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 deliberatelychoose 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.
Clarke made controversial national headlines last year
when he told residents of his county that calling 911 might not be
effective, and advised them to take gun training courses for
self-defense in the wake of law enforcement layoffs. His speech at the
annual NRA meeting cited several incidents in which guns in the hands of
law-abiding citizens saved their own, or a complete strangers, life.
Clarke said “The armed citizen made America free, and the armed
citizen will keep America free!” Noting frustration at lawlessness, and
honest people’s fear to be safe in their residences, property and
neighborhoods, he said:
“As a career cop of 35 years, I got tired of seeing good
people like you being raped or having guns stuck up against your heads,
and your property taken. I got tired of seeing law-abiding people having
their homes broken into, their cars stolen, being intimidated by thugs
and gangs, and being prisoners in their own homes – afraid to go outside
or let their kids play in front of their house, because their
neighborhoods were under control of the criminal element.”
Clarke decided to “partner” with law-abiding citizens to “go on the
offensive against the criminal element”, adding that to do so, people
needed “the tools guaranteed under the Second Amendment.” Clarke went on
to say that as a law enforcement officer, he calls “the law-abiding
citizen the great equalizer,” and that he “trusts the law-abiding armed
citizen.”
Clarke recounted several stories from his county where people used
firearms to save lives. He told the story of a maintenance worker simply
doing his job who was being “savagely beaten” by 3 suspects, one of
which wielded a club. Clarke said the maintenance worker later told him
he thought “he was going to die.” Fearing for his life, he pulled his
handgun and fired twice, “killing two of the suspects, and saving his
own life.”
In another incident, three masked men, one armed with a gun, “burst
into a tavern, told the patrons to get down on the floor, and announced a
hold-up.” The bar owner grabbed his own firearm from behind the bar,
and killed one of the hold-up men. “The other two fled, like the cowards
that they were.”
In a third incident, a good Samaritan driving home from work stopped
to aid a woman who was being “violently beaten on a sidewalk by a man.”
The good samaritan stopped his car, and told the suspect to stop beating
the woman. The suspect charged the good samaritan, who pulled his gun
from his holster, halting the suspect. “The suspect stopped his advance,
and fled like the coward he was.”
Clarke wrapped up these stories by stating: “Those firearms, in the
hands of law-abiding citizens, saved people’s lives.” Clarke concluded
by calling on citizens to join pro-gun groups, saying “We’re partners
now.” He also warned them that the fight to defend the Second Amendment
will be a tough, never-ending one.
You can watch the speech in its entirety below via The Right Scoop:
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.
Clarke made controversial national headlines last year when he told residents of his county that calling 911 might not be effective, and advised them to take gun training courses for self-defense in the wake of law enforcement layoffs. His speech at the annual NRA meeting cited several incidents in which guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens saved their own, or a complete strangers, life.
Clarke said “The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!” Noting frustration at lawlessness, and honest people’s fear to be safe in their residences, property and neighborhoods, he said:
“As a career cop of 35 years, I got tired of seeing good people like you being raped or having guns stuck up against your heads, and your property taken. I got tired of seeing law-abiding people having their homes broken into, their cars stolen, being intimidated by thugs and gangs, and being prisoners in their own homes – afraid to go outside or let their kids play in front of their house, because their neighborhoods were under control of the criminal element.”
Clarke decided to “partner” with law-abiding citizens to “go on the offensive against the criminal element”, adding that to do so, people needed “the tools guaranteed under the Second Amendment.” Clarke went on to say that as a law enforcement officer, he calls “the law-abiding citizen the great equalizer,” and that he “trusts the law-abiding armed citizen.”
Clarke recounted several stories from his county where people used firearms to save lives. He told the story of a maintenance worker simply doing his job who was being “savagely beaten” by 3 suspects, one of which wielded a club. Clarke said the maintenance worker later told him he thought “he was going to die.” Fearing for his life, he pulled his handgun and fired twice, “killing two of the suspects, and saving his own life.”
In another incident, three masked men, one armed with a gun, “burst into a tavern, told the patrons to get down on the floor, and announced a hold-up.” The bar owner grabbed his own firearm from behind the bar, and killed one of the hold-up men. “The other two fled, like the cowards that they were.”
In a third incident, a good Samaritan driving home from work stopped to aid a woman who was being “violently beaten on a sidewalk by a man.” The good samaritan stopped his car, and told the suspect to stop beating the woman. The suspect charged the good samaritan, who pulled his gun from his holster, halting the suspect. “The suspect stopped his advance, and fled like the coward he was.”
Clarke wrapped up these stories by stating: “Those firearms, in the hands of law-abiding citizens, saved people’s lives.” Clarke concluded by calling on citizens to join pro-gun groups, saying “We’re partners now.” He also warned them that the fight to defend the Second Amendment will be a tough, never-ending one.
You can watch the speech in its entirety below via The Right Scoop:
This article was originally published on Brenner Brief. Original publish date May 1, 2014. Original author, Matt MacBradaigh.
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.
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.
