The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away

[Trebor]

Here's my latest article as the Detroit Gun Rights Examiner.

Please feel free to share the link, but do not repost the complete text as I get paid by the page view and then I would not get paid for my work.

The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away

"As gun rights activists await the upcoming decision in the McDonald vs. Chicago Supreme Court case, new evidence emerges that, in this post-Heller decision world, the public has soured on the bitter taste of gun control."
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[desidog]

I wouldn't say the campaign is withering, just that the popular view has changed.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

I won't be happy until I hear Sarah Brady is withering away for good. I could add several other names to that list.

 

[CoRoMo]

According to the data, they are spending more than they are raising.
Also, their fund raising has dropped to 'lemonade stand' revenues.
Apparently, they've recorded one, single, solitary contribution of $2,500 for this year's election cycle.
Contrast to ten years ago, when their election cycle funds were in the millions of dollars.

They are withering away into the dust bin of history.
That's what lies, cheating and all other forms of dishonesty will do. Good riddance.

 

[Kingcreek]

sounds like Helmke needs to hold a bake sale.

 

[seldomseensmith]

Excellent article, loved your comment at the end of the post.

 

[wally]

Sounds like wishful thinking and seriously premature to me, with California about to pass a ban on unloaded open carry (loaded open carry is already illeagal there)

 

[MichaelK]

I won't be happy until I hear Sarah Brady is withering away for good. I could add several other names to that list.

Let's not be unkind to her. She saw her husband get shot you know. Let's wish that she decides she was wrong and her husband should have been allowed to carry a gun the day that Regan was shot.

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

We can never be satisfied till they go away completely----their side thinks the same way--too bad its unconstitutional.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

Let's not be unkind to her. She saw her husband get shot you know. Let's wish that she decides she was wrong and her husband should have been allowed to carry a gun the day that Regan was shot.

I agree with you to some extent. I do feel bad for her and her husband James Brady. I don't wish that on anyone. On the other hand she has been nothing but a thorn in gun owners side ever since. She's trying to make all us gun owners pay for what one sick individual did. If a deranged person wants to cause harm to someone they will find the means to do it if they are using a firearm, knife or baseball bat. If someone in the crowd had a legally CCW maybe this tragedy could have been stopped. It's time to put the blame where it belongs and let the innocent people keep their freedoms and Constitutional rights.

 

[Domineaux]

Let's not be unkind to her. She saw her husband get shot you know. Let's wish that she decides she was wrong and her husband should have been allowed to carry a gun the day that Regan was shot.

I agree with you to some extent. I do feel bad for her and her husband James Brady. I don't wish that on anyone. On the other hand she has been nothing but a thorn in gun owners side ever since. She's trying to make all us gun owners pay for what one sick individual did. If a deranged person wants to cause harm to someone they will find the means to do it if they are using a firearm, knife or baseball bat. If someone in the crowd had a legally CCW maybe this tragedy could have been stopped. It's time to put the blame where it belongs and let the innocent people keep their freedoms and Constitutional rights.

Amen to that!

 

[Texshooter]

Perhaps they don't feel the need anymore if the marxist in chief gives away our rights by joining the u.n. small arms treaty.

Best stand tall.

 

[Patriotme]

I'm seeing an increasing trend in gun owners supporting gun bans.....for the other guy. We've always had those that had no problem banning "Black Rifles" or "Assault Weapons." Some gun owners were against "Saturday Night Specials" or whatever guns they didn't have. This was very troublesome but you could sometimes explain that a bayonet lug and pistol grip doesn't make a gun anymore deadly than a lever action hunting rifle. You could also explain that you should have to be wealthy enough to afford a $600 Sig to be able to defend yourself. These short sighted gun owners would often see the light with a little more knowledge.
What I'm seeing today, and I'll say that it's mainly from African-Americans, is an acceptance of gun bans if they're only effecting the other guy.
They support gun bans in Chicago and DC because the crime rate is so bad and they have "To do something." They have no problem with a Mayor and City Council stripping away Constitutional Rights for other people. Nevermind that decades of bans haven't worked yet. I don't really know how to educate these gun owners. They know what they know in spite of what's real.
Answers?

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

There's no answers. You can't fix stupid. I had someone just a week ago say they were for citizens having the right to defend themselves and own guns. The next sentence was they should outlaw the automatic assault rifles.Go figure. The one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

Perhaps they don't feel the need anymore if the marxist in chief gives away our rights by joining the u.n. small arms treaty.

Best stand tall.

THIS CAME RIGHT FROM THE NRA.
Hillary Clinton And The UN Arms Trade Treaty Rumor



Friday, May 28, 2010

We continue to receive numerous inquiries regarding UN international treaties, and their impact on our Second Amendment rights. The latest rumor making its way around the Internet claims that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually signed a UN small arms treaty.

Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.

As we noted in an update from last November, the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be drafted between now and 2012, and even if signed, would not take effect in the U.S. until it was ratified by the Senate.

