The Other Gun Lobby

[SecularMotion]

Their personal families are shrinking, while their ranks are growing: Families whose loved ones have been killed or wounded by guns.

They vow this time is different. They're no longer a loose patchwork of grass-roots groups that emerge after the latest mass shooting -- only to get outspent by the NRA's war chest, their hopes for "common sense" gun measures dashed.

This time, they have the backing of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his $50 million donation. They are Everytown for Gun Safety, which in 2014 brought under one umbrella Bloomberg's two previous gun groups, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

Their focus is on field operations, to mobilize their 3 million members on this single issue and then get supporters to the polls. They steal tactics from the National Rifle Association and study other groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving that have won victories against massive industries.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/10/us/other-gun-lobby/

[ileus]

1. odd a 1%er footing the bill for gun control...

at least they're finally admitting he's consolidated his astroturf gun ban groups under one umbrella.




Wonder why this 1%er with all his armed guards wants to disarm the rest of us without the luxury of 24/7 armed security. Wonder if he's also footing the bill for his 3 million followers security, or if they're just left to the wolves???

[Human101948]

2. You sound like a raging paranoid...

Or are you living in Somalia? How many shootouts have you been involved in this month?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Oh him? Don't mind him.

He's just a resident DU gun enthusiast who comes to GD only to talk about guns and who's remarkably tone death to the fact that this isn't AR15.com message board.

[Eleanors38]

4. "...comes to GD to talk about guns...?" Since GUNZ is in GUNZ DISCUSSION, people have to....

I see s LOT of posting from controller/banners, here all the time.

You want to put guns back into GD OFFICIALLY? Hey, I support the idea. It seems that way unofficially.

[LanternWaste]

6. Bias often compels something to "seem" such and such a way.

"It seems that way unofficially..."

Bias often compels something to "seem" such and such a way.

[Eleanors38]

7. In other words, you agree?

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. Did not the OP come to GD to talk about guns? Can we say 'double standard'?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Depends if we actually get any productive conversation about it.

If it's just gun porn and NRA-esqe rhetoric (as we always get from that particular poster), however, it's pretty much a dead end.

[friendly_iconoclast]

13. Nevertheless, he has a point about EFGS being top-down and financed by one very rich person

Like them or loathe them, the NRA manages to get their members to cough up at
least $35 per annum. If Wayne Lapierre drops dead tomorrow, the NRA will still go on.

What happens to Bloomberg's "grand alliance" if he dies or loses interest?

The record of the Brady Campaign(s) after the founders passed on should be a sobering example
for gun control advocates- they are a shadow of what they used to be.

[LanternWaste]

5. Odd too that so many progressives defend the conservative PAC called the NRA.

Odd too that so many progressives defend the conservative PAC called the NRA, regardless of any overwrought and petulant concern about wolves...

[hack89]

10. So lets support an authoritanian 1%er republican and his astroturf organization instead! nt

[Rex]

8. Wow...are you worried!? Quick! Go out and buy some more guns and ammo!

Hurry now...

[maxsolomon]

9. It took decades to get to this point

We're 40 years after the radicals took over the NRA in Cincinnati. It's going to take 40 years to get back to some semblance of sanity.

It's going to be a long haul working against the legions of well-armed hysterics who see every initiative as "grabbing" that will leave them "defenseless".

The current situation would have appalled the Founders. Even the Slaveholding ones.