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Everytown announces list of 130 authors pledged to fight gun violence
guns.com ^ | May, 22, 2017 | Chris Eger

Posted on 05/22/2017 1:08:11 PM PDT by PROCON

The gun control group backed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative last week designed to “harness the power of the literary community to amplify the gun safety movement.”

The new Everytown Authors Council is composed of 130 authors, illustrators and others “deeply connected to the literary community” who have joined the group to help support their work.

“We stand united and will work to reach more people, recruit more supporters and achieve more victories,” says the pledge signed by the authors, which supports expanded background checks and secure gun storage. “While these are just the first steps, we pledge to use our voices wherever and whenever we can, doing our part to help mobilize more Americans to help save lives from gun violence.”

Jodi Picoult, who used to write DC Comics’ “Wonder Woman,” says she joined the council as writers are “singularly suited to speak out on the need for common-sense gun laws,” and “Our job as writers is to get people to engage and to start talking – and this is a conversation we as a nation badly need to have.”

(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...


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KEYWORDS: authors; banglist; everytown; gungrabbers
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Wow, AUTHORS! They're really smart like Hollywood celebrities!

Good grief!

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NRA announces list of 4.25-million members pledged to fight gun control.

1 posted on 05/22/2017 1:08:12 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

RKBA Ping List


This Ping List is for all things pertaining to the 2nd Amendment.

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from the list.

2 posted on 05/22/2017 1:09:43 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

So no more guns in movies and comics, right?


3 posted on 05/22/2017 1:10:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: PROCON
announced a new initiative last week designed to “harness the power of the literary community to amplify the gun safety movement

Great! Because everyone knows that after a night of gangbanging.....The Bloods & Crips want to settle in with a good book and some herbal tea.

4 posted on 05/22/2017 1:10:23 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: PROCON

3 Million Members of M.A.D.D., thus no one should have vehicles.


5 posted on 05/22/2017 1:12:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: PROCON

Not on the list. Still have a lot of guns and bombs in my books.


6 posted on 05/22/2017 1:13:31 PM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: PROCON

How? By putting up more “Gun Free Zone” signs?


7 posted on 05/22/2017 1:13:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: SkyDancer

Perhaps on the cover.


8 posted on 05/22/2017 1:16:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: PROCON

Fight Gun Violence == Disarming Law Abiding Citizens to Lawful Self-Defense


9 posted on 05/22/2017 1:16:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

List at the link. I was going to copy it over but why give them the publicity? I recognized precisely one name on it anyway. And she’s a hack.


10 posted on 05/22/2017 1:17:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: freedumb2003
"3 Million Members of M.A.D.D., thus no one should have vehicles."

What about D.A.M.M*?

(*Drunks Against M.A.D.D. Mothers... hat-tip to Joe Bob Briggs at the Movies circra 1985)

11 posted on 05/22/2017 1:19:01 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: PROCON

12 posted on 05/22/2017 1:20:39 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: PROCON

I bet Seth Anderson Bailey is not on that list.


13 posted on 05/22/2017 1:22:00 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: SparkyBass

>>What about D.A.M.M*?

(*Drunks Against M.A.D.D. Mothers... hat-tip to Joe Bob Briggs at the Movies circra 1985)<<

Let’s cut to the chase: K.D.C.D.* against all humans!

*KillDozer/Christine/Duel


14 posted on 05/22/2017 1:22:08 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: freedumb2003
"*KillDozer/Christine/Duel"

and here I thought I was the ONLY one who remembered KILLDOZER! Ha!

15 posted on 05/22/2017 1:24:15 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: PROCON

Reminds me of years ago when several people were murdered in San Francisco. No guns involved.
The mayor at that time immediately called for more gun control to prevent such crimes in the future.


16 posted on 05/22/2017 1:25:06 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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To: BushCountry
Do you have a disclaimer in the preface which states:

"Keep guns and bombs out of the reach of children?"

17 posted on 05/22/2017 1:26:08 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: SkyDancer

***“Gun Free Zone” signs?***

Like some did back in 1968 during the riots. Didn’t last long.


18 posted on 05/22/2017 1:26:45 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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To: real saxophonist
I bet Seth Anderson Bailey is not on that list.

Yeah. I looked, and oddly, Peter Capstick, Mel Tappan, Jeff Cooper, and Massad Ayoob aren't either. Probably just an oversight.

19 posted on 05/22/2017 1:27:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PROCON

So, the people most responsible for the glorification of gun violence are signing a petition against......gun violence.


20 posted on 05/22/2017 1:29:19 PM PDT by circlecity
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