Gun Control Group Backs Hillary Clinton and Pledges Help With Primary

[SecularMotion]

A major gun control group has endorsed Hillary Clinton, offering a lift to her campaign in a tighter-than-expected primary race in California and as she tries to pivot to a general election matchup with Donald J. Trump.

The group, Everytown for Gun Safety, announced its endorsement through a statement released early on Friday, the day after its National Gun Violence Awareness Day campaign.

“Gun Sense Voters have a champion in Hillary Clinton,” John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said in the statement. “Our litmus test is simple: does a candidate side with the public or with the gun lobby? Hillary Clinton passes that test with flying colors — pushing back against the N.R.A.’s extreme ‘guns for everyone, everywhere’ agenda, and ushering in a new political calculus that saving lives from gun violence is a winning issue.”

The group said it had waited to fully evaluate the candidates and to learn its members’ preferences before making an endorsement, which comes months after three other gun control groups issued a statement calling Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic rival, the wrong candidate on gun control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-gun-control.html

[auntpurl]

1. k&r!

[aikoaiko]

2. The "N.R.A.’s extreme ‘guns for everyone, everywhere’ agenda" doesn't exist.

Such a description of the NRA is hyperbole and fear mongering.

In truth it is the fear mongering and hyperbole that I despise the most about the NRA even as I agree with protecting access to firearms among the law abiding and mentally stable.

[YouDig]

3. Wow! Defending the NRA? And Berners are supposed to be "progressive"?

[aikoaiko]

4. The 2nd Amendment is a civil liberty worth protecting.

And Protecting civil liberties should be an interest of HRC supporters too.

[YouDig]

6. Trump sure agrees with you. The second is under attack! Do you have like a Bernie AK-47? lol

Thanks for clearing up any ambiguity that Berners are actually progressives.

[SecularMotion]

5. "Everyone Gets A Gun" NRA Ad Campaign

[auntpurl]

8. Wow. This is one of the things

that I really can't wrap my head around after 8 years away from the US. The gun thing, which didn't seem so weird when I left, is just unthinkable to me now. The fact that the US had more mass shootings than there are DAYS IN THE YEAR in 2015, and STILL no reasonable gun control laws passed? That is shocking. And the rest of the world finds it utterly bizarre.

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. Those "mass shooting" numbers are, of course, grossly inflated.

Some guy on Reddit made up an extremely wide-open definition of "mass shootings." Certain media folk ran with this definition (ratings, baby...). Mass shootings of the sort most people identify with the term are far less common. In fact, according to an article in Mother Jones citing the federal government's definition, there were six.

That's six more than there should be...but the real problem with gun violence in the US isn't rampage killings, it's ordinary, garden-variety homicide, sometimes drug- or gang-related, sometimes domestic violence. Moreover, 2/3 of US gun deaths are suicides. We may have a gun violence problem...but we have an even greater problem with neglect of our mental healthcare system.

[auntpurl]

20. I don't think "4 or more people killed" is far off from how reasonable people define a mass shooting

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-america-gun-violence

I agree completely with your point about mental health care, however.

[aikoaiko]

9. You mislabel it as an ad campaign and Cenk edits this part out.

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As I said I hate hyperbole and fear mongering. You have the castle to do that.

[SecularMotion]

11. You're claiming NRA News commentators do not reflect the views of the NRA?

[aikoaiko]

12. Are you not familiar with this editorial concept? Many news outlets have commentators

...whose views are not necessarily those of the hosting organizations.

[SecularMotion]

16. The NRA is not a news outlet, they produce anti-gun regulation propaganda.

The video is posted on the NRA Youtube channel, Own it!

[aikoaiko]

18. The NRA is entitled to have a news division such as it is. See the little watermark and hashtag.

Once again, you can't back up your claims.

[hrmjustin]

7. Defending the NRA on DU!

[aikoaiko]

10. Do you need a glass of water? Are you OK?

There are many things to criticize the NRA about, but they don't have a ‘guns for everyone, everywhere’ agenda".

They have regularly said that they support laws prohibiting violent criminals and those who are dangerous due to mental illness given due process.

[hrmjustin]

15. The nRA is evil and has blood on their hands.

[aikoaiko]

17. They might be evil but perhaps they are the lesser of others evils

And sometimes that's the best you have.

Again, I don't like much of the their hyperbolic, fear mongering distortions just as i don't like the same from gun control organizations.

[hrmjustin]

19. They are the greater evil!

[aikoaiko]

21. Well, we disagree. Now Wayne LaPierre -- he's diabolical.

I really thought the NRA board directors were going to get rid of him after Sandy Hook, but because he crushed the massive gun control push led by Joe Biden he is more powerful and entrenched within the organization than ever.

My only hope now is that he dies of some natural cause.

[jmg257]

13. Ha - better start stocking up now!

Or just wait for ALL those illegal guns to come in from Vermont!