AGS Publicly Confirms Its Target
Is Not Just Gun Shows
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"...[AGS] actually implied that anyone who opposes the AGS attack on gun
shows supports allowing criminals and terrorists legal access to
firearms..." |
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Matthew Bennett Deputy Assistant to the President
& Deputy Director of
Intergovernmental Affairs
The anti-gun organization
Americans for Gun Safety (AGS) continues
desperately to try to fool the American public into believing it is
something other than another anti-gun lobby, but its actions and words
continue to expose the truth. On Wednesday,
AGS Director of Public Affairs Matthew Bennett - a former White House staffer under Bill Clinton -
and NRA-ILA Executive Director James Jay Baker took part in an
online
discussion regarding the "debate on guns in America," and during this
discussion, Bennett exposed, perhaps accidentally, one of AGS's true
goals.
He revealed that AGS will not be satisfied if it merely
succeeds with its current attacks on gun shows, and he stated one of the
group's ultimate goals is to require a background check on every
transfer of every firearm - even if the transfer takes place in your
living room and involves a sale to your next-door neighbor or a gift to
your son.
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"...[O]ne of the
group's ultimate goals is to require a background check on every
transfer of every firearm - even if the transfer takes place in your
living room and involves a sale to your next-door neighbor or a gift to
your son..." |
While Bennett attempted to regurgitate the tired AGS mantra that it is a
"new type of organization...a centrist, moderate" organization, he
resorted to the same type of extremist rhetoric parroted by other
anti-gun groups. The AGS representative continued to
shamelessly
exploit the terrorist acts of September 11 to promote his organization's
anti-gun agenda, but he took this appalling tactic even further.
Bennett actually implied that anyone who opposes the AGS attack on gun
shows supports allowing criminals and terrorists legal access to
firearms.
He also made the wild claim that U.S. Representative Dennis
Moore (D-Kan.) is pro-gun, although Moore received an "F" rating from
NRA in 2000, along with thousands of dollars from HCI's PAC during the
same election cycle. Hardly pro-gun credentials.
ILA's Baker closed the discussion by pointing out, "AGS is a pet project
of a former member of the Board of Handgun Control (Internet billionaire
Andrew McKelvey ) and is staffed by former members of the most anti-gun
administration in American history. AGS has no membership, has no
instructors, has no safety programs, and presents a false front to the
American people about its true agenda. We would hope that AGS
eventually will admit its aspirations and at that time we will be happy
to debate the issues on their merits, based on fact and not
subterfuge."
If you would like to review the transcripts of this online discussion,
which was hosted by The Hill, just go to
http://www.thehill.com/forum/103101/.
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