Brady Campaign Joins
Media Attack on Oregon Sheriff
by AWR Hawkins 5 Oct 2015
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/05/brady-campaign-joins-media-attack-oregon-sheriff/
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence joined left-of-center media
outlets in their effort to attack a local sheriff from the Oregon county where
the recent mass shooting occurred. As Douglas County Sheriff John
Hanlin is dealing with the aftermath of the violence and helping his community,
the Brady Campaign demanded his immediate resignation due to his opposition to
gun control laws which were passed and signed into law in Oregon earlier this
year.
According to the Brady
Campaign:
John Hanlin should tender his resignation from the
Douglas Country Sheriff’s Office and be immediately replaced as lead
investigator on this case,” said Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence.
Citizens of Oregon voted for the expansion of Brady
background checks in a law signed by Governor Brown this past May. In pledging
not to enforce the new law, John Hanlin has clearly demonstrated that his
political ideology trumps his responsibility to protect his community. The
victims of last week’s shooting and the entire community deserve a thorough
investigation that will get to the bottom of this heinous crime – an
investigation that must be grounded in facts and evidence, not myth and bias.
Brady’s calls for Hanlin’s resignation appear to be a veiled
accusation that he his opposition to expanding background checks in Oregon was
somehow causal in the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting. However, Brady
is ignoring the fact that background checks were passed for all Chris Harper
Mercer’s guns–some by him, some by other family members–so that all of his guns
were purchased “legally.” In truth,
the call for Sheriff Hanlin’s resignation is part of the larger media war being
waged against him because of his opposition to more gun control.
Breitbart News previously reported (linked above) that TIME
magazine, Mother Jones, CNN, NBC, International Business Times,
Yahoo, and the Washington Post are among the outlets reporting on the
sheriff’s pro-Second Amendment views. ThinkProgress published some of the most
pointed criticism of the sheriff, equating his opposition to gun control with
support for anti-government militias.
But Sheriff Hanlin is standing his ground, saying, “My
focus right now is on getting this investigation completed and taking care of
the victims and families of the victims.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence was named for James Scott Brady, and is a “gun
safety” group for guns.
Note: Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence was named for James Scott Brady, and is a “gun
safety” group for guns.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Kenneth
D. Cole is married to Maria Cuomo
Cole, and a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Sundance Institute, the Center
for American Progress, and the Rockefeller
Philanthropy Advisors.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Center
for American Progress Action Fund is an affiliated advocacy group for the Center for American Progress.
Rockefeller
Philanthropy Advisors was a funder for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Think Progress
is a project for the Center for American
Progress Action Fund.
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