Moms Demand Action attempts “gun-bully” justification for armed guards

A Moms Demand Action follower says it’s their right to have guns to stand up against “gun bullies” (which is what Moms Demand calls gun rights advocates). Which is more prevalent, the comedy or the irony? Message to Moms Demand followers: you’re doing it wrong.

The same twitter account attacked a couple of memes in an apparent attempt to build the case for Moms Demand. It is clear they are pro-gun control. It is not clear whether the account has any official affiliation with Moms Demand, but the rationale behind the attacks seems on par for the anti-gun course.



The first response to a meme that says “Moms Demand Guns Sense: Free people have guns. Slaves do not” is to claim this is false on the flimsy rationale that the Confederacy armed slaves in 1865. The implication is that it’s okay to take and ban guns from free people because slaves – in one single instance in history that anti-gunners can point to–did indeed have guns. Okay then, carry on. Pfft!

But if one thinks about this argument for a moment, it should be clear that this response makes no sense whatsoever. First, it is highly doubtful that the armed Confederate slaves were unsupervised and free to make use of such arms of their own volition. They certainly were not free people; they were still slaves. Secondly, the Confederacy was forcing these slaves to fight against the North, who were trying to free them.

That anti-gun moonbats would suggest that it’s okay to ban guns from free people because the South forced slaves to fight the North is beyond ludicrous. Either such gun control zealots do not think before they speak, or they do think beforehand and still deliberately choose to say such inane things. It’s difficult to say which is the better option.

The second response was to a meme and a Brenner Brief article reporting that Moms Demand Action admitted to using armed security guards. The response says that this is “their right” and that they are “stand[ing] up to gun bullies.” The irony is the apparent blindness to the double-standard and blatant hypocrisy of anti-gun lobbyists carrying guns – even in, or perhaps especially in, the hands of paid staff  – while they work to keep others from using guns.

But secondly, it is also apparently blind to the comedy of an anti-gun rights advocate stating that using a gun is their right. Message to Moms Demand followers: you are making gun rights advocates’ points for them. Gun rights advocates absolutely agree it is a person’s right to have and use guns for their own self-defense. You know, “keep and bear arms.” Thanks!

By Matt MacBradaigh. Matt is a Christian, Husband, Father, Patriot, and Conservative from the Pacific Northwest. Matt writes about the Second Amendment, Gun Control, Gun Rights, and Gun Policy issues and is published on The Bell Towers, The Brenner Brief, PolicyMic. TavernKeepers, and Vocativ.

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This article also appears on The Brenner Brief. (Original publication May 8, 2014).

Anti-gun activist group Moms Demand Action admits to having armed security in another brazen example of the left’s hypocrisy — “for me, but not for thee.”

Erika Soto Lamb, Communications Director for the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign, an effort of newly joined anti-gun groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, admitted in a tweet to conservative pundit Dana Loesch that the Moms Demand Action team at the NRA Annual Meetings has armed security:

What? Armed security?! The hypocrisy seems to never end with anti-gun liberals.

Incredibly, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand, claims the group is not anti-gun. In a Guns.com interview also promoted via tweet by Everytown’s Communication Director, Watts said, “We are in no way anti-gun” (emphasis added). However, in the same interview she said, “It’s no longer possible to ignore the truth that 86 Americans are killed every day with guns” (emphasis added), a statistic that purposely ignores that a full two-thirds of gun deaths are self-inflicted suicides. Moms Demand Action was previously exposed exploiting suicide deaths while simultaneously stating suicide is not their problem:




The claim Moms Demand is not anti-gun also fails the evidence test when one examines Shannon Watts’ tweets about guns and the policy actions Moms Demand has pursued. When a Moms Demand follower asked about a suicide awareness campaign, Watts responded, “Data shows few of daily shootings in the U.S. are due to mental illness. We don’t have more ill people, just more guns.”

