Gun-Ban Lobby "Merges"
With Numerically-Challenged Moms
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"...Perhaps by absorbing MMM, Brady's group hopes to
fool the general public into believing it is something other than
an advocate of licensing and registration schemes, gun bans, and
other restrictions on law-abiding gun owners..." |
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No, it's NOT from a typewriter
with a nervous condition... |
Sarah Brady's gun-ban lobby, formerly known as HCI, announced
yesterday that it would "merge" with the beleaguered "Million"
Mom March (MMM), uniting two struggling groups with "common
goals" - "goals" that include supporting the passage of laws that
greatly increase restrictions on law-abiding gun owners,
including support of banning firearms. And while Brady
commented, "This alliance sends a clear message that the gun
control movement is uniting and targeted," the union appears more
an absorption of MMM by Brady's group.
The MMM had fallen rapidly from its status as a media darling in
2000, suffering a virtual collapse earlier this year, amid
questions of illegal use of taxpayer funds.
- First, funding from
a few large contributions by wealthy individuals and a grant from
the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund of San Francisco began to dry
up, forcing the "Moms" to lay off 30 of its 35 employees and put
a halt to the formation of any new "chapters."
- The group was
then evicted from the San Francisco office it had occupied for
two years when it was exposed that the anti-gun advocates were
living rent-free in city-owned property.
- Finally, the rallies
scheduled in numerous state capitals and other carefully-selected
areas for this year's Mothers' Day failed to garner much media
attention, as the turn-out in most cases was extremely low. In
some cases, only a handful of people showed up, and some rallies
were simply cancelled. ((Ed. Note: California NRA volunteers
showed up the MMM'ers big time).
The allure of money from Brady's
established list of well-heeled contributors could be the reason
that MMM agreed to surrender its mismanaged remains.
Brady's group, on the other hand, has been suffering somewhat of
an identity crisis, as it has recently undergone its third name
change during its relatively brief existence. The organization
now calls itself the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence,
although many continue to refer to it as HCI or simply the
gun-ban lobby.
Perhaps by absorbing MMM, Brady's group hopes to
fool the general public into believing it is something other than
an advocate of licensing and registration schemes, gun bans, and
other restrictions on law-abiding gun owners. Of course, just
because these two struggling anti-gun organizations have
basically become one, this should not give the pro-gun community
any comfort. These anti-gun extremists still have plenty of
supporters in Congress and the media, and NRA will continue to
take them as the serious threat to our freedom that they are.
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