I am not so sure that I would call these two
the "leaders"--except in their respective areas of expertise--i.e., Feinstein as a long-time politician, and Brady really just as a figurehead of national standing.
Brady's going to be dead pretty soon, anyway--but I really fear the symbolism the antis will get out of that death. Who was the actor, the Perry Mason Prosecuting Attorney, who did the Public Service Commercials while he was dying of lung cancer?
We should look hard at Josh Sugarman, is at the Violence Policy Center, then into the Johns Hopkins operations--the academics and physicians at that promote epidemiology as a model for the analysis of behavior, and then propose social solutions--the "Public Health Game".
Sugarman, as anyone who's seen Oleg's posters and the movies, knows that he came up with the basic strategy for the latest run at Gun Control, starting about 1987-88, IIRC. He appears publicly occasionally--I heard him on MPR in the recent past--but he appears to be the real genius behind this nightmare.
Then, we should look hard at the Foundations that fund the Brady Bunch/Million Moms, the VPC, and the related operations.
Throw in the liberal press bias, and it is a real nightmare. This spring, with some of the latest RTC victories, is the first time I sense that we have finally started making some real headway--after all, we've seen newspapers finally start printing some pro-gun/anti AWB opinion, and even an editorial or two that finally admit the AWB is based on a faulty model of logic.
A couple of weeks ago a few of us created such a stink in the MPR News Forums about a faulty report on Minnesota Public Radio that the offending article was removed from the MPR News Web Site. Eightteen months of fighting in those liberal forums has resulted in some headway, I think.
Sorry, didn't mean to ramble--but add those names I mentioned to the list, and let's flesh them out.
