When Anti-Gunners Say
"Gun Safety," They Don't Mean It
Friday, September 25, 2015
In what can only be described as a blatant display of
hypocrisy, two gun ban groups have started a petition to deny a federal grant
for Project Childsafe, a gun safety program
operated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
This year, for the first time since Barack Obama’s 2008
election, the NSSF has won a U.S. Department of Justice grant, in the amount of
$2.4 million dollars for Project Childsafe. According to NSSF’s website,
this program is “committed to promoting firearms safety among firearms owners
through the distribution of safety education messages and free firearm safety
kits.”
As gun owners, we are all dedicated to safe firearm usage, and NRA is the leading provider of firearms safety training in the world. With tens of thousands of trainers and instructors, NRA provides the curriculum and guidelines that allow millions of Americans to learn how to use and store firearms safely.
NSSF is also dedicated to firearm safety. In
cooperation with their industry partners, including manufacturers, distributors
and dealers, the group promotes numerous programs and materials on safe gun
ownership. Project Childsafe is just one of the programs that NSSF
sponsors, and it is operated in partnership with law enforcement departments
throughout the United States.
Apparently, real dedication to firearm safety is opposed by
two anti-gun groups. The Newtown Action Alliance and the Coalition to Stop Gun
Violence have begun a petition campaign to have the Justice Department rescind
the grant. It seems that all the talk of “firearm safety” and
“responsible gun ownership” from these anti-gun groups is nothing but a
smokescreen.
But this is not surprising. NRA and NSSF spend
millions each year to teach and promote firearm safety -- programs that
actually save lives. For NRA and NSSF, safety isn’t just a political
ruse, it’s a top priority. In contrast, groups like those challenging the
Project Childsafe grant do nothing to promote firearms safety. They hide behind
the term “gun
safety” to fool people about their real intentions: to reduce or
eliminate legal gun ownership.
With the antagonism that the Obama administration has shown
to legal gun owners and any organization that defends the Second Amendment, it
remains to be seen if the grant will be delivered or if anti-gun politics will
win the day.
If these two radical groups are successful, it will only
prove that any talk of gun safety by Obama, his Justice Department or anti-gun groups is just that, empty talk.
National Shooting
Sports Foundation (NSSF)
Orion Strategies
is the lobby firm for the National
Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and was the lobby firm for the Open Society Policy Center.
Note: Open
Society Policy Center is an advocacy affiliate for the Open Society Foundations.
Jonathan
Soros is a director at the Open
Society Policy Center, the vice chairman for the Open Society Foundations, George
Soros’s son, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Alliance for Justice, the American
Constitution Society,
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Sundance Institute.
Robert
Raben was a director at the Alliance
for Justice, a director at the American
Constitution Society, an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the president
of the Raben Group.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration, and an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Raben
Group is the lobby firm for the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun Safety”
group for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, the founder for Everytown
for Gun Safety, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a contributor for Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety”
group for guns.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety” PAC for guns.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration, and an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Michael D. Barnes
was a senior of counsel at Covington
& Burling LLP, and the president for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety” group for guns, and named
for James Scott Brady.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety” group for guns, and named
for James Scott Brady.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, Mario M. Cuomo’s
daughter, and married to Kenneth D. Cole.
Mario
M. Cuomo was Maria Cuomo Cole’s
father, and a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society.
Kenneth
D. Cole is married to Maria Cuomo
Cole, and a trustee at the Sundance
Institute.
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