Please rest assured that, as we said in November, NRA will be actively involved in this process and will oppose any treaty that would attempt to impose limits on our Second Amendment rights. In the meantime, we urge gun owners to follow this issue in NRA's magazines and NRA-ILA's Grassroots Alerts. We also urge gun owners not to circulate misinformation on this issue.

 

[bthest86]

If someone in the crowd had a legally CCW maybe this tragedy could have been stopped.It's time to put the blame where it belongs and let the innocent people keep their freedoms and Constitutional rights.

There was at least a dozen armed policemen and secret service agents in that crowd/general area. One of them was even carrying an Uzi. Hinckley still got off six shots. Concealed carry is great but I don't think it would have helped Mrs. Brady's husband. Three seconds isn't a very long time to react.

 

[happygeek]

Let's not be unkind to her. She saw her husband get shot you know.

I've had two family members get slammed by drunk drivers, and one of them was partly disabled for the rest of his life, but I'm not out there waging some misguided crusade to take away everyone's right to own a car or drink booze (neither of which are Constitutional rights even).

I really have no sympathy for the woman. She's at best a misguided idiot and at worst trying to create the conditions for a tyrannical government to take hold. Either way motives wise, she lost any sympathy I might have for her the minute she started waging her crusade to take away everyone's God given rights.

 

[Buck Snort]

Ruger Redhawk wrote: "She's trying to make all us gun owners pay for what one sick individual did. If a deranged person wants to cause harm to someone they will find the means to do it if they are using a firearm,knife or baseball bat. If someone in the crowd had a legally CCW maybe this tragedy could have been stopped."

There were SEVERAL people present who were carrying concealed and were specifically trained to thwart such an attack, they're called the Secret Service and their job is to protect the president. I can only assumed they failed miserably.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Let's not be unkind to her. She saw her husband get shot you know.

My father and stepmother were firearm homicide victims.

My unlce emptied his own head with a 9mm

I was standing right next to a friend when he accidentally shot himself in the face with a .22; could have been me.

I don't buy for one minute that being a victim of or witnessing injury or death by firearm warrants the hatred of an inanimate object, one that can just as easily help me avoid becoming a victim.

Other members of my family (New Yorkers ) did take the anti gun approach after those incidents. For being college educated, they're pretty dim bulbs in certain respects.

My sister and I went the other way. Secure our homes, have an alarm system (mine is four legged and quite large) and arm ourselves to the teeth.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

You can't fix stupid.

Amen!

I'll also add that you can't fix dogmatic. Most anti-gunners, like any political radicals, spout the dogma they hear from the "leaders" and "thinkers" behind any movement. They seldom have any grasp of the reality of the issue, but become determinedly entrenched in an ideology because someone sold the "idea" to them.

If they listened to reason they would be forced to question their beliefs, and most are too arrogant to even consider they might be wrong (think Mayor Daley of Chicago here).

Most reasonable people, when exposed to new information, arguments, data, etc. that conflicts with one of their views, will stop to sort out the new information. Sometimes they stick to their original views and sometimes they change their views. That's being reasonable.

Don't look for much reason or any rational thinking among the doggedly anti-gun. It's why there is never much public debate on the subject.

As far as Sarah Brady is concerned, she has built her entire identity around being the leader of the anti-gun movement's most persuasive element. She will never recognize the flawed reasoning that drives her, because to do so would be to destroy the identity she has created for herself.

KR

 

[danprkr]

It is never good news for any organization when they spend more than they take in. Matters not whether it's your family, a Fortune 100 company, certain federal governments we can think of, or the Brady Campaign.

Personal sympathies or not regarding Sarah Brady and her plight, for gun rights it is a good thing that they're going broke. But, we still have to be vigilant. An organization has/is going broke. The sentiment is still out there, and we have to on the look out for it to rise again.

 

[Sebastian the Ibis]

I'm glad to see that Paul Helmke is getting paid what he deserves

 

[alohachris]

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

 

[kmcintosh78]

All Liberal ideas and programs go bankrupt. Some just take more time then others.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

Ruger Redhawk wrote: "She's trying to make all us gun owners pay for what one sick individual did. If a deranged person wants to cause harm to someone they will find the means to do it if they are using a firearm,knife or baseball bat. If someone in the crowd had a legally CCW maybe this tragedy could have been stopped."

There were SEVERAL people present who were carrying concealed and were specifically trained to thwart such an attack, they're called the Secret Service and their job is to protect the president. I can only assumed they failed miserably.

I stand corrected. I wasn't thinking about the police and secret service. I was thinking of other cases where if someone had been armed chances are the crime would have been stopped. Buck snort and bethest86 I do agree with both of you.I just wasn't on the same page you guys are.

Sarah Brady is a evil or hateful woman as far as I'm concerned.She doesn't care what wake she leaves trying to acheive what she wants or thinks is right.


President Reagan was shot and wounded. He didn't declare war on gun owners and he was allot better position then S.B is. I won't apologize for my original comment...........

"I won't be happy until I hear Sarah Brady is withering away for good" her and several others that has been nothing but a PIA to gun owners. It will be a happy day when the Brady Campaign is added to the history books. Until then we can't let our guard down.