Folks:
This information comes from a group called
PAX ASK (Asking Saves Kids).
They are backed by left wing antigun groups.
PAX was created by an ad agency to change the gun ownership battlefield from the political arena to the health issue arena.
The idea that it is just doing it "for the kids" safety ploy.
Do a search on GOOGLE and see all the stuff that comes up.
PAX ASK uses many many venues to spread it's lies.
Please read bellow to see what I sent to a local TV station.
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Channel 6:
I saw a PSA type PAX ASK segment on you channel today and was not happy!
Why do you broadcast such "propaganda"?
What age ranges are included in the definition of "child".
Will you be doing a PSA type ASK program for "matches" in the homes of your children's friends and your neighbors?
What about one for automobiles? National statics show that automobiles are extremely dangerous and the right to own and drive an automobile is not in the Bill of Rights.
Even better, an ASK campaign to find out if your children's friends parents have one of the "Naughty" channels on their cable service. We must protect the children.
The NRA has a program that is much better known and teaches children not to touch guns. It also teaches them what to do if they find or see a gun. When will you be broadcasting an "Eddie Eagle" PSA segment?
"PAX does not engage in political lobbying."
--It’s just supported by organizations with major political lobbing
efforts.
"Instead, PAX works to shift public perception of gun violence from being apolitical debate to being what it really is, an urgent crisis of public health and safety - a crisis with practical solutions that all Americans, including gun owners, can support."
-- They shift perception through lies. They label it a crisis so uninformedpeople swallow their lies. Assuming gun owners will demonize themselves islaughable. Gun violence is not an urgent crisis, accidental deaths byfirearms is at a 20 year low."
Thank you for your time,
Mr. Tom
PS: Please read the following reference PAX.
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“PAX: Ask Campaign†to Invade Your Privacy
By: Garry Harvey
" It never seems to amaze me that just when some “gun violenceâ€organization is debunked for using misinformation another one is created. Ihave found just one such organization and at first look it seems different.
Their site,
http://www.pax.com says this.
propaganda
--TRUTH
"PAX does not engage in political lobbying."
--It’s just supported by organizations with major political lobbing efforts.
"Instead, PAX works to shift public perception of gun violence from being apolitical debate to being what it really is, an urgent crisis of public health and safety - a crisis with practical solutions that all Americans,including gun owners, can support."
--They shift perception through lies. They label it a crisis so uninformedpeople swallow their lies. Assuming gun owners will demonize themselves is laughable. Gun violence is not an urgent crisis, accidental deaths by firearms is at a 20 year low.
"Working with leading <anti-gun> organizations and <anti-gun> individuals in the fields of public health, <anti-gun> media, and <anti-gun> entertainment, PAX creates <anti-gun> media-driven public health campaigns that make the idea of preventing gun violence compelling and accessible to everyone <anti-gun>."
Make no mistake, PAX is a puppet of the extreme anti-firearm left. This puppet's job is to encourage invasion of the personal privacy of those Americans who choose to own firearms and make those who do appear evil.
They act harmless right, that’s until I began to read their ASK Campaign Help Kit. They claim not to be anti-gun but one of the tools that anti-gun rights organizations use is emotional hype, they feed you a sad story of how little Johnny was shot while playing with an evil gun. Then they tell you that if only all guns were banned this would not have happened. Guess what,
the first thing you will come across in there so-called “Help Kit†is just such a story. Read further and you come to a “Facts†section. Their stats are the same ones used over and over again by such fanatical anti-gun organizations as The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly Handgun Control Inc.) and Violence Policy Center, just regurgitated over
again.
propaganda
--TRUTH
"Over 3,500 people under the age of 20 are killed by gun violence every year." - PAX
--This includes suicide, self-defense, and accidents. Gun violence under most people’s definition entails murder through criminal use. In 1998 there were 866 accidental firearms deaths out of roughly 270,298,524 citizens. That’s 3.2 Millionths of one percent that means you are more likely to die from a fall in your home than to be accidentally shot.
"That means that every 24 hours another 10 children and teens die from guns." - PAX
--The 10 children a day stat is bogus. Again, they are using the sum of every death where a gun was used even criminals shot by police officers. Suicide has not been affected by gun-control in other counties that have instated it, why should we be different.
"Often, gun violence among youth, including accidents, suicides and homicides occurs because a child had access to a firearm that was brought into the home by an adult." - PAX
--Gun accidents among youth will always occur when the youth is not proficient in how to handle the weapon safely. A firearm in the home has nothing to do with suicides, countries such as Japan have a high suicide rate but firearms are scarce. A firearm in a law-abiding home has nothing to do with criminal use of a firearm, criminals will always have a gun and to suggest that gun ownership causes a child to become a criminal means that
condoms make sex, knives make stabbings, and fists make fights.
"Over 40% of American homes with children have a gun and many are left unlocked and loaded." - PAX
--Which is perfectly OK, you have the right to do so, young adults in the home should be proficient in the safe use of arms. Parents have a responsibility to do so.
"Unfortunately, many parents think that a gun in the home is protective rather than dangerous. In reality, a gun in the home is 22 times more likely to kill or injure a friend or family member than an intruder." - PAX
--Actually a firearm in the home is protective. This stat was drawn from <Kellermann Arthur & Reay Don, "Protection or peril? An analysis of firearms related deaths in the home> Not only is Kellermann's methodology flawed, butusing the same approach for violent deaths in the home not involving a firearm, the risk factor more than doubles from 22 to 1, to 99 to 1. (
http://www.guncite.com/) You are three times more likely to survive home invasion with a firearm.
Their answer to this mythical problem is to “ASK†you, the gun owner, if a gun in your home.
propaganda
--TRUTH
"ASK! If there is not a gun in the home, that’s one less thing you have to worry about." - PAX
--“That’s none of your business.†Is my ideal response, the nosey parent can either join his child at my house or can keep his child at home.
"If there is a gun, make sure that the gun is stored unloaded and locked, ideally in a gun safe, with ammunition locked separately." - PAX
--That way even the responsible adult will not have immediate access to it. God forbid you save a life when a thug is after your family.
"Hiding guns is not enough." - PAX
--Right, carrying your pistol in its holster insures that there is absolutely no way the child cannot access it without your knowledge.
"There are countless tragic stories of kids finding guns that parents thought were well hidden." - PAX
--Fact: you have a 1 in 3 millionth chance of being accidentally shot.
“Curiosity killed the catâ€, simply teach your child about firearms and he will have no curiosity to search for them.
"If you have any doubts about the safety of someone’s home, you can invite the children to play at your house." - PAX
--That’s nice, my child will enlighten yours to the socialist roots of gun control in America and how you breed fear. They can also discuss the propaganda you spread by following PAX propaganda.
PAX is so nice that they even tell you how to ask and what to do when a parent become defensive, like it’s a bad thing. They tell you what to say when a parent feels it’s none of your usiness, or when a parent says they trust their child. This book should be called “PAX: ASK Campaign, Real Solutions for Anti-Gun Americansâ€. The real kicker to this document is the last page which includes a printable sign that says “Ask your neighbor if
they have a gun in there home or dress your kids appropriately†below which is the picture of a child with oversized body armor on. The poster clearly demonizes gun-owning neighbors as inherently reckless, inherently criminal, and inherently uncaring for the lives of children.
In summary PAX is a puppet of the anti-gun organizations that, through indirect suggestions, and under the cloak of “protecting the childrenâ€, attempts to demoralize the great institution of firearms ownership in a FREE America. "
