoming rarer, thanks in part to the shooting community adopting a culture of safety.  You will never stop every idiot, but we can and have reduced the occurrence of accidents among gun owners to the point where they are unusual enough to be newsworthy.

Number one Brady ranked California’s gun laws are just too lax, according to their CA state chapter.  They’ll always be too lax.  If you can obtain a firearm, they are too lax.  Don’t believe it when they say otherwise.

Jacob has the videos.  Take a look.  Seeing the expression on Helmke’s face, it almost looks as if his punishment was having to be locked up in a room while Dennis droned on about collective rights in a rather snoozy attempt to undo the damage the ABC News article wrought.

Dave Hardy has further insight into the ABC News article from yesterday that stated the Brady Campaign was bracing for a loss on the Second Amendment:

Brady Campaign goes on to cite what they could push for, and could hope to pass constitutional muster: universal (i.e., private sale) background checks, AW bans, “curbing large volume sales,” i.e., one gun a month.

Leaving aside whether those would pass muster … how does the Brady Campaign hope to survive on them? I’d wager that a LOT of its contributors give only because they believe those are stepping stones to things more significant, a “good start” rather than an end. If they faced a reality in which everything would stop with background checks, an AW ban, and one gun a month — that they’d never get beyond that — they might well bail out.

I would say a lot of their constituency is in it in order to ban guns.  You might get people casually saying “Oh yeah, that sounds reasonable,” to a lot of their agenda, but the folks who care enough to send money and get involved either hate guns, or are scared to death of them.  Either way, if the courts take their eventual goal off the table, I don’t see how they stay in it, unless the Brady’s want to start a movement to repeal the second amendment (good luck with that one).

If I were Peter Hamm or Paul Helmke, I’d be thinking there surely has to be other places in the D.C. establishment where they can put their skills and talents to more effective and creative use.

UPDATE: More here and here.

Apparently Father Snuffy was much missed at a recent gun control rally in Chicago.  I guess gun control rallies in Chicago just aren’t that fun unless someone’s there to threaten to murder gun shop proprietors.

SayUncle tells the Brady Campaign to stay classy.  It’s for the children.

See this CBS News article, and this gem of a quote:

“We’ve lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means,” campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. “Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it’s an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically.”

Yep.  Of course, this is to be expected if Heller wins.  They go on to say that a victory in Heller won’t really mean much, and could, in fact, mean that the NRA no longer can stoke the fears of gun owners that gun control will lead to confiscation.  That’s not a poor analysis, but if the second amendment actually means something, I don’t see how that’s going to end with the Brady agenda remaining in tact.

While I have no doubt the federal judiciary will not interpret the second amendment as broadly as we would like, I don’t think the Brady Campaign will be entirely happy with the outcome either.  Plus, if The Courts more or less settle the issue politically, gun control groups stand to lose a lot more than the NRA.  The NRA will continue to exist even absent the political debate.  Not that I actually believe the debate will ever be settled, but the gun control crowd will have to regroup, lower their goalposts, and see what ways the federal courts will allow them to agitate us.

When the BATF comes out and criticizes your report, and you’re a gun control advocacy group, it’s a pretty good indication you’re on the wrong side of the issue.