Following a Philadelphia shooting, Shannon Watts tweeted, “It’s the guns”:

Shannon Watts and Moms Demand Action’s twitter accounts both bemoaned the deaths following the most recent Fort Hood shooting, which took place in a gun free zone. But then they lobby to create more gun free zones:

Based on evaluating Moms Demand’s actions, one can only conclude they are anti-gun, and not pro-gun rights. Moms Demand Action’s first campaign was to try to get Starbucks to ban guns from its stores (and thereby make it a gun free zone). An effort in which they failed. Their next campaign was to attempt to get Staples to ban guns from its stores. This also failed. They also attempted to get Facebook to ban posts advertising guns for sale or trade. They also failed. They have announced they will target McDonald’s to try to get guns banned from all McDonald’s restaurants.

In one area does the Moms Demand founders’ claim to not be anti-gun hold up to scrutiny: when it comes to their own paid-for armed security. “For me, but not for thee.” “When I need it, it’s fine; when someone else needs it, it’s not fine.” To Moms Demand, Mayors Against Guns (the correct name) and Everytown for Gun Safety, that passed for #gunsense.

By Matt MacBradaigh. Matt is a Christian, Husband, Father, Patriot, and Conservative from the Pacific Northwest. Matt writes about the Second Amendment, Gun Control, Gun Rights, and Gun Policy issues and is published on The Bell Towers, The Brenner Brief, PolicyMic. TavernKeepers, and Vocativ.

Follow Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/2AFight  

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This article also appears on The Brenner Brief. (Original publication April 28, 2014).

Moms Demand Action Admits to Using Armed Security

by Matt MacBradaigh | Apr 28, 2014 | News | 0 comments

Anti-gun activist group Moms Demand Action admits to having armed security in another brazen example of the left’s hypocrisy — “for me, but not for thee.”

Erika Soto Lamb, Communications Director for the Everytown for Gun Safety campaign, an effort of newly joined anti-gun groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, admitted in a tweet to conservative pundit Dana Loesch that the Moms Demand Action team at the NRA Annual Meetings has armed security:

What? Armed security?! The hypocrisy seems to never end with anti-gun liberals.

Incredibly, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand, claims the group is not anti-gun. In a Guns.com interview also promoted via tweet by Everytown’s Communication Director, Watts said, “We are in no way anti-gun” (emphasis added). However, in the same interview she said, “It’s no longer possible to ignore the truth that 86 Americans are killed every day with guns” (emphasis added), a statistic that purposely ignores that a full two-thirds of gun deaths are self-inflicted suicides. Moms Demand Action was previously exposed exploiting suicide deaths while simultaneously stating suicide is not their problem:

The claim Moms Demand is not anti-gun also fails the evidence test when one examines Shannon Watts’ tweets about guns and the policy actions Moms Demand has pursued. When a Moms Demand follower asked about a suicide awareness campaign, Watts responded, “Data shows few of daily shootings in the U.S. are due to mental illness. We don’t have more ill people, just more guns.”

Following a Philadelphia shooting, Shannon Watts tweeted, “It’s the guns”:

Shannon Watts and Moms Demand Action’s twitter accounts both bemoaned the deaths following the most recent Fort Hood shooting, which took place in a gun free zone. But then they lobby to create more gun free zones:

Based on evaluating Moms Demand’s actions, one can only conclude they are anti-gun, and not pro-gun rights. Moms Demand Action’s first campaign was to try to get Starbucks to ban guns from its stores (and thereby make it a gun free zone). An effort in which they failed. Their next campaign was to attempt to get Staples to ban guns from its stores. This also failed. They also attempted to get Facebook to ban posts advertising guns for sale or trade. They also failed. They have announced they will target McDonald’s to try to get guns banned from all McDonald’s restaurants.

In one area does the Moms Demand founders’ claim to not be anti-gun hold up to scrutiny: when it comes to their own paid-for armed security. “For me, but not for thee.” “When I need it, it’s fine; when someone else needs it, it’s not fine.” To Moms Demand, Mayors Against Guns (the correct name) and Everytown for Gun Safety, that passed for #gunsense.

This article was originally published on Brenner Brief. Original publish date Apr 28, 2014. Original author, Matt MacBradaigh.