Category: Anti-Gun Folks

Kenn Blanchard has a must read about the RealCo protests.

Keyboard and a .45 has a post about one of the protesters in Dallas yesterday:

Lamont Levels may have changed his ways. Lamont Levels may be actually helping kids stay out of the gangs and stay in school. For that he should be applauded. But for the Brady Bunch to parade him out in front of the cameras, with an unnecessary and poorly applied eye patch, wailing about evil guns, is a bunch of crap. Lamont knows that gang bangers do not obey the law. Lamont knows that the guns in the hands of the gangs were not legally purchased through an ffl, but either stolen or purchased on the black market. Lamont knows that no amount of gun control laws will control the criminals who use guns. And you know what? The Brady’s do to.

I agree.  It’s a good message to get kids to turn away from violence.  That Lamont has reformed himself and taken it upon himself to try to keep kids out of gangs is commendable, but I don’t get being big on toughening the laws that he wasn’t concerned about obeying at the time he was shot.

Yvette Alexander, who’s had some discussion with Pro-Gun Progressive, apparently has a forum.  Countertop has been having some fun with it.

Looks like only a few people showed up, according to The Daily News.  Hell, you could have gotten that turnout just with anti-gun journalists at all the city papers.  The people they mention are the standard players in the Philadelphia gun control movement.

Looks like the gun control movement didn’t have any better luck in other cities.

Looks like our folks did a good job for RealCo, the Prince Georges County gun shop that was under attack by the Rainbow Coalition. The Other Sebastian got there a bit late because of work, but still managed to debate a DC City Councilwoman.

The big problem with gun rights activism, especially in the face of an organization like Rainbow PUSH, which has the money to bring in there own protesters, is that we all have jobs, and have to make a living.

I was considering crashing the Philadelphia Brady event, seen here. Not crashing as in showing up and being obnoxious, but just listening to what they had to say and dutifully reporting it to all of you.

But I’m just finishing up my work for the day now, and this time of day it takes a while to get into the city from where I am. Given that I was out all morning yesterday, I was doubting I was going to be able to get out early enough today to make it over there.

I am working on making my contribution to the August 28th events though, which I will talk about later.

Thirdpower documents some other Brady “proven” technologies.  No one seems to be talking about ballistic fingerprinting anymore.  Microstamping is all the range among the “in” crowd.

… order a nice big print of this, frame it, and mail it to Paul Helmke at Brady Campaign headquarters.   We could even add a nice card that says “We win!”, to sweeten it up.

I agree with Joe that we can’t slow down because we’re winning, but as gun owners, we have a tendency to do that.  Now is the time to begin attacking them on their “secure” territory.

Though, I would have used the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement as my example, rather than the KKK or neo-nazis.  The gun control movement, while wrong headed, often dishonest, certainly not respecting of the entire Bill of Rights, doesn’t even begin to approach the level of those types of groups on the totem poll of evil.

What we’re looking for is to destroy them as a political movement, and let them settle out on the fringe.  The only thing from preventing that from happening is a gun control friendly media culture, which keeps the issue alive for them even when its at death’s door.