Suggested talking points, information and links to use in pamphlets and media.
I'm not so sure that the average person on the street is aware of who MDA is, they are hearing the line from the media that it is just a grassroots group of concerned moms about guns and who want sensible laws.
Why should we care? Well we need those average people on the street on our side, or at the very least to stay neutral. People have no idea who is behind MDA unless we tell them. However they have heard of Bloomberg before...as the mayor who wanted to ban large soft drinks in New York City.
Well now Bloomberg wanted to ban sodas in New York City and now he is spending his own personal money to fund an anti gun group disguised as a grassroots concerned moms organization.
So the former mayor from New York is funding a group disguised as a concerned moms grassroots group and is trying to set gun control policy in Ohio as well as the rest of the country and he isn't even running for office. An unelected New York resident is trying to set policy for Ohio.
Because some activist group in Texas decided to protest Texas open carry laws by carrying rifles into restaurants in Texas ... some grassroots concerned moms group (funded by Bloomberg) uses that event in Texas as an excuse to pressure Kroger in Cincinnati Ohio to ban firearms in their stores despite the fact no one in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana has seen anyone carrying in a rifle into Kroger....any of the other supermarket and department store chains around Cincinnati.
Some things I would recommend in the pamphlets is to mention the ATF stings that Bloomberg was involved in. I'm sure the average person on the street is unaware of this
SAF ENCOURAGED BY ATF INVESTIGATION OF BLOOMBERG’S VIGILANTE STING
http://www.saf.org/?p=855
“Mayor Bloomberg dispatched private investigators to several states, where they apparently made straw gun purchases in an effort to file civil lawsuits against gun dealers. The mayor refused to turn over alleged evidence obtained during this vigilante operation to ATF or other proper authorities, and instead exploited the affair to advance his own political agenda.
“Nowhere in state or federal statute does the mayor of New York or any other municipality have the authority to launch such a rogue investigation, especially one that extends beyond his jurisdiction,” Gottlieb said. “Our letter to Attorney General Gonzales raised serious questions, and I am now assured that the ATF is looking for some serious answers. Mayor Bloomberg should step forward and provide those answers without delay.
“Instead,” Gottlieb observed, “Bloomberg has beguiled scores of his colleagues to join this anti-gun enterprise. This is an area of serious criminal investigation in which municipal mayors have absolutely no business interjecting themselves, especially for a political sound bite."
Or if that doesn't work how about this?
ATF Probing Mayor Bloomberg's 'Rogue Gun Sting'
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=544842
What does Bloomberg think about the Constitution? Well the following excerpt might be of interest.
"Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Has to Change"
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/f...rpretation-of-constitution-has-to-change.aspx
"According to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the recent terror bombings in Boston require a new interpretation of the Constitution to give the government greater power to protect citizens.
"The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Bloomberg said during a recent press conference. "But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change."
According to a Breitbart.com article, the anti-gun Bloomberg claims that recent attacks on the Second Amendment have left him confident that such re-interpretation is possible.
"The Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws," Bloomberg said. He employs the tactic of incrementally "lowering the bar" by suggesting that Americans should be willing to give up a degree of freedom in exchange for a degree of security.
"It really says something bad about us that we have to do it. But our obligation first and foremost is to keep our kids safe in the schools; first and foremost, to keep you safe if you go to a sporting event; first and foremost is to keep you safe if you walk down the streets or go into our parks," he said. "We cannot let the terrorists put us in a situation where we can't do those things. And the ways to do that is to provide what we think is an appropriate level of protection."
Bloomberg would do well to remember what Benjamin Franklin had to say on the subject back in 1775: "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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I believe some of the information and talking points above would be good pamphlet material to hand out to people on the street, to hand out at companies who caved into MDA, and companies who are under attack by MDA.
One more thing, Does anyone really think MDA is just going to stop at opposing open carry in stores? In case anyone forgot...MDA let the cat out of the bag.....
http://www.fox19.com/story/26453731/group-asks-kroger-to-ban-its-customers-from-openly-carrying-guns
"Ohio's laws for open carry does not require a background check, no permits needed, no age limit, and no training requirements," said Mueller. "
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