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Claims of 'Huge' Anti-Gun Protests Were Lies, Says CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Brady Campaign
news release headline claiming that "huge" crowds turned out across America
for anti-gun protests on Tuesday was both false and misleading, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said this morning.
The news release went out over the national PR Newswire service Tuesday
evening at 9:56 p.m., Eastern Time.
"Careful analysis of news coverage, or the lack of it in the 24 hours
following the Tuesday protests, confirm that these events were pretty much
a bust," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "The biggest crowds reported
were 'about 200' people bused to an event at Lake Barrington, Illinois, and
another in Philadelphia. A Maryland protest outside a District Heights gun
shop drew about 60 demonstrators, and one at Seattle's Green Lake Park
attracted two people who spent 32 seconds lying on the grass. And this was
supposed to be a 'huge' event? That gives a whole new definition of the
term 'lie-in' that was used to describe this protest.
"What this tells us," he observed, "is that the public has grown tired
of rants about the evils of gun ownership, and how gun rights must be
restricted to ensure public safety. The proof of gun control failures is
visible every day. In the wake of Virginia Tech, people are beginning to
understand the insanity of so-called 'gun free zones' that protect nobody
but crazed killers, especially when campus officials do not act quickly.
Americans look at murder and violent crime statistics in Washington, DC and
Chicago and realize that bans on handgun possession by honest citizens in
those cities have been disastrous.
"Americans now see the gun control agenda for what it really is: a
citizen disarmament campaign by Utopian extremists who have built their
movement on false promises, false hopes, false hysteria and false
headlines," Gottlieb stated. "Restrictive gun laws haven't prevented a
single mass shooting, and instead have turned our shopping malls,
universities and public schools into killing grounds. Indeed, there is no
evidence that any of this nation's restrictive gun laws have prevented any
kind of violent crime.
"By contrast," Gottlieb concluded, "right-to-carry statutes,
stand-your-ground laws and tough Three Strikes provisions -- all supported
by the firearms community and consistently, and vigorously, opposed by gun
control fanatics -- have been proven effective. They give honest citizens
the means and legal protections to fight back, and they put criminals on
the run, or behind bars where they belong."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (http://www.ccrkba.org) is
one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms
freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating
grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities
throughout the United States.
It is not at all difficult!
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-30-2007/0004654458&EDATE=
Claims of 'Huge' Anti-Gun Protests Were Lies, Says CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Brady Campaign
news release headline claiming that "huge" crowds turned out across America
for anti-gun protests on Tuesday was both false and misleading, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said this morning.
The news release went out over the national PR Newswire service Tuesday
evening at 9:56 p.m., Eastern Time.
"Careful analysis of news coverage, or the lack of it in the 24 hours
following the Tuesday protests, confirm that these events were pretty much
a bust," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "The biggest crowds reported
were 'about 200' people bused to an event at Lake Barrington, Illinois, and
another in Philadelphia. A Maryland protest outside a District Heights gun
shop drew about 60 demonstrators, and one at Seattle's Green Lake Park
attracted two people who spent 32 seconds lying on the grass. And this was
supposed to be a 'huge' event? That gives a whole new definition of the
term 'lie-in' that was used to describe this protest.
"What this tells us," he observed, "is that the public has grown tired
of rants about the evils of gun ownership, and how gun rights must be
restricted to ensure public safety. The proof of gun control failures is
visible every day. In the wake of Virginia Tech, people are beginning to
understand the insanity of so-called 'gun free zones' that protect nobody
but crazed killers, especially when campus officials do not act quickly.
Americans look at murder and violent crime statistics in Washington, DC and
Chicago and realize that bans on handgun possession by honest citizens in
those cities have been disastrous.
"Americans now see the gun control agenda for what it really is: a
citizen disarmament campaign by Utopian extremists who have built their
movement on false promises, false hopes, false hysteria and false
headlines," Gottlieb stated. "Restrictive gun laws haven't prevented a
single mass shooting, and instead have turned our shopping malls,
universities and public schools into killing grounds. Indeed, there is no
evidence that any of this nation's restrictive gun laws have prevented any
kind of violent crime.
"By contrast," Gottlieb concluded, "right-to-carry statutes,
stand-your-ground laws and tough Three Strikes provisions -- all supported
by the firearms community and consistently, and vigorously, opposed by gun
control fanatics -- have been proven effective. They give honest citizens
the means and legal protections to fight back, and they put criminals on
the run, or behind bars where they belong."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (http://www.ccrkba.org) is
one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms
freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating
grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities
throughout the United States.
