Posted on 07/09/2021 3:23:29 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
For those looking to shift blame, the coronavirus pandemic has become a popular go-to, and it is no different for the misleadingly-named "Ohioans for Gun Safety" (the so-called "gun safety" group doesn't even contain one single mention of safe gun handling on their website). Organizers told reporters that the current climate Ohio made it just "too difficult."
"Prior to the pandemic we were on-track to submit our citizen-initiated statute for common sense background checks with the necessary signatures to state legislators. Ongoing health and safety concerns mean that large scale signature collection will not be feasible for the foreseeable future."The truth, of course, is that the group began trying more than two years before the pandemic to get their gun control proposal on the ballot. They failed.
The phenomenon of gun ban extremists failing to convince the public on their gun control schemes, then rebranding in hopes that poll-tested language like "common sense" and "gun safety" will fool people into supporting the same rejected ideas, is nothing new.
In 2000, Monster.com billionaire Andrew McKelvey committed more than $12 million toward the creation of the "Americans for Gun Safety." McKelvey had always donated to Handgun Control Inc., but eventually decided that the gun control movement's best chance of success was going to come about by fooling Americans into thinking they were actually pro-gun.
"I told them that Handgun Control was the wrong name. I thought what they were doing was great but I thought it could be done differently," McKelvey once told Reuters News Service. (Handgun Control Inc. did eventually take McKelvey's advice, and changed its name to The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.)
McKelvey's AGS lasted just a few years, having failed in its mission to disguise its gun control agenda in poll-tested language.
But other gun control outfits decided to try McKelvey's strategy.
The anti-gun Joyce Foundation, which once counted Barack Obama among its board of directors, began funding the "Freedom States Alliance," a network of state level gun-control groups which promoted a blog under the equally misleading name "Gun Guys." The once active blog has gone from several posts a week to having not had even one post since 2010, and FSA itself has also disappeared.
Similarly, gun controllers masquerading as pro-Second Amendment rights advocates under the name of American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) folded up shop in 2010, two years after having been used by the media to prop up the notion that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was not a threat to gun rights.
"Ohioans for Gun Safety" was just the latest attempt to rebrand gun control, an idea that has been soundly rejected by voters in this state and across the country, again and again and again.
I guess the present situation of shootings, arson, gangs, looting and murder in various Dem Cities has required these Astrosmurf gun controllers to go out and arm themselves.
Buahahahahahahahahaha!
“For those looking to shift blame, the coronavirus pandemic has become a popular go-to....”
If that doesn’t work, there’s always “climate change”.
Bkmk
***(Handgun Control Inc. did eventually take McKelvey’s advice, and changed its name to The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.)***
HCI statement in 1976
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”
-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview
HCI, around 1984, made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed.
Then Josh Sugarmann tuned in. This has been the mantra ever since.
“ Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons —anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
If the can ever get a ban on a rifle of any type rest assured they will be back for the handguns, and more.
We shoud start a not for profit called Americans for Handgun control and take millions from left wing chumps.
Handgun Control is all about range time and using both hands.
We would endorse any candidate who champions basic universal ammo ( one box of 45 per month fresh from Uncle Sam)
"Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, joined by County Auditor Karl Keith, State Senator Peggy Lehner, and representatives from the advocacy group Ohioans for Gun Safety."(2019)
OHIO PING!
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Another one bites the dust: Astroturf gun control group ceases operations in Ohio
Buckeye Firearms Association ^ | 7:00AM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021 | Chad D. Baus
Posted on 7/9/2021, 6:23:29 PM by COBOL2Java
Giving up State by State initiatives, going National?
***and take millions from left wing chumps.***
There were some “animal rights’ groups, in the 1970s, that did this. Raised lots of money to splurge on luxuries.
“DO SOMETHING!”
That reminds me of an old joke in Mark Twain’s Library of Wit and Humor.
A ship at sea was hit by a violent storm and looked about to sink. The sailors called on the Captain..”PRAY FOR US CAPTAIN!”
Captain: “I ain’t been in a church in forty years! I don’t know how to pray!”
Sailors: “well DO SOMETHING religious!”
So the Captain took up a collection.